A letter to our member of parliament

Today, in desperation, we sent a letter to our MP. Usually such letters get a boiler plate response, dictated by Conservative Central Office. We aren’t hopeful about changing the mind of our MP. Before he was elected he ran a shockingly misogynist web site, now deleted. But it’s essential to do what one can to about democracy while we still have some. Dear Mike Penning I doubt whether this will be the only letter you’ll get along these lines.1. The Conservative party used to be the party of business. Brexit has destituted many small businesses and impoverished the UK. That’s not  just my opinion, but that of the OBR.  And it hasn’t been the will of the people except for a few weeks around the time of the referendum. The vote was bought by Russian (and far-right US) money. Putin was a strong advocate of brexit.  He got his way.2. The Conservative party used to be the party of law and order. Now, it seems, it thinks it’s enough to say sorry, let’s move on. It has become the party of law-breaking.3. The Rwanda scheme is intolerable. Government ministers appear regularly on TV and radio referring to people arriving illegally.  It is NOT illegal to ask for asylum however you arrive in the country. Ministers must know this, so they are lying to the public.  This should not happen. It breaks the ministerial code and in the recent past it would have led to resignation. That honourable tradition is ignored b...
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