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Interesting, isn't it: supporting WASPIs because: "bad Tories" is fine, but let's please not mention that between 1995 and 2011 we had the Blair-Brown years: 1997 -2010, in case it slipped someone's memory. The poor things couldn't have done anything about it during that time, could they? Aww.

This Labour period and all that happened during that time will be conveniently memory-holed by the Westminster establishment, as they conveniently memory-holed pit closures and industries closing before the Thatcher years. Do I need to remind anyone of that 'Renewable energy' Bill introduced by a certain Mr Ed Miliband? The same who is now planning to crown his 'edifice'? Btw - it's ed, not David, the brother: he quickly skedaddled for pastures new and much richer after Brown was defeated in 2010.

As for the Tory shadow front bench, Badenoch included: it seems they simply do not have the nous to even get properly informed SpAds to help them provide with proper briefs. Shame, innit ...

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Miliband - corrected, thanks - can't distinguish between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

As to the rest, in my darker moments I wonder whether we are planning to abolish the wrong House in Westminster.

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"Abolish the wrong House" - ouch, that's deep! Only watching the peacocks in action at PMQs could have incited such thoughts.

Mind you, having watched that other Chamber a few times I'm not so sure: watching 'commoners', especially about ones, playing at being noble lords is quite sickening. Now reducing the one to 100 and the other to half their current intake: that would be great!

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Except the fewer the MPs the more remote from the people. As it is the average English constituency numbers 69,000 - plus. Remember it was Cameron who wanted to get rid of 50 MPs. How do you get a working democracy in a country with 70 million humans?

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Well, the USA seems to be able to do it, with 100 senators and 435 Representatives - and there are a few more people living in the USA than here in the UK, IIRC ...

Moreover, apparently MPs have to spend their time mostly on stuff to do with social services. Isn't that something local councillors ought to do - or in 'devolved' entities like Wales, the many members of the Senedd, now planned to go up to 90 members?

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But the Yanks vote on much more locally and State-level.

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Yes, and we have local councils which could do so but don't because more and more government has become centralised, with the slogan of preventing 'a postcode lottery'. I don't need to mention the culture of box-ticking, combined with pressure to 'do as we say' by making money from the treasury depend on successful box-ticking exercises, e.g. 'diversity officers employed' or housing for you-know-who.

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