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Researched and Referenced Letter to Sarah Newton, MP in response to the prorogation of parliament, and the illegalities of Vote Leave.

This was a final email in response to a shorter correspondence. For reference, I had called her out on voting against the Human Right's bill. 



Thank you for your swift response, it is probably above and beyond your duties to reply that early on a Sunday morning and I do appreciate that regardless of politics, most MPs do work very hard.
I had read your responses, and unfortunately they did not reassure me. I understand your point about being a democrat but I think we are in a unique position with regards to that for a number of reasons (please find references below):

1) It has been proven beyond doubt that the Vote Leave campaign, led by the two men now at the helm of the country, lied at every step of the way. In addition to this, it has been proven by the Electoral Commission that Vote Leave broke electoral law during the campaign (1). Using dirty tactics, lies and deeply emotive messaging to pull the wool over the eyes of millions of people whose lives had been decimated by austerity, and not the EU/immigration is NOT the path to a democratic result. As I said in my previous email, there are now a huge number of people who have realised how the force of Vote Leave tricked them, and are now campaigning to remain (2). 

2) Since 2016 the two Prime Ministers tasked with taking Britain through Brexit, arguably the most defining moment in modern European History, have been elected  undemocratically in the first instance. Boris Johnson, a man held in complete contempt by most rational people, was voted in by 92,153 people, or 0.13% of the British population(3). As part of this I also will mention your comment about the opposition "bottling it" at this opportunity for a G.E. I'm sure you are aware that the only reason the Labour Party were delaying a G.E at your time of writing was to protect the country from crashing out via a no-deal that Johnson could have still snuck through by moving the election date to after the 31/10 deadline. Since you are also campaigning to prevent a no deal I'm sure you can appreciate this as a security move.

3) It has been widely agreed by numerous cross-party sources (4), and his own sister (5), that Boris Johnson's financial backers are hedge funds and city traders that stand to profit billions by shorting the pound. The influence of these powerful men has already been demonstrated by Crispin Odey who firstly suggested prorogation before it happened(6), and secondly has openly bet against the prosperity of British firms post Brexit. He donated £10000 to Johnson's leadership campaign (7). 
I don't even have words for the type of investors who choose to gamble billions in this way, but it is the attitude and same behaviour that led to the 2008 financial crisis. This of course is what got the Cameron coalition elected into power and eventually led to Brexit! These backers stand to have more influence over our PM than we do as an electorate, and that to me is deeply undemocratic and quite terrifying.

I found your vote on the independent website www.theyworkforyou.com which uses the Hansard report. I used the "voting record" tool which gives a very clear overview of your general position on many topics. Under "social issues" you will find that there is a title that states you have "generally voted against laws to promote equality and human rights", which of course was something I decided to look into. We can then see the point "13 Jun 2018: Sarah Newton voted against largely retaining the EU "Charter of Fundemental Rights" as part of UK law following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union." I would be very interested to understand your motivations behind this vote. I understand that things can be rewritten but it seems to me that that just adds further unnecessary bureaucracy to the billions already being spent on the civil service. 

I would also appreciate your opinion on a People's Vote. I also agree that even though Vote Leave won through lies and deception, it was the democratic result. I do not believe in negating and disregarding the views of the millions of people who did vote to leave. This is why (amongst a vast number of other reasons) I will not vote for Jo Swinson and the Lib Dems. However we are in the fortunate position that referendum result is not legally binding, and I wholly believe that a People's Vote with the option to remain, or leave after being shown the deal is the only democratic answer. 

Regards,
Chloë

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