Restructuring Parliament – MPs without portfolio
May 30, 2009
The UK’s political parties are all a-quiver about parliamentary reform so I’m going to suggest MPs without portfolio. We’ve had ministers without portfolio, why not MPs to represent those with little by way of interest in local issues but lots to say on the bigger picture or who have cross-boundary issues.
You’d have a limited number of elected seats that are not geographically tied in order to represent people who live online, those who can’t get to MPs surgeries, those whose problems are not to do with local issues (for example online privacy) and those who generally don’t have much to say on local constituency issues.
If you want reform why not reform along the lines that society is working. My life isn’t limited to a 40 square mile block with 30,000 people. Is yours ?
Update – try as I might I cannot find anyone to suggest this to. No 10 doesn’t have a suggestions box (for obvious reasons), my local MP is a LibDem (so already has an agenda set on this), the parliamentary reform commitee doesn’t even have an e-mail address. How the hell do I actually get the suggestion into the system ? Answers on a post card please.
