Unelected Tory launches bizarre attack on voters to not ‘overrule‘ their ‘leaders‘ and back Brexit – The Sun
AN UNELECTED Tory Minister has launched a bizarre attack on voters, urging them not to “overrule” their “leaders” by voting Leave.
Bungling Baroness Ros Altmann claimed last night that “majority of MPs in all three parties want to stay in the EU."
"They’re your democratically elected leaders, she added.
"Voting Brexit overrules your own MPs.”
The pro-EU pensions minister has never been far from controversy since it was revealed she had been a member of the Labour Party for 14 months after she was invited to join the government by David Cameron last year.
But her tweets during last night’s ITV referendum debate sparked fury online and has angered Eurosceptics.
Former Deputy Commons Speaker Nigel Evans told The Sun that “the concept of democracy that clearly is alien to Baroness Altman.
“The referendum is to give the people the choice. Not the MPs but the people, and it was passed by Parliament after a manifesto commitment by the government that she serves.”
The Brexit backing Tory MP added: “That is why we are spending £100 million on this referendum.”
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“This is more important than any general election as it will work out how we will be governed for the next God knows how many decades.
Given that Baroness Altman was appointed, I appreciate that asking the people for their views is not something that she is used to."
Iain Duncan Smith called the minister's outburst "a very strange statement".
The Brexit-backing Tory said: "The EU referendum is about the British people having a say over our future, yet a Government minister now seems to be suggesting that they should just obey their MPs – that voters have no right to their own opinions.
"I believe MPs are there to serve their constituents not, as Ros Altmann believes, to be served by them.”
Andrew Ridgeley – the former Wham! guitarist – took to social media to brand the peer a “patronising, self aggrandising snob.”
Baroness Altman defended her comments last night saying: “Our democracy relies on us trusting the elected government to make important decisions for us”.
And today she apologised on twitter if her Tweet "came over badly". She said: "Of course MPs there to serve the people."
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