The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Yeah good news, yields on 10-year gilts are back down to  Liz Truss levels…

Yes mate, I know.

Did she herself not accelerate the growth? So maybe Labour took a bit of short term pain to start recalibrating down?

[hypochondriac]

5 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Lol, the vote would happen every week because there is always someone who is unhappy about something

You'd allow for that by making the threshold high enough that you wouldn't have it happening all the time and you'd have a period where it wouldn't be allowed once you'd called one and it was unsuccessful. If strength of feeling was high enough and your failure big enough then it would be easier to remove you.

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5 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

I'd make it so that constituents can initiate a recall petition with a certain number of signatures. Once a threshold is met you're out.

So a witch hunt policy? 

[hypochondriac]

4 minutes ago, egg said:

So a witch hunt policy? 

Not if the threshold is high enough. It's not acceptable that politicians can blatantly lie to get elected, renege on most of their promises and then roll out a load of society changing stuff that no one voted for with no means of getting rid before the next election.

We already have recall petitions under certain circumstances. Changing those circumstances can make politicians more accountable to their constituents.

Edited 7 hours ago by hypochondriac

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3 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Not if the threshold is high enough. It's not acceptable that politicians can blatantly lie to get elected, renege on most of their promises and then roll out a load of society changing stuff that no one voted for with no means of getting rid before the next election.

We already have recall petitions under certain circumstances. Changing those circumstances can make politicians more accountable to their constituents.

Individual politicians don't generally renege on their promises - they don't set policy. You seem to be asking for a recall petition to be used to boot out MP's because of government policy decisions. That's never going to happen. 

If (as you initially suggested) there's a more accessible recall petition for MP's because they're falling short, then that's so open to abuse, and it absolutely could be used in witch hunt exercises. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, egg said:

If (as you initially suggested) there's a more accessible recall petition for MP's because they're falling short, then that's so open to abuse, and it absolutely could be used in witch hunt exercises. 

Corbyn and Johnson would certainly have abused it.