NICK CLEGG WORKS FOR THE EU, NOT FOR US

I've been following the recent revelation that Nick Clegg is recommending reducing the number of MP's in Parliament.

He claims that this will "give power back to the people" and stating that this move will save £30 million pounds of taxpayers money.

He neglects to mention that if we pulled out of the EU by repealing the 1972 European Communities Act, we would save a bare minimum of £12-£15 BILLION pounds of taxpayers money in membership fees. That's not even touching the added costs of compliance with thousands of one-sided EU regulations.

And obviously Mr Clegg hasn't studied the concept of a representative democratic government before. That's odd, considering he's a Minister of Parliament. Or perhaps not...because he was a European Minister of Parliament first, and nothing about the EU is representative or democratic.

He is pushing for "massive devolution of power", an advancement of the already dubious move by the Labour government to take power away from councils and the voting public and place them into "regional authorities" aka quangos, who are staffed by unelected officials appointed by Government ministers without a vote from the public.

This isn't the same system as local county councils, and doesn't put any power into the hands of the public whatsoever - it concentrates the power over many into the hands of a few who answer only to the Government.

This dilutes our voting power, as on average there is one Member of Parliament per 70,000 electors and under Clegg’s proposals this would increase to about one MP per 90,000 electors.

It directly advances the cause of an elective dictatorship in this country, and all the talk about giving power to voters is just that - empty words and doublespeak.

Just how stupid does he think we are?