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My Letter to my MP Post Richmond By Election

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Dear

As you saw in Richmond, people who are concerned about the devastating effect of a hard Brexit have not resigned themselves to the way our current government is going ahead, or rather, is bungling its way out. Life-long Labour and Tory voters have voted Lib Dem to express their concern and send a strong message.

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The political landscape of the UK is changing, alliances are springing up because people are so concerned about this retrograde step the Prime Minister is leading us blindly into. I am proud to say that I, and several my friends are funding More United who supported and helped to fund Sarah Olney. This will be repeated across the UK wherever elections are held.

I have written to you previously to urge you to not vote to trigger Art 50 if it comes to a vote in Parliament, but you then responded that the people have spoken. I think you should remember that your constituency and Cardiff voted to remain.

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Many of us in Cardiff and across the UK, however have not given up, and we are very concerned about the way the government is conducting the exit strategy, including the pointless supreme court challenge, the lack of diplomacy in Boris Johnson's dealings and the recent “document” (plan: have cake and eat it - it seems to come out of a Monty Python sketch).

There are many in the House of Lords who are very unhappy with the whole nonsensical situation and if I am correct, the government’s majority in the Commons is down to ten, probably a dangerously small majority on which to embark upon controversial and unpopular legislation.

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I am aware that you originally took a remain stance and I remind you that the referendum was only ever advisory, so regardless of what you now think of Brexit, please think of your constituents, and please reconsider voting for an ill-considered exit that will Wales and devastate the country.

As my last point, I would quote Winston Churchill:

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'The first duty of a member of Parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgement is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain. His second duty is to his constituents, of whom he is the representative but not the delegate. Burke's famous declaration on this subject is well known. It is only in the third place that his duty to party organization or programme takes rank. All these three loyalties should be observed, but there in no doubt of the order in which they stand under any healthy manifestation of democracy.' 

Sir Winston Churchill on the Duties of a Member of Parliament.

 

Yours sincerely

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