WHILE appreciating the work our MP, Fiona Bruce, has done concerning opposing cuts to our educational system, I can’t help but wonder whether the whole saga could have been avoided.
I am sure it was not deliberate though it looks to me like cuts by central Government were reversed because local MPs of the same Party asked it to.
We have a ‘listening Government’ but apparently only when its policies are doing harm to their own members’ political interests.
Political considerations appear to be paramount in any decision that requires a Parliamentary majority to get it through.
Surely now is the time to seriously consider electoral reform that introduces a proportional voting system before our whole system of government goes into chaos, paralysis and terminal decline.
In my view, this should be part of a wider goal of a codified constitution that details the powers of all layers of government that is overseen by a constitutional court and is drawn up by a representative sample of the electorate.
Dr Peter Hirst Middlewich
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