| Matt Warman
63 Wide Bargate Boston Lincolnshire PE21 6SG |
16 January 2019 |
Dear Matt Warman
The defeat of the Government's Withdrawal Agreement on Tuesday 15 January 2019 would have been problematic enough had it been a marginal defeat. The magnitude of the defeat appears to have shocked all observers across the political spectrum and across Europe. It is indicative of a far more serious problem in Britain.
The EU referendum has been severely criticised on all levels and it may have been an attempt to consolidate some sort of consensus in the UK but it turned out to be a Pandora's box. One year later, on account of the turmoil created, Theresa May called a General Election in the vain hope of increasing the Conservative majority. Quite the opposite occurred and it cost a pretty penny to secure the Confidence and Supply Agreement with the DUP to maintain a tenuous grip on power.
Now the Conservative Government have not only been the first ever Government to be found in Contempt of Parliament they have also suffered the largest defeat of any UK Government in history. All this is centred around the toxic and divisive issue of our membership of the EU. The government is spectacularly failing to maintain or even muster the confidence of the population and this in itself is causing serious unrest as well.
As Theresa May has been at pains to emphasise repeatedly, this country needs a "strong and stable" government. On that point I agree with her. It is in the interest of the UK as a country and all the individual people in the UK to find some consensus within which the UK can make safe and secure progress in whatever direction it chooses.
On that account, regardless of my views on membership of the EU or my political preferences and as one of your constituents, I request and urge you to vigorously support any moves toward securing a General Election at the earliest possible moment as a matter of highest priority and national security.
Yours sincerely
Sam Spruce
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