Post Brexit To-Do List

trevor432990

Slightly premature I know but when we finally achieve a Brexit split from the EU it would be a good idea to do a 'drains up' assessment on what lessons we have learned throughout the Brexit exercise and what changes need to happen in our Government or Parliamentry processes in order to clear up the anomallies we found.

The following list (I like lists as you may have gathered) is my first stab which I shall update when others have hopefully provided feedback and suggestions. It is not in any specific order of importance either yet  :-

When MPs resign or are sacked from their party they MUST be replaced by that party immediately and not allowed to go Independent or change parties mid-termPolitics and decision making needs to become less centred in London and more distributed around the countryEngland should have its own national assembly like the other UK countriesA written constitution must be constructed and approved by the people defining how the MPs, Peers,Monarch and the Judiciary shall interact and which has final sovereigntyMembers of the House of Lords must be replaced by elected peers in futureThe role of Speaker must be defined in writing to emphasise the need for impartiality and clear duties and rules for them to be followed by the incumbentUK Parliaments both central and devolved must have the fundamental goal of being co-operative rather than confrontationalProportional representation must replace our first past the post system to better reflect the views of the people even if that means more coalitionsPeople no longer want to be led by Parliament but want to direct it more. For example by more referendum and/or decision making using IT applications

Pacifico

I totally agree with 1 & 2. dont see the point of another layer of bureaucracy with 3, open to persuasion on 4, not at all sure about 5, agree on 6, cant see 7 ever happening, 8 is OK, 9 I agree with.

EarthRod

10. Parliament should move out of that old Westminster building and out of London to a more central or even northern position in England.

The above actually ties in with your point 2.

Goooner

Maybe they could switch it between London and somewhere else, just to give the Remainers a taste of the EU, so they don’t miss it too much

Bl4ckGryph0n

11. Apply for an EU visa

krish

Disagree with all except 8 (PR). Would dissolve and abolish the HoL and possibly replace with a new fully elected second chamber ... no half and half. Erskine May covers a lot. Would ban filibustering.

psikey

1 & 2 & 3 - Agree
4 get rid of Peers
5 Why have anybody other than elected MP's ? Why a 2nd group at all?
6 Agree
7. Will not happen if they can pursue independance
8. Agree
9. Direct Democracy over Representational Democracy

And

NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN !

richp007

Post Brexit? Only one thing I'm doing.

IronGiant

9) Surely, if nothing else, Brexit has taught us referenda are a bad thing?  

I should also add, if we are going to have more, what size a sensible majority is needs to be established.

SteakAndCake

I'd say for significant change resulting in severe disruption like Brexit, a two thirds majority. This is Canada's threshold for Quebec independence.

If we switch to Direct Democracy, then we need far stricter controls over information like the Swiss. They've overturned a few results because they didn't believe the population had enough accurate information, or information provided was inaccurate.

I consider the majority of the British population (myself included) simply too ignorant on too many issues to make potentially disruptive decisions.

I read too many foreign economic blogs and articles pre vote to try and inform myself before voting and it was boring as ****. I'm not doing that every month. I still maintain that Parliamentary Democracy is the best system for governing this country in its present state.