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This is a sure sign of the death knell of party politics as we have known it for decades. All MPs must be elected as independents. All votes must be free votes. We must acknowledge that the days of a PM are gone. We must actually have a democratically elected 'President'.
There must be a directly elected second chamber, and before you say it I know this sounds very , well American.
Our system of government is falling apart in front of our very eyes. If MPs seriously consider, as I do, that Brown should never have taken power without an election then the power actually lies with members with any conscience. They also should resign their seats, all of them. The game is over, the revolution is not far away, and who thought that the USSR would collapse, just use your imagination.
Brown paid for the war and subsequent occupation of Iraq. With Bush in town over the weekend now is the perfect time to announce our imminent withdrawal from Basra, we have retreated to the air base after all. Have you not noticed how many British soldiers have been killed in Iraq this year, we always were the problem and never the solution.