SERVE NOTICE ON YOUR MP, MSPs & COUNCILLORS
TO STOP THE PARTY WHIP & BLOCK VOTE
Let’s come together! Let’s Fix Politics!
Finally, create a group of rebels who agree when necessary to vote with their conscience against the Party Whip. If too many vote against the whip your party can’t suspend all of you.
If your party does suspend you, consider resigning and joining your local PEOPLE PARTY.
Serving notice as a living man or woman on our elected officials delivered in person by constituents is far more effective than a petition. We will attempt to serving notice on thousands of elected representatives. Our target is 5,000 signatures for each Westminster constituency (650) before the 2029 General Election. Over three million men and women!
Bringing thousands of like-minded people together locally in each region will allow them to form their local PEOPLE PARTY as we are in Scotland. If you agree, you must please sign to Serve Notice and share locally. Use the ‘Print Notice’ tab to download and print copies to distribute to your neighbours then go back and ask them to sign it. This is a huge project as there are over 65 new local PEOPLE PARTIES to be formed. Please help make it happen.
SOME BACKGROUND TO THIS SERVING NOTICE
It is our opinion that the block vote by the main political parties in your Local Council Chamber as well as other Council Chambers UK-wide is flawed as it makes Councillors unaccountable directly to their respective ward constituents whom they represent.
When campaigning for election a favourite of candidates is to claim, “I will be your local champion, and I will represent the interests of the people of our ward in the Council Chambers”. Such claims are either ignorant or deceitful as Councillors are usually not able to cast their vote freely. Imagine, for example, the two of us were both Councillors from the same party and we both felt strongly about voting in a particular way on a particular issue. If together we failed to persuade the majority of the Councillors in our party to vote how we wanted to vote, then both of our votes would be cast in direct opposition to how we both wanted to vote. We wouldn’t be able to vote how we wanted to – let alone how our constituents would like us to. The same problem exists in Holyrood & Westminster as MPs & MSPs are whipped and instructed on how to vote by their parties.
THE LYNCHPIN FLAW We believe we have identified the single lynchpin flaw in the current system of politics which is causing so many millions to be so unhappy. We know this is a bold claim. Let us explain and you can be the judge.
The political parties are far too large, controlling far too many thousands of people with a top-down control which is becoming more autocratic – evidenced by the Labour Party suspending 7 MPs from the Labour Party within one month of the 2024 General Election for voting against the whip. They voted to end the two-child benefit cap. They voted how most Labour MPs, members and voters would have normally voted and ironically found themselves being booted out of the Labour Party!
Specifically, the lynchpin flaw is the whipping of our elected representatives. When our elected representatives are told that they will be told how to vote that demotes them to the status of a lackey. As a lackey one’s job is to do as you’re told and to not ask any questions. Surely, this is not what we want from our elected representatives. For positive societal change we need our representatives to ask questions (even if that means rocking the boat). We believe most people don’t want wars or poverty, and that the big parties and their elected politicians have been manipulated into doing what their donors want. We want them to do what the people want.
Now that 7 MPs have been expelled from Labour for voting against the Whip, none who are left dare do that. No Labour MPs voted in favour of an amendment calling for a National Inquiry into grooming gangs, despite many acknowledging its need. Four Labour MPs publicly called for a National Inquiry but voted against it or abstained.
What will this mean if Starmer decides the UK should go to war? Will any Labour MPs stand up and vote against going to war?
We cannot have a Parliamentary system where our representatives vote against what they believe to be in the public’s best interest because an autocratic leader can threaten to cast them out of the Party for not following orders. When an order is wrong, it should be challenged not obeyed.
The UK’s sixty-four new PEOPLE PARTIES have a solution with the potential to Fix Politics! Small regional parties representing the interests of people locally rather than large, national parties. Instead of having a top-down control structure, there is a bottom-up control structure where all the power rests with the members of the party locally within the ward, constituency or region. Similar works in Switzerland where people have the power to challenge legislation by calling referenda. Our solution puts power in the hands of people such that it cannot be captured.
Our PEOPLE PARTY candidates’ slogan is “Elect me and you will be my boss”. Once elected PEOPLE PARTY elected representatives will take instruction on how to vote directly from members of the party within their ward, constituency or region. Once a voting agenda is available PEOPLE PARTY elected representatives will email it to their local members explaining how they would like to vote and why. The members will vote to decide how they want to instruct their elected representative to vote. Membership of your local PEOPLE PARTY is free, and you can choose not to donate. The core principle is informed consent and that the role of your elected representatives it to represent their electorate.
Our goal is for 80,000 people in Scotland to serve this notice before the May 2026 Scottish Parliament Elections and for 6.2 million people to sign it UK-wide before the 2029 General Election.
Thanks in advance if you serve this notice.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Wilkinson
Founder
65+ New Local PEOPLE PARTIES for the UK
Party Leader
EDINBURGH & EAST LOTHIAN PEOPLE
M: +44 7791 843 702
P.S. Your signature will be added to your local PEOPLE PARTY’s website when ready.