Letter to Jeremy Hunt MP, in September 2019, Regarding Anti-Democratic MPs, NOW INCLUDING Mrs Hunt's Response
Submitted to Mr Hunt via:
www.writetothem.com on 5th September 2019.
If you concur with the contents of this letter, please copy it & submit it to your MP, via the writetothem website. Mr Hunt's response is below the original letter.
Dear Jeremy Hunt,
I need to inform you of my general disgust at the behaviour of
a significant number of MPs in the recent past.
On the 23rd June 2016 voters were asked:
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European
Union or leave the European Union?”
Around 17.4 million people voted to leave with 16.1 million
voting to remain a member of the EU.
Voters were not asked if they wanted to leave with or without
a deal, consequently no MP can assert that people who voted to leave actually
prefer to leave with, or without a deal.
Please do not adopt an attitude on behalf of voters with
respect to any mechanism of leaving the EU.
Prior to and after the Referendum, supporters of remain made a
lot of noise about how damaging it would be to leave. Their cataclysmic predictions (dubbed Project
Fear) made prior to the Referendum, failed to materialise after the Referendum
and the same people are shouting loudly about the next apocalypse awaiting the
UK after leaving the EU with no-deal. As
before, these predictions are over-exaggerated and designed to scare people
(including yourself) into avoiding a no-deal exit; when the ultimate intention
is to prevent the UK from leaving at all.
Your responsibility as an MP is to implement the direct,
democratic result of the Referendum, which is for the UK to leave the EU.
You should not be influenced by what is effectively propaganda
(Project Fear) designed to reverse the result of the Referendum.
You do not have a mandate to modify the Referendum result by
insisting that the only way the UK should leave the EU is via a deal.
Your constituents are not your mandate, because the result of
over 33 million votes vastly supersedes your constituents. This is a national issue, not a local one.
The Government negotiated an exit agreement with the EU, which
MPs have rejected multiple times causing the resignation of the Prime Minister.
What does this tell us?
It tells us three things (amongst others):
1) The EU’s current requirements for an exit agreement were
not acceptable to a majority of MPs.
2) Re-negotiation of the contentious issues in the draft exit
agreement is unlikely to be successful, but a final effort is warranted. Multiple efforts are not.
3) MPs who, for whatever reason, work to prevent a no-deal
exit are actually preventing the Government from implementing the democratic result
of the Referendum. This is almost akin
to a coup, whereby a Government is prevented from undertaking its legal,
democratic powers. These MPs have not provided any positive resolutions in
order to achieve a negotiated exit, primarily because they personally do not
want to leave the EU.
As you are probably aware the majority of MPs who voted in the
Referendum voted for remain, contrary to the result from all 33 million voters.
After the Referendum, a majority of all MPs confirmed they
support the result of the vote and therefore would support the Government in
delivering the exit from the EU.
We now know that this was lip-service and a majority of MPs
have completely forgotten their democratic responsibility to voters and to the
Government. The new, young
(inexperienced?) and apparently naive leader of the Liberal Democrats is openly
acting in an anti-democratic manner by promoting the opposite of the Referendum
result, whilst dressing this up as being democratic!
And you wonder why people have such low regard for
politicians?
If you are a member of the Government and have voted against
your own Party in order to prevent a no-deal exit; you are also acting
anti-democratically by delaying or (the most-likely intention) preventing the
UK’s exit from the EU. In this case, you
are no longer fit to be a member of the Government or your party.
If you cannot understand that a direct mandate from 17.4
million people over-rides your own personal beliefs, then you should not be an
MP.
De-selection of these anti-democratic MPs is the bare minimum,
so that others with a proper understanding of their responsibility to the
country (not themselves or some alternative ideology), plus proper allegiance
to governing; can come forward.
There is no valid explanation, or excuse, for preventing a
Government implementing the direct mandate from 17.4 million people.
Your own personal beliefs are subservient to the mandate to
leave the EU; please do not impose your personal beliefs in Parliament in the
mistaken understanding you are being democratic; you are not.
Please ensure you support your country first and foremost by
working to implement the democratic vote to leave the EU in whatever form the
Government is able to establish.
If you cannot support the Government in implementing the
mandate to leave (with no conditions attached) and feel you have to oppose
this, then you no longer respect the majority of voters in this country and you
should resign as an MP.
Please ensure this message is spread widely amongst your
fellow MPs so that those who have significantly strayed away from their
democratic responsibilities can return to the fold and work towards achieving
the result of the Referendum: "to leave the EU".
Yours sincerely,
From: HUNT, Jeremy
Sent: 13 September 2019 14:21
To: Jeremy Daines
Subject: RE: Letter from your constituent Jeremy Daines
Sent: 13 September 2019 14:21
To: Jeremy Daines
Subject: RE: Letter from your constituent Jeremy Daines
Dear Mr Daines
Thank you for your email.
I do support the Prime
Minister’s Brexit policy. I believe the democratic damage from not delivering
the referendum result would ultimately be far more dangerous for our society
than any economic turbulence caused by the manner of our departure from the EU.
But delivering such a contentious policy in a hung parliament was never going
to be anything but extremely bumpy and we need to be careful how we deliver it.
As you may be aware I
do believe we need to keep no deal on the table. It has never been my first
choice and I do believe there would be disruption but in the end if we are
unable to secure a deal I do believe we need to honour the result of the
referendum. The way forward is to deliver Brexit but make sure the type of
Brexit we deliver is tolerant, open and internationalist.
Thank you again for writing to me.
Best wishes
Jeremy Hunt
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From: Jeremy Daines
Sent: 05 September 2019 17:23
To: HUNT, Jeremy
Subject: Letter from your constituent Jeremy Daines
Sent: 05 September 2019 17:23
To: HUNT, Jeremy
Subject: Letter from your constituent Jeremy Daines
Thursday 5 September 2019
Dear Jeremy Hunt,
I need to inform you of my general disgust at the behaviour of a
significant number of MPs in the recent past.
On the 23rd June 2016 voters were asked:
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or
leave the European Union?”
Around 17.4 million people voted to leave with 16.1 million voting to
remain a member of the EU.
Voters were not asked if they wanted to leave with or without a deal,
consequently no MP can assert that people who voted to leave actually
prefer to leave with, or without a deal.
Please do not adopt an attitude on behalf of voters with respect to any
mechanism of leaving the EU.
Prior to and after the Referendum, supporters of remain made a lot of
noise about how damaging it would be to leave. Their cataclysmic
predictions (dubbed Project Fear) made prior to the Referendum, failed
to materialise after the Referendum and the same people are shouting
loudly about the next apocalypse awaiting the UK after leaving the EU
with no-deal. As before, these predictions are over-exaggerated and
designed to scare people (including yourself) into avoiding a no-deal
exit; when the ultimate intention is to prevent the UK from leaving at
all.
Your responsibility as an MP is to implement the direct, democratic
result of the Referendum, which is for the UK to leave the EU.
You should not be influenced by what is effectively propaganda (Project
Fear) designed to reverse the result of the Referendum.
You do not have a mandate to modify the Referendum result by insisting
that the only way the UK should leave the EU is via a deal.
Your constituents are not your mandate, because the result of over 33
million votes vastly supersedes your constituents. This is a national
issue, not a local one.
The Government negotiated an exit agreement with the EU, which MPs have
rejected multiple times causing the resignation of the Prime Minister.
What does this tell us?
It tells us three things (amongst others):
1) The EU’s current requirements for an exit agreement were not
acceptable to a majority of MPs.
2) Re-negotiation of the contentious issues in the draft exit agreement
is unlikely to be successful, but a final effort is warranted.
Multiple efforts are not.
3) MPs who, for whatever reason, work to prevent a no-deal exit are
actually preventing the Government from implementing the democratic
result of the Referendum. This is almost akin to a coup, whereby a
Government is prevented from undertaking its legal, democratic powers.
These MPs have not provided any positive resolutions in order to
achieve a negotiated exit, primarily because they personally do not
want to leave the EU.
As you are probably aware the majority of MPs who voted in the
Referendum voted for remain, contrary to the result from all 33 million
voters.
After the Referendum, a majority of all MPs confirmed they support the
result of the vote and therefore would support the Government in
delivering the exit from the EU.
We now know that this was lip-service and a majority of MPs have
completely forgotten their democratic responsibility to voters and to
the Government. The new, young, inexperienced and apparently naive
leader of the Liberal Democrats is openly acting in an anti-democratic
manner, whilst dressing it up as being democratic!
And you wonder why people have such low regard for politicians?
If you are a member of the Government and have voted against your own
Party in order to prevent a no-deal exit; you are also acting
anti-democratically by delaying or (the most-likely intention)
preventing the UK’s exit from the EU. In this case, you are no longer
fit to be a member of the Government or your party.
If you cannot understand that a direct mandate from 17.4 million people
over-rides your own personal beliefs, then you should not be an MP.
De-selection of these anti-democratic MPs is the bare minimum, so that
others with a proper understanding of their responsibility to the
country (not themselves or some alternative ideology), plus proper
allegiance to governing; can come forward.
There is no valid explanation, or excuse, for preventing a Government
implementing the direct mandate from 17.4 million people.
Your own personal beliefs are subservient to the mandate to leave the
EU; please do not impose your personal beliefs in Parliament in the
mistaken understanding you are being democratic; you are not.
Please ensure you support your country first and foremost by working to
implement the democratic vote to leave the EU in whatever form the
Government is able to establish.
If you cannot support the Government in implementing the mandate to
leave (with no conditions attached) and feel you have to oppose this,
then you no longer respect the majority of voters in this country and
you should resign as an MP.
Please ensure this message is spread widely amoungst your fellow MPs so
that those who have significantly strayed away from their democratic
responsibilities can return to the fold and work towards achieving the
result of the Referendum: "to leave the EU".
Yours sincerely,
Jeremy Daines
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Dear Jeremy Hunt,
I need to inform you of my general disgust at the behaviour of a
significant number of MPs in the recent past.
On the 23rd June 2016 voters were asked:
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or
leave the European Union?”
Around 17.4 million people voted to leave with 16.1 million voting to
remain a member of the EU.
Voters were not asked if they wanted to leave with or without a deal,
consequently no MP can assert that people who voted to leave actually
prefer to leave with, or without a deal.
Please do not adopt an attitude on behalf of voters with respect to any
mechanism of leaving the EU.
Prior to and after the Referendum, supporters of remain made a lot of
noise about how damaging it would be to leave. Their cataclysmic
predictions (dubbed Project Fear) made prior to the Referendum, failed
to materialise after the Referendum and the same people are shouting
loudly about the next apocalypse awaiting the UK after leaving the EU
with no-deal. As before, these predictions are over-exaggerated and
designed to scare people (including yourself) into avoiding a no-deal
exit; when the ultimate intention is to prevent the UK from leaving at
all.
Your responsibility as an MP is to implement the direct, democratic
result of the Referendum, which is for the UK to leave the EU.
You should not be influenced by what is effectively propaganda (Project
Fear) designed to reverse the result of the Referendum.
You do not have a mandate to modify the Referendum result by insisting
that the only way the UK should leave the EU is via a deal.
Your constituents are not your mandate, because the result of over 33
million votes vastly supersedes your constituents. This is a national
issue, not a local one.
The Government negotiated an exit agreement with the EU, which MPs have
rejected multiple times causing the resignation of the Prime Minister.
What does this tell us?
It tells us three things (amongst others):
1) The EU’s current requirements for an exit agreement were not
acceptable to a majority of MPs.
2) Re-negotiation of the contentious issues in the draft exit agreement
is unlikely to be successful, but a final effort is warranted.
Multiple efforts are not.
3) MPs who, for whatever reason, work to prevent a no-deal exit are
actually preventing the Government from implementing the democratic
result of the Referendum. This is almost akin to a coup, whereby a
Government is prevented from undertaking its legal, democratic powers.
These MPs have not provided any positive resolutions in order to
achieve a negotiated exit, primarily because they personally do not
want to leave the EU.
As you are probably aware the majority of MPs who voted in the
Referendum voted for remain, contrary to the result from all 33 million
voters.
After the Referendum, a majority of all MPs confirmed they support the
result of the vote and therefore would support the Government in
delivering the exit from the EU.
We now know that this was lip-service and a majority of MPs have
completely forgotten their democratic responsibility to voters and to
the Government. The new, young, inexperienced and apparently naive
leader of the Liberal Democrats is openly acting in an anti-democratic
manner, whilst dressing it up as being democratic!
And you wonder why people have such low regard for politicians?
If you are a member of the Government and have voted against your own
Party in order to prevent a no-deal exit; you are also acting
anti-democratically by delaying or (the most-likely intention)
preventing the UK’s exit from the EU. In this case, you are no longer
fit to be a member of the Government or your party.
If you cannot understand that a direct mandate from 17.4 million people
over-rides your own personal beliefs, then you should not be an MP.
De-selection of these anti-democratic MPs is the bare minimum, so that
others with a proper understanding of their responsibility to the
country (not themselves or some alternative ideology), plus proper
allegiance to governing; can come forward.
There is no valid explanation, or excuse, for preventing a Government
implementing the direct mandate from 17.4 million people.
Your own personal beliefs are subservient to the mandate to leave the
EU; please do not impose your personal beliefs in Parliament in the
mistaken understanding you are being democratic; you are not.
Please ensure you support your country first and foremost by working to
implement the democratic vote to leave the EU in whatever form the
Government is able to establish.
If you cannot support the Government in implementing the mandate to
leave (with no conditions attached) and feel you have to oppose this,
then you no longer respect the majority of voters in this country and
you should resign as an MP.
Please ensure this message is spread widely amoungst your fellow MPs so
that those who have significantly strayed away from their democratic
responsibilities can return to the fold and work towards achieving the
result of the Referendum: "to leave the EU".
Yours sincerely,
Jeremy Daines
2956643c98ae0683718b/5392b0b394270d5b506c
(Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with section 7(3) of
the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)
This message was sent by WriteToThem.com. If you have had any
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