When you're on your own

On Tuesday’s Woman’s Hour Lynn Faulds Wood – another consumer/health campaigner/journalist/tv presenter & would-be Independent MP – without, I think, quite realising it pointed to the problems she & we would face if we tried to rely on a Parliament of politicians without Party

Stung by a dismissive remark about the ability to do a good job in a 15 minute tv segment, she hit back by talking about the huge amount of research which underpinned each such piece

Research carried out by a team employed by the tv company, financed by advertising (a levy on our shopping) or the licence fee (a regressive tax on households)

Just who would carry out the research needed to underpin an Independent MP’s decisions on how to vote on questions such as the following picked from a random Hansard?

The future of Royal Mail
Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions)
Contracting Out (Highway Functions)
Use Of The Commons Chamber (United Kingdom Youth Parliament)
Immigration Rules (Small Businesses)

And how would we – the electors – pay for it?

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