Charlie Stevens
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Charlie Stevens
@Charlie_Stevens
Getting stuff done. Sharing my own thoughts and opinions.









A superhuman effort from our volunteers today, blowing all our previous records out of the water... 77 bags of litter filled! Thank you to everyone who helped 👏👏👏





Very good piece here on the insane demands on MPs from constituency casework, which has been rising almost exponentially since Covid It's clear we need to completely rethink how our democracy works, and I think this is a good opportunity. We have a system where councillors have very few powers, and MPs' actual role in debating and developing policy has been neutered. We should look at devolving constituency casework largely to councillors, who should be properly-paid full-time jobs. This would have the added benefit of possibly improving the quality of local government politicians. Meanwhile, a future government that finally removes quangos and restores democratic and judicial roles to parliament can focus on letting MPs be MPs, rather than glorified social workers. There's a big problem here, but also a big opportunity to restore faith in politics and MPs. politicshome.com/news/article/m…






















