Ten questions you can send to every sitting MP
NEXT year, a general election is due.
Like many readers of The Light, I will not be rushing to the polling station.
For the first time, I am minded to stay at home. Yes, there are genuine alternatives to the mainstream uniparty', such as David Kurten's Heritage Party and Robin Tilbrook's English Democrats, but the mountain may be too steep to climb.
Nonetheless, we are supposed to be represented by our constituency MPs, whichever party they belong to. They should address the concerns of all residents, not only their voters. I suggest, well before an election is announced, testing your MP's reasoning and resolve.
In the fourth year of the present parliament, plenty of time has elapsed on which to evaluate your MP's performance - either by omission or commission: do they blindly follow their party line, or do they think for themselves?
Let's give them a chance to tell us where they stand on the big issues of the day, by challenging them with a series of questions that they have no excuse to sidestep.
I'm thinking of all those policies imposed by a Conservative government, but typically supported across the green benches, that nobody voted for.
Did you vote Conservative in December 2019, expecting some kind of social and economic conservatism, but are now feeling betrayed? Are you a Labour follower, wondering why almost all their current ideas seem to be against the interests of ordinary voters? Or perhaps a Scottish nationalist, aghast at the SP's diversion into woke puritanism?
Since the last election, we've seen dramatic changes to our society, institutions and culture.
We didn't vote for authoritarianism in the guise of public health; coercive mass injections of an untested medical product; road closures for a dubious climate crisis; manufactured food shortages; unlimited illegal immigration; constant promotion of gender ideology and critical race theory, and the destruction of our heritage. And we certainly didn't vote for war against Russia.
Here is a template, which may be sent by constituents from Lewis in the Outer Hebrides to Lewes in Sussex:
Dear [MP]
As a general election will soon be held, I would be most grateful if you would inform me of your own view on the following matters, all of which are of considerable concern and cost to your voters:-
Do you believe that there is a climate crisis?
Do you believe that covid-19 was a deadly pandemic?
Do you believe that lockdown was necessary in 2020-2021?
Do you believe that the covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective?
Do you support billions of pounds of military supplies and indirect or direct involvement of our armed forces in the war in Ukraine?
Do you regard the tens of thousands of people crossing the English Channel and entering the country illegally as 'refugees'?
Do you believe that it is safe for dozens of undocumented male migrants to be housed in our towns?
Do you support the teaching of transgender ideology to schoolchildren?
If you do not agree with any of the above, what are you doing to oppose such policies?
Finally, what is a woman?
I'm sure that readers will have many more questions of their own, but for consistency, I suggest using this version only: this will enable wider analysis of the state of our democracy if it can still be described as such).
Any response will be useful, whether it's the usual vague cautiousness (thereby failing to answer a straight question), or a splurge of wokeness and standard responses that toe the official party line.
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Please send any MP's response to the thelightpaper@protonmail.com, for the attention of Niall McCrae.
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