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Chief whips are the people who tell your MP what to vote for – and not you. They are in public service, paid for by the people, so should have nothing to hide when it comes to allowing us to monitor how they instruct our representatives to vote on new legislation.
Because MPs who vote against their party leader’s recommendations can face deselection, it would be fairer to them, and us, if we could see the ‘influence’ chief whips have on them.
Chief whips are the real chaos merchants. Quote from a former tory chief bully boy:
“Problems involving members “might be debt, or it might be a scandal involving small boys”.
“They would come and ask if we could help,” Fortescue said. “And if we could we did, and we would do everything we could, because we could store up brownie points.
“That’s one of the reasons we would get a chap out of trouble – because he’d then be ours forever-more.”
I read this one, which gives the impression they should be watched around the clock. Since Thatcher reinvented the role as “cabinet enforcers” and my local MP was a tory chief whip, no MP is likely to get a free vote. Great book btw.
Please read this book to discover exactly why we should never go down this route
Privacy is theft?