One of the objectionable features of the Euro-voting system is the artificiality of the electoral divisions. Their synthetic nature can be inferred from their names: North West, South West and so on. My own region,ghd sale, the South East,Nike Air Max, is perhaps the most unnatural of all,Nike Air Max 90 Australia. It lacks any focal point. Or, rather, its focal point is London, which is outside it.
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Why am I bothering,oakley pas cher? With more than six million voters in my patch, no amount of canvassing will appreciably . I suppose I'm motivated by a combination of Kantian imperative and curiosity: knocking on doors is a way to find out what people are saying. And one thing I've learned, to my pleasure, is that people are more discerning about their MPs than you'd guess from some of the media comment,lunettes oakley. The two local MPs here,Mulberry bags, Anne Milton and Jeremy Hunt, are well known and well liked. I haven't heard a single "they're all the same"; but I've heard several remarks along the lines of "we're lucky here, Jeremy is one of the clean ones". As for Anne, who commutes every day and doesn't take a penny from her Additional Costs Allowance, her description in this newspaper as "saintly" seems to have penetrated every household in Guildford. People recognise her and shout greetings. Several constituents rush up for a beatific hug. I half expect someone to present her with a sick child to be healed.
Why am I telling you this? Because I am worried by the number of people who are exploiting the expenses crisis to revive the case for proportional representation,gucci pas cher. Look, there may be perfectly honourable arguments for PR, but the one thing it isn't is a solution to the current scandal. On the contrary, we've just seen a massive vindication of the principle that people should be allowed to hire and fire MPs as individuals.
Trust me on this: I know how at first hand how PR works. I could have spent the past four weeks in front of the television, and it would have made no difference whatever to my prospects. If candidates have no cause to fear the voters,Louis Vuitton Handbags Australia, accountability is diminished. That's why we should have . And, in case you think I'm urging a system on others that I wouldn't accept myself, let me close by suggesting a return to one-member Euro-constituencies; and let's have open primaries for them, too.
