A Europhile minister today figured out how to do away with this vexatious EU Referendum business – just tell the voters to can it and obey their MPs.
Ros Altmann, who oversees pensions, wagged her finger at voters considering defying their Member of Parliament to back Brexit:
https://twitter.com/rosaltmann/status/740991699355328513
Her warning against “overruling” MPs, triggering a firestorm of outrage from across the political spectrum:
@rosaltmann MPs are the servants of the people, not their masters.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 10, 2016
@rosaltmann Umm…yes it does. That's kind of the point. It's called a "referendum".
— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) June 10, 2016
@rosaltmann Haha what? Have you been drinking? This is a democracy. We get to overrule our MPs. THEY work for US. #Brexit
— Fergus 52% Mason (@FergusMason1) June 10, 2016
Baroness Altmann – who as a member of the Hous eof Lords was never “democratically elected” – later U-turned:
Just want to apologise if my tweet on MPs came over badly. Of course MPs there to serve the people. That's what democracy all about
— Ros Altmann (@rosaltmann) June 10, 2016
But the damage has been done.
The Remain campaign – and the EU they seek to defend – are guilty of time and again treating the electorate as an inconvenience to worked around rather than people to work for.
This will only deepen that impression.
