"MPs must be obliged to obey their constituents" is not a demand that can be raised in a community which for centuries has cherished the ideal of the "freeborn Englishman". At least I hope it cannot.
I completely disagree with you in the case of MPs.
MPs are public servants, and accordingly have special duties.
On standing for election, MPs will have voluntarily given promises to their constituents that they will take certain action if they are elected. Those promises should be viewed as contractual obligations to their constituents.
If they are elected, they should be required to fulfil those promises. To that extent they should made to obey their constituents.
The role of MP should be redefined from being the unregulated "representative" of their constituents and free of all legal duties to their constituents (as at present), to being the legally contracted "delegate" of their constituents and so required to do what they promised when they were elected. Their role should be in the nature of any professional consultant to a client.
It is astonishing that we allow MPs to be free of any responsibility for what they promised. That is why the constitution is irretrievably broken. That is why those who control political parties (and their MPs) have been able to destroy our culture and civilisation over the last 60 years.
"Only a system where Government policies reflect the aggregated priorities of the citizens - where all citizens can tell the Government what to do – can claim to be a democracy fit for the 21st century."
I agree.
There is no such democracy under the present Political Party/Establishment Media set up; we have ended up with a fraud where MPs do not have to consider the views of their constituents. There is real outrage building up against this situation.
I therefore strongly agree with you that there should be a move from the present "centralised representative democracy" to a "decentralised democracy".
There must be a fundamental and permanent transfer of real power from the British Ruling Elite to individual British Citizens.
There must be a complete change.
Use of referendums as in the Swiss constitution although very desirable would not be a complete answer for this country, as the poison of the UK Political Party system goes too deep.
In my view the only way to achieve this is to abolish the UK Political Party system altogether and make all MPs independent but contractually required to fulfil "Delegated Duties" (as defined) to their constituents. Constituents would be legally entitled to remove their MP directly if they failed to perform their "Delegated Duties". This is Direct Democracy.
MPs must be required to obey their constituents.
This transfer of real power to individual British Citizens would arguably constitute the most significant constitutional reform since the Civil War in the 17th Century. And the time for it is now.
I explain these proposals in greater detail in the following article:
"MPs must be obliged to obey their constituents" is not a demand that can be raised in a community which for centuries has cherished the ideal of the "freeborn Englishman". At least I hope it cannot.
I completely disagree with you in the case of MPs.
MPs are public servants, and accordingly have special duties.
On standing for election, MPs will have voluntarily given promises to their constituents that they will take certain action if they are elected. Those promises should be viewed as contractual obligations to their constituents.
If they are elected, they should be required to fulfil those promises. To that extent they should made to obey their constituents.
The role of MP should be redefined from being the unregulated "representative" of their constituents and free of all legal duties to their constituents (as at present), to being the legally contracted "delegate" of their constituents and so required to do what they promised when they were elected. Their role should be in the nature of any professional consultant to a client.
It is astonishing that we allow MPs to be free of any responsibility for what they promised. That is why the constitution is irretrievably broken. That is why those who control political parties (and their MPs) have been able to destroy our culture and civilisation over the last 60 years.
"Only a system where Government policies reflect the aggregated priorities of the citizens - where all citizens can tell the Government what to do – can claim to be a democracy fit for the 21st century."
I agree.
There is no such democracy under the present Political Party/Establishment Media set up; we have ended up with a fraud where MPs do not have to consider the views of their constituents. There is real outrage building up against this situation.
I therefore strongly agree with you that there should be a move from the present "centralised representative democracy" to a "decentralised democracy".
There must be a fundamental and permanent transfer of real power from the British Ruling Elite to individual British Citizens.
There must be a complete change.
Use of referendums as in the Swiss constitution although very desirable would not be a complete answer for this country, as the poison of the UK Political Party system goes too deep.
In my view the only way to achieve this is to abolish the UK Political Party system altogether and make all MPs independent but contractually required to fulfil "Delegated Duties" (as defined) to their constituents. Constituents would be legally entitled to remove their MP directly if they failed to perform their "Delegated Duties". This is Direct Democracy.
MPs must be required to obey their constituents.
This transfer of real power to individual British Citizens would arguably constitute the most significant constitutional reform since the Civil War in the 17th Century. And the time for it is now.
I explain these proposals in greater detail in the following article:
https://TheCounterRevolution.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/TCR/Article-The-Political-Party-system-must-be-abolished-(April-2024).pdf