Monday 6 July 2015

We Will Recall

Peter Hitchens writes:

I still don’t understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England.

What does it gain us, compared with the misery of noise, pollution and congestion it causes in our cramped country? Would it really be so bad if we had to take a train to Paris or Amsterdam to fly to the USA?

Why the obsession with grandiose projects, such as new runways and the mad, useless HS2, when the shocking scandal of the broken promise on electrifying our decrepit, low-speed railways passes without scandal

The abandoned plans were specifically promised in a Tory manifesto published only a few weeks ago (pages 11, 13 and 14, if you want to check).

I know politicians lie habitually, but this is surely the most blatant false prospectus of modern times. Yet nobody has even resigned.

They might not have noticed Down South. But we have certainly noticed up here.

Opposed though I am to any provision for the recall of MPs between General Elections, the Government does look fairly set on bringing it in.

There are 44 Conservative MPs sitting for constituencies in the North of England, one for a constituency in the South of Scotland (slap bang between Berwick and Carlisle stations), and three for constituencies in North Wales.

What is union money for?

This is a way of reintegrating the RMT. That remains disaffiliated from the Labour Party. But, being affiliated to the Labour Representation Committee, it is constitutionally committed to the election of a Labour Government.

ASLEF and the TSSA, meanwhile, remain affiliated to the party.

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