IN RESPONSE to Christine Robert’s Labour Party supporter letter.
I find comments regarding the English Democrats living in the past very interesting compared to her Labour Party.
Let’s just compare a couple of items.
We want an English Parliament with accountable English MPs making decisions on English-only services.
This is called an accountable and transparent democracy answerable to the people.
However, Labour doesn’t want this – it wants unaccountable Scottish MPs deciding England’s tax rates and public services whilst we have no say on theirs, that is anti-democratic.
We only have to view Mr Burnham’s voting record as MP to see he is against an open, transparent and accountable Parliament.
Besides voting for the Iraq war, he also voted against an investigation into it, he doesn’t want the people to have a say on the EU and nearly always following the party line (not good if the party line is bad for Leigh).
Living in the past would be voting for Mr Burnham and Labour again, moving forward in a modern England with an accountable, open and transparent parliament would mean voting for the English Democrats.
Stephen Morris
English Democrats NW chairman
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