MP Carries On

As I said the other day, I attended a meeting of our constituency executive the purpose of which was to endorse the reselection of our sitting parliamentary representative.  We were presented with a rather weak resume of the Brexit situation and the hand-wringing difficulty of getting a deal over the line.  Apparently, the problem lay with various factions of entrenched opinion, for and against and our MP kindly listed the runners and riders for us.  When I spoke, I pointed out that there was one faction of opinion that he had omitted to mention – those who say they want to get a Brexit deal over the line but really want to Remain.  I expressed disappointment in those MPs who supported Mrs May’s Remain Minus sell-out and concluded my remarks with the statement that, with many key votes in future, there would be no blank cheque from me now.  The MP asked me what my question was – I replied that my remarks were not a question, simply a statement of which way I intended to vote.  We then had a secret ballot the result of which was that our MP was reselected.  After the meeting, to clear the air, I had a private word saying notwithstanding my earlier remarks, I fully accepted the majority decision and that he could count upon my full support in other matters in the future. Come to think of it, isn’t that the way democracy is supposed to work when electors have been faced with a binary choice?