Wycombe Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats have been calling for the reform of our democracy for decades. Now as a result of the expenses scandal the public is rightly demanding reform. So far Gordon Brown and David Cameron have suggested tinkering around the edges, pretending to offer real reform when in reality they are defending the status quo. Only the Liberal Democrats have the courage to take on the establishment.

Nick Clegg writing in the Guradian says “Finally the dam has broken, and everyone is talking about changing Britain’s political system. For decades reformers have been thwarted by Westminster inertia. But the MPs’ expenses scandal has overturned old certainties and made change possible.

This moment must be seized by all who want a different kind of politics. Warm words, rhetoric and consideration are not enough; indeed, they are a guarantee that little will happen. So let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out, and every nook and cranny of our political system has been reformed.”

“Today I’m setting out a plan of action to get all the changes we need delivered in just 100 days – making it possible for MPs to be sacked by constituents, abolishing the House of Lords, getting corrupt money out of politics and changing the electoral system to give everyone a voice. People will say it isn’t possible – parliament can’t act that quickly. I say the innate conservatism that marks out our political establishment is part of the problem. Let’s stop all this self-congratulatory hype about the mother of parliaments and get on with improving it.”

Read the full Guardian article at

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/27/nick-clegg-a-new-politics

Read the full proposals at http://www.takebackpower.org/

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