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Originally Posted by richard s
Time to reform Parliament, I think we should only have 1 MP per county and the heads of every County and Borough Council (at no extra pay) should have more input and report to the MP. This will save tax payers a load of dosh.
As for the MPs pay rise - NO WAY.
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According to the Coalition Agreement, by now we should have been looking forward to a Commons made up of no more than 500 MPs - a reduction of about 150 from today's numbers. Unfortunately, Nick Clegg threw his rattle out of the pram when Lords reform fell through and ensured Commons reform also failed. This despite commons reform being a Lib Dem manifesto pledge in 2010 and a long-standing Lib Dem wish for years even before that.
The Liberal Democrats are duplicitous, cheap-talking opportunists and (horror of horrors) I am beginning to think that single party government is so much more desirable than coalition that a term of a purely Labour administration would be preferable to any government in which any Lib Dem played a part.