GOVT MIS-USING POLICE COMMISSIONER ELECTION FUNDS for EU PROPAGANDA

 

The Cabinet Office refused to spend what they claimed was £9 million on an information booklet for the Police Commissioner Elections which was recommended by the Electoral Commission, but instead it is set to waste £9 million on a booklet of propaganda for the European Union about which the Electoral Commission has stated as:- “We don’t think the government should have done it, but it’s not illegal,” and that:- “Electoral Commission recommended that the Government should conduct no taxpayer funded advertising”.

Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats said that:- “In September 2015 I wrote to ask the Government to do a Mayoral style booklet for the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and wrote that:

“the Government has neglected to properly consider and apply the Electoral Commission’s conclusions in their report dated March 2013 that there must be a Mayoral style booklet delivered to each elector. Please could you let me know what you are proposing to do to sort out this mess?”

On the 29th February 2016 David O’Gorman of the Cabinet Office’s Elections Division replied to me stating that despite:-

“the Electoral Commission’s recommendation to provide printed booklets of candidate election addresses there are no plans to provide the booklets to all eligible households in May 2016, given it is estimated that to do so would cost up to £9m.”

Robin Tilbrook continued:- “So it is now crystal clear that this is a government which refused to spend £9 million on a Mayoral style booklet which was recommended by the Electoral Commission to enable the Police Commissioner elections to be conducted fairly. Instead it is determined misuse that £9 million to try to unfairly skew the results of the EU referendum. This is directly against the Electoral Commission’s advice. This is a striking illustration of the rottenness at the heart of the British Government and, as the old saying goes:- “A fish rots from its head”!”

Robin Tilbrook

Chairman,

The English Democrats,

Quires Green, Willingale, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0QP

Tel: 01277 896000

Mobile : 07778 553395

Blog: http://robintilbrook.blogspot.co.uk/

Corbyn’s election corrupts the established British Parliamentary system.

Political parties are entitled to elect/select their leaders as they wish, but Jeremy Corbyn’s election corrupts the established British Parliamentary system. 

There are parties which do not have a single Member of Parliament. Until fairly recently (2010) the Greens had none and, until August 2014, UKIP also had none, its first (the Conservative MP Bob Spink who defected in 2008) having lost his seat at the next general election in 2010. However, for political parties which do have more than two MPs, the long established practice was for MPs only to elect THEIR leader, the leader of their respective parliamentary parties, which was consistent with the constitutional practice whereby the Sovereign sends for the ‘member who could command a majority in the House’ to charge with forming a government.

The Labour Party’s arrangements fail to distinguish between leadership of the Parliamentary Labour Party and leadership of the Labour Party at large. John Major drew attention to this distinction a few years ago in 1995 when, as prime minister, he resigned as leader of the Conservative Party but not as prime minister. SEE: John Major ~ Wikipedia

Now we have a situation in which a MP not elected solely by a majority of the Parliamentary Party but by an immensely larger and undefined group of people could become the British Prime Minister! In reality, Labour Party MPs have no legal or, I assert, moral requirement to accept Jeremy Corbyn as their parliamentary leader.

Interestingly, there are now reports of the New Deputy Labour Leader, Tom Watson, being  concerned about  Labour MPs’ opposition to Corbyn.  SEE: Tom Watson worried about Labour MPs sniping at Jeremy Corbyne

AND

Give Jeremy Corbyn time, Tom Watson tells MPs

The question is whether Labour MPs have the courage of their personal convictions and will reject the Labour Whip under Corbyn? Were a majority of the current Labour Parliamentary Party to elect another leader, the position of the Labour Party vis-a-vis the two groups of Labour MPs would be far from straightforward.

More seriously, if the practice of electing leaders of the UK’s parliamentary parties by huge and undefined electorates is accepted, there is little to stop it being extended further and being justified with absurd claims of it being greater democracy. Just how will electors in England react if a daft Labour Party invites electors from all parts of the EU to participate in electing its leader  . . . all in the cause of greater democracy you understand!

The sad thing is that such a development would be consistent with the absurd machinations of the EU and should not be dismissed lightly. One need only call to mind the unwanted and wasteful, economy distorting butter and beef mountains, the milk and wine lakes (and, more currently, the success of the Schengen Agreement in creating mass migration) to understand that anything bizarre and undesirable is more than possible! Just as the UK enables representatives from small countries with distorted agendas to gain power and ascendancy over a much larger nation, the EU facilitates the same phenomenon on a much larger scale. To think such occurrences are (mis)represented as being ‘democratic’! In a truer democracy, those being governed would be able collectively to rid themselves of such unrepresentative incompetents!