Originally posted by BrilloPad
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The UK does not work like that. Members of Parliament are elected as representatives of the people, but they are not the people themselves. Neither are they delegates of the people. If parliament was the people then the people would be able to mandate the votes in parliament, either by voting themselves, or at a stretch via delegates who could be instantly recalled and replaced (as with Trade Union delegates - or at least that is the theory). But this is not the reality. All the people can do is elect every five years (sometimes more regularly) MPs who will decide for themselves how to vote in parliament.
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