Ta-ra a bit
Feb 20, 2020 22:06:26 GMT
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Post by Alexander W.G. Stewart on Feb 20, 2020 22:06:26 GMT
Good evening all,
I have managed to grab some reserve brain power to write to you on the forum as you deserve more than just a quick two liner on Discord. As of Monday this week I have moved across the UK and successfully transferred into a unit I've been eyeing up for some time. That said, I'm working some hellishly long shifts, and there isn't an end in sight at present; for the record I love my job I don't want there to be an end in sight! However, of course when I get home I'm pretty zonked truth be told and have no interest in debating politics and whatnot after a long day. Feasibly I could have stayed on as a Lord and occupied the seat as a second or third rate representative, however that's just not me. I can't bring myself to do that to you good people. Particularly at a time of exciting change with the introduction of constituencies formally, and I hope a move back to a more competitive electoral system with contested constituencies and hopefully, long term, a growth in democratically elected parliamentary sovereignty over the sovereignty of a rigid constitution; but perhaps wishful thinking on my part! Exciting times nonetheless.
To reiterate I'm not leaving or renouncing citizenship, only resigning formally from my role in Lords, and sitting back for a while and contributing as and when I can in a less formal and more opportunistic manner.
Thanks to those who have wished me well, and I look forward to continuing to observe as this region moves ever forward and onward.
In the words of the great Methodist Socialist leader Kier Hardie,
"if the isolated Ego of self gets the upper hand for a time he produces results so terrifying that the mistake of allowing him to rule is speedily made apparent"
I hope in making this resignation I am ensuring you are not lumbered with a shell of a representative more inclined to the title than duty.
God bless.
In service,
Alec
I have managed to grab some reserve brain power to write to you on the forum as you deserve more than just a quick two liner on Discord. As of Monday this week I have moved across the UK and successfully transferred into a unit I've been eyeing up for some time. That said, I'm working some hellishly long shifts, and there isn't an end in sight at present; for the record I love my job I don't want there to be an end in sight! However, of course when I get home I'm pretty zonked truth be told and have no interest in debating politics and whatnot after a long day. Feasibly I could have stayed on as a Lord and occupied the seat as a second or third rate representative, however that's just not me. I can't bring myself to do that to you good people. Particularly at a time of exciting change with the introduction of constituencies formally, and I hope a move back to a more competitive electoral system with contested constituencies and hopefully, long term, a growth in democratically elected parliamentary sovereignty over the sovereignty of a rigid constitution; but perhaps wishful thinking on my part! Exciting times nonetheless.
To reiterate I'm not leaving or renouncing citizenship, only resigning formally from my role in Lords, and sitting back for a while and contributing as and when I can in a less formal and more opportunistic manner.
Thanks to those who have wished me well, and I look forward to continuing to observe as this region moves ever forward and onward.
In the words of the great Methodist Socialist leader Kier Hardie,
"if the isolated Ego of self gets the upper hand for a time he produces results so terrifying that the mistake of allowing him to rule is speedily made apparent"
I hope in making this resignation I am ensuring you are not lumbered with a shell of a representative more inclined to the title than duty.
God bless.
In service,
Alec
