2006-08-25 03:22:42 · 9 answers · asked by bigandy1005 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
That would be a very good thing,after all most people vote for a party not for an individual.
2006-08-25 03:29:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is true that most voters vote for a party and not an individual. There was an especially egregious instance of floor-crossing in Canada this year, when a Liberal minister joined the Conservatives just days after being re-elected as a Liberal so he could remain in cabinet after his party's defeat.
However hard cases make bad law, and I like to think that many if not most MPs who change parties do so for reasons of conscience, and should be allowed to do so. Those who take an old-fashioned view of the role of MPs deplore the amount of control which parties already have over MPs. They tell them how to vote and try to threaten them with de-selection if they step out of line. Voters will have a chance to punish them at the next election, unless they do a 'chicken run' to another seat like Shaun Woodward did. I agree with the last poster that morally they should, but am reluctant to force all of them to do so.
2006-08-25 11:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically an MP is elected as an individual but in practise most people just vote for the party. Morally they should stand for re-election.
2006-08-25 11:03:16 · answer #3 · answered by migelito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES of course because they no longer represent the Party that the they stood for when elected as an M P
2006-08-25 11:09:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they should. Especially if they cant be trusted to stay with the party to which they were elected to represent.
2006-08-25 13:35:10 · answer #5 · answered by chalky 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely. They were elected partly on the contents of their party's manifesto in rejecting that they are rejecting the very wishes of their electorate.
2006-08-25 14:39:04 · answer #6 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes because they no longer represtent the manifesto on which they stood.or at least that's in theory as nowadys all partys seem to be the same.
2006-08-25 10:28:32 · answer #7 · answered by che 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because it was dead!
2006-08-25 10:27:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES!
2006-08-25 12:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋