Comments on: Quentin Davies’s letter of defection http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2007/06/27/495 All the pig that's fit to saw Fri, 10 May 2013 15:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2007/06/27/495/comment-page-1#comment-80074 Nik Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:07:53 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2007/06/27/495#comment-80074 Well, indeed. And the answers are... Actually, yes; That, too; It never really existed; Yes; He didn't have one to start with. ...but not necessarily in that order. Well, indeed.

And the answers are… Actually, yes; That, too; It never really existed; Yes; He didn’t have one to start with.

…but not necessarily in that order.

]]> By: MC http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2007/06/27/495/comment-page-1#comment-79798 MC Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:01:19 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2007/06/27/495#comment-79798 But how can he have a clear conscience when he was elected on a Conservative party ticket, and has now defected to suit his own views? Instead of sticking it out as his people's representative in parliament regardless of his own views, he has decided that his views are more important than those of his constituency. What happened to democracy? Shouldn't his electorate at least get a by-election to decide if he is still the man for them? Is that a man of principle? Or is it a man who sees no future power possibilities with one party so swaps to another? But how can he have a clear conscience when he was elected on a Conservative party ticket, and has now defected to suit his own views? Instead of sticking it out as his people’s representative in parliament regardless of his own views, he has decided that his views are more important than those of his constituency. What happened to democracy? Shouldn’t his electorate at least get a by-election to decide if he is still the man for them? Is that a man of principle? Or is it a man who sees no future power possibilities with one party so swaps to another?

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