Submitted on Monday 27th March 2017
Rejected on Tuesday 4th April 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow the Clacton Constituency voters a chance to change their MP under Recall
Under MP Recall proposals (2014) it was agreed that MPs should be recalled if 10% of their electorate voted that their MP should stand down. Many of Clacton's electorate voted for the party, not the man and so should be given the opportunity to select a new MP following his resignation from UKIP.
Electorate: 67,447 (December 2010). Thus if 7000 of Clacton's voters support this petition, Douglas Carswell, as somebody who has repeatedly claimed that MPs should honourably stand down and seek re-election if they leave their party but now appears to be hiding behind the fact that he is not 'crossing the floor', should respect their wishes, stand down and allow a by-election to take place.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
If you'd like the law on the recall of MPs to be changed, you may wish to sign this petition instead:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/181970
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