KITTY USSHER’S RESIGNATION – LIB DEMS DEMAND BY-ELECTION
June 17th, 2009 | 
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LIBERAL Democrats in Burnley – already well-placed to take over from Labour MP Kitty Ussher at the next General Election – have called for her to resign immediately from Parliament so that voters can have their say on who they want to represent them.
Burnley Council leader and Parliamentary candidate Gordon Birtwistle said that if Liberal Democrat reforms of Parliament were made law, Kitty Ussher would be sacked by voters who would then choose her replacement.
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Coun Birtwistle said, “I am bitterly disappointed that there won’t now be a public fight. Burnley people have been fed up of her antics for some time and the writing was already on the wall.
“Liberal Democrats took five of Labour’s six seats on the County Council here two weeks ago, we topped the poll here in the European elections and we took majority control of the local Council last year.
“With Vince Cable proved right on the economy, our entire party proved right on Iraq, and only the Liberal Democrats fighting hard over the downgrading of our local hospital, it is quite clear who the political competition is in Burnley.
“But the main thing is the people of Burnley now have to put up with inadequate representation until the Prime Minister sees fit to call a General Election. That is no way to run a modern democracy. People want to see her sacked now, and our reforms would allow them to sack her themselves.”
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is pushing for reforms that would enable voters to “recall” an MP who they felt had let them down badly, and for the date of each General Election to be fixed in advance.
Kitty Ussher took her position as a minister just seven days ago, the second time she had worked as a junior Treasury minister, but says that she is stepping down due to the pressures of running a young family.
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