Repeal the Fixed Term Parliaments Act

[Ciaphas]

It is perfectly reasonable for parliament to have the final say on whether a general election occurs early.



Firstly it stops the executive from calling an early election at a time which favours them. For example a time when the executive has made promises which give them a boost in the polls but which will subsequently be broken after the general election has taken place.



Secondly it stops the executive from calling an election with the intention of disolving parliament in order to prevent it from opposing the executive on time dependent issues.



Checks and balances are important.

[Barry]

I would expect this to be in the first session of the next government, whichever party wins, as if the sides were switched, no one would want to go through that sort of debacle again. Agree 100%, it was a legislation which suited 2010 to 2015 with no foresight as to what might happen after that.

[johnofgwent]

The title says it all.



This poisonous piece of legislation was one of two equal in odiousness demanded by the europhilic bastard Nick Clegg as part of his deal with Cameron to deprive Gordon Brown of a second term of office



It's most immediate effect was to deprive Wales of the chance to castrate Carwyn the Clod. The Welsh were deemed by the English Parliament to be too fucking thick to have a vote for a Tory/Liberal coalition on the same day as another for a Labour/Plaid coalition (or maybe Clegg didn't want to be reminded we'd seen right through the (nope, can't use that word) and exterminated the lying (nope, still can't use it)'s party in 2011 for his U turn in student tuition fees among others)



So in Wales, where the Assembly was supposed to be a fixed FOUR year term, the 2011 election "winners" were told to stay on for a fifth year because the Welsh were too fucking thick to vote for two separate elections on the same day in 2015.



I tried asking the odious corrupt fraudster who was then the Tory AM for the South Wales East region by reason of resigning the Marxist Cottage Burner Party Whip and becoming a Tory but not resigning the seat he got as a Party Regional candidate, not an FPTP constituency one, why we were being deprived of the opportunity to depose him for another 12 months for his accepting a bribe in the form of cushy jobs for his wife and daughter in the Tory party machine in Cardiff but for some reason he refused to answer.



However, recent years have seen the full measure of the impact the Five Year Parliament Act has had. Not least the spectacle of a conspiratorial house and speaker usurping the will of Her Majesty's Government but refusing to accept the inevitable constitutional consequence of facing an irate electorate for their subverting the government of the country.



Truly this act is the work of those who do not have the best interests of this country at heart and it needs must in the interest of good government and restoration of the accountability of parliament to the people be consigned to the dustbin at the earliest possible opportunity.



NEVER AGAIN should Her Majesty's Prime Minister be forced to endure the humiliation of the last couple of months. Frankly, I'm amazed the streets of London are not awash with low level radioactive toxin from Putin taking the opportunity to settle a few more old scores given the degree to which the world has been shown our Government and Her Majesty's Prime Minister in it to be castrated by an fascist rabble unwilling to request the people sanction their treachery.



This Act Must Die.