NOW the general election is over I will reflect on the sad fact that a manifesto means MPs can do as they want to do rather than what us, the general public, write and ask them to do.
Sadly our local MPs will now use their manifesto against your personal letters or emails requesting change. However, it should really and correctly be by the actual number of letters written by us, the general public, who write to them in this present time of elected office.
It is not about them or their manifesto. That got them elected as that was an election campaign and different to office and serving us, the community.
If more people actually write objecting to things, our MPs should respect the effort and act accordingly. However, at present they fall on their manifesto.
This policy is flawed and not democratic and fails to enable challenges to poor policies or manifesto mandates. I can’t see everyone actually believing or agreeing to everything that is in a manifesto.
Everyone’s needs are different so we must get our MPs to grow up and respect freedom of speech and allow the effort of letters and effort to be respected to challenge poor policies.
The MPs should remember they are a servant, not the king or leader. We the public are the monarchy and we hold the sword.
A manifesto can’t be taken as policy, it has to be challenged and debated on every individual point and that can only be done in the correct allowed form of people writing to their MPs.
We live in a democratic society. We don’t need terrorism to change our policies, we need people to do ask in writing and not by the silent form of votes that the majority of MPs use as a excuse.
We need to now hand our MPs the work we want them to do and not the work they want to do.
Mr Andrew Hungerford
c/o Dalwood Close
Dinton