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The more interesting question Keef is how long Charlotte will remain selected?
For the past three centuries or so we've been running on the idea of trustee representation in Parliament - our elected representatives are NOT there to 'do our will'. As Burke wrote “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving, you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
There is a nasty undercurrent bubbling afoot again (we've been through this before) that parliamentarians are merely there to 'give the people what they want' - see Brexit, or even worse, in the Labour Party, to do what a group of often self appointed activists want.
First they came for the District Councillors, but I did nothing because I was not a District Councillor etc ......................
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