MPs forget that they’re here to serve the people
Your excellent Comment page last week rightly boiled down the Brexit situation to ‘Parliament vs the People’. And the brilliant piece by John Gray showed how the EU referendum has exposed the enormous gulf that now exists between Westminster and those it is supposed to serve.
Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as ‘a government of the people, by the people, for the people’. I’m sure there would be some in the House of Commons, Speaker John Bercow included, who would define it as a government by politicians, of politicians, for politicians. Roy Daniels, Luton
I find it very strange how hypocritical, anti-democratic MPs are prepared to accept a majority in the tens in the Commons and yet are not prepared to accept a majority of tens of thousands from the people.
So it’s democracy when MPs vote but not when the people vote. Perhaps it’s time to change our democracy and get rid of MPs. J. Moffatt, Stockport
This Parliament is not obstructing ‘good government’ but attempting to obstruct possibly the worst government we as a nation have ever known in our modern history.
It is a government hinting without shame that it has scant regard for our hard-won liberties, and anybody with any sense of historical perspective must see that the membership of the Commons must stand up to this potentially dangerous executive. David Clarke, Worthing
It’s sad to think that the one Government organisation we could all do without at this moment is Parliament. What’s the point of voting if we are ignored? Mick Downes, Shropshire
All those people wondering why our MPs can’t see that taking No Deal off the table leaves us without a negotiating position are missing the blindingly obvious.
Our self-serving, undemocratic MPs don’t want to leave the EU. K. Bennett, Fowey, Cornwall
Boris Johnson lost his first six votes in Parliament. He lost his small working majority and then ejected a number of MPs. Dominic Cummings is the reputed mastermind behind this disastrous Brexit strategy. Why is he still there? Andrew Milroy, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
The mess has been created by the Conservatives. They elected Boris Johnson knowing his policy of leaving the EU without a deal. Ian Walton, Bridgwater, Somerset
The SNP has spared no effort to highlight the worst-case scenario of No Deal. So why not set out the worst-case scenario of independence. We face super austerity, but will there also be visas to enter England, power cuts, shortages? William Loneskie, Lauder, Berwickshire
I used to tune in to The Goon Show on the radio. Now it’s Yesterday In Parliament. Same thing really. Henry Carroll, Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire