Submitted on Monday 24th October 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban Parliamentary Whips
Democracy is founded on the right for people to have a say in what goes on in Government.
We, the people elect our officials on the basis that they will vote in favour or against a motion before Parliament that is representative of the views of their constituents and the general British public.
Parliamentary whips are contrary to democracy by encouraging, pushing, poking, prodding, bullying and threatening our elected representatives to vote along the party line. This petition supports the abolition of Parliamentary whips, so that our elected MPs are free to vote in the way that represents the views of their constituents and the public, not the views of their leader.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Whipping is a matter for political parties and not HM Government
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