Bill Cash, yesterday, at Newsnight, said, as regards the Conservative Party leadership trying to get control by changing the membership of the 1922 Committee,
“There was no discussion, no consultation, it goes right to the heart of the existence of the 1922 Committee, (…). If you were on the basis of what is being proposed to have the chairman of the 1922 Committee, who is a government minister, and all the members of the executive, it just well might not exist, it is about the independence of the backbenchers."
As regards the proposed 55% threshold for Dissolution of Parliament, Bill Cash said:
"If you have a vote of confidence normally you have a dissolution, what they are saying, we wont dissolve, we will carry on and if the Liberal Party wants to go off with the Labour Party we will be stuck for five years."
Moreover, Bill Cash said:
“This is not new politics, this old politics, this is politics designed to ensure that governments as compared to backbenchers and parliaments as a whole, we were told that backbenchers power was going to be increased, we were told that Parliament power is going to be increased, in fact, every single one of these things is to reduce it. They got rid of the Sovereignty which is very important.
“This provision which is being proposed, actually gives a most enormous amount of power to the Government, is not truly independence of the backbenchers.
"There are serious constitutional questions, I wish this Government success, I wish this wasn’t being done, I think the legitimacy of the proposals, given the political dilemma that David Cameron was in, could be seriously, and probably is being seriously jeopardise by a failure of legitimacy in relation of the 55% and now the Conservative Party as well, I wish him well, but I don’t wish any of this on the British people." See Bill Cash on the Newsnight.
People need to know what is going on. Bill Cash was saying what he believes is right for the country. It is a shame that he is not invited more often to express his opinion on TV.
I agree with you on the issue of the 22, but do you need to go around the TV studios ten days into a Tory led Government? A little loyalty wouldn’t go amiss, especially when it is the 22 itself that supported these changes.