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Thread #160890 Message #3820441
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
14-Nov-16 - 05:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit again
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit again
I am happy with direct questions. I don't have an answer to it though. MPs should vote with the wishes of their constituents. If most of their constituents want to leave the EU, that is the way they should vote. If most of their constituents want to remain, they should vote to remain. If they wish to try to estimate the views of those who abstained, that is up to them.
I have no idea how the individual members of the house would vote and what the majority in the house would be if they were to follow those guidelines. I do know that there is an extra factor in the party line and I hope that in this case the party whip does not apply and members are given a free vote.
Does anyone have the figures by constituency of how the referendum went and how a vote in the house would go if the MPs were guided by their own constituents?
DtG