I think it’s time to boot out our MPs

WHAT a peculiar situation we are in. Both the leader of the party with the most MPs, Boris Johnson, and the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, both won resounding victories among their party’s members.

Yet both sides’ MPs are plotting to remove them from their democratically-elected positions.

I think it is time for the House of Commons to be made up of members of the devolved administrations, including an English Parliament, and the MPs need to be booted out.

The House of Lords chamber could become a House of Ministers, made up of the executives of those administrations and where appropriate the Police and Crime Commissioners, or Mayors that have replaced them.

The Lords itself could move to a central location like Birmingham and scrutinise all parts of government and provide opinion on all legislation in all nations.

By the opinions of a reformed House of Lords being only advisory, they could not block Brexit from happening.

The work of the Houses of Parliament would be reduced as national legislators and ministers would only need to meet there to agree common legislation among all the nations that are members of it and for ceremonial purposes.

We could still, for instance, have the Black Rod ceremony of the Speaker of the Commons being taken to the upper house to hear the legislative programmes of the devolved administrations’ executives from the head of the Royal Family.

This would provide for one nation in tradition and at the same time account for the many nations that exist in the post-devolution age. Cllr Jonathan Bishop Efail Isaf