Monday, 5 December 2011

Mr Whippy

Labour MP Tom Watson has just summed up the state of our so-called representative democracy in just one single tweet:

One would like to think he was voting because he was swayed by the arguments, because it was an issue of conscience or, heaven forbid, it was on behalf of his constituents.

But no... it's more important to remember if the vote is whipped and (presumably) vote accordingly to party orders.
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6 comments:

  1. TheBoilingFrog5 December 2011 at 19:08

    @JiC Harsh but true :-)

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  2. WitteringsfromWitney5 December 2011 at 19:21

    Be fair, it may be his love of sado-masochism is not that deeply ingrained?

    I suppose it also depends whether Caroline Flint was doing the whipping - or Harriet, or Yvette, one of the Eds, or even Chris Bryant.......?

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  3. TheBoilingFrog5 December 2011 at 19:27

    @WfW You just prompted thoughts in my head that I'd rather you hadn't...ergh!!!

    :-)

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  4. Anonymous5 December 2011 at 19:52

    Oh man, this fat computer game playing poofter is a shit-for-brains!

    The parliament really went down hill when they let people like that in!

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  5. Anonymous5 December 2011 at 20:07

    How on Earth do these people find themselves in our Parliament.

    As you say, it just about sums up our democracy now TBF.

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  6. TheBoilingFrog5 December 2011 at 20:27

    @Anon and @BJ couldn't agree more

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