The forgotten arguments since Boris's hollow Brexit bus.

To make a decision on Brexit MPs have the unenviable task of weighing two incompatible realities:

• Leaving the EU gives back to the UK electorate the right to hire and fire those that govern them.

• Leaving the EU will cause years and years of economic disruption on a scale that we have not seen since the 1920s.

Below: Tony Benn puts the democratic case for leaving the EU

More on the EU:

• Brexit could take 10 years and might not happen at all
• Will the UK ever leave the EU? 
• The European Union IN or OUT

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What's your question to the Prime Minister?

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, is embarking on a new style of politics that actively seeks to do something that politicians really ought to have be doing all along - represent the people.

I remember picking up my first politics text book in the 80s and it informing me that politics is about two things: government and representation. The trouble is that, when I listen to David Cameron he sounds too much like an old fashioned English aristocrat, a man who believes we should trust him to do what's best for us and, frankly, let him get on with it.

This is the way Conservatives do government, it's a political movement that attracts people that prefer politicians to do their thinking for them and are more than happy to defer to the views and obey those, that appear so "naturally" born to rule.

Well, I disagree, David Cameron doesn't know best for me and after failing to win the votes of more than 25% of the people in 2010, has no right, in my view, to impose "what's best" for the vast swathe of individuals, over 75% of which didn't vote Conservative at all.

Jeremy Corbyn is trying to put this failure of our political system, our democracy's failure to adequately represent the people, right. With clever use of technology and social media, Jeremy Corbyn is reaching out to everyone and asking them for their opinions. Put simply, the newly-elected Labour leader believes that he will be in a better position to represent the people in Parliament if he knows what they think. Jeremy Corbyn asks: What do you want to ask David Cameron?  Jeremy will then use your question to inform what he asks the Prime Minister in public and live on TV every Wednesday. If you miss the live BBC broadcast at 12.00 - 12:30pm on Wednesday 16th September I'll upload it here for you:

So, what do I think Jeremy Corbyn should ask the Prime Minister in Parliament tomorrow? Perhaps the trickiest issue of all for the Labour Party and the country at the moment, is whether we should renew the Trident bomb. The cost  to the taxpayer of this nuclear upgrade is 100bn?  To help us decide whether this is good use of public money I have suggested this question for the Prime Minister:

What do you want to ask David Cameron?

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I am uncomfortable with the idea put about by Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, and even Hilary Benn, 
that the only way for Labour to win power is to appear more like the Conservatives. I prefer instead a Labour leader unashamed of socialist values and not afraid to challenge a political system that threatens the weak and impedes progress towards achieving a more equal society.

With more people suffering from austerity policies designed to clear up the mess left by the collapse of the banking system in 2008, now is not the time for Labour to give up on itself, or its core supporters.

If you believe in Conservative values, right-wing ideas on austerity, dismantling the Welfare State and privatising (contracting out) the NHS, then you already have a party to represent you. What I and millions of others would like is a political party that puts an alternative view. I want a leader of the opposition that votes against measures designed to damage the Welfare State set-up by the Labour Party after the Second World War and not one that supports the Conservative Party by sitting on their hands and abstaining.

The fact is that, unless David Cameron makes a calamitous mistake on one of the big issues the British public are stuck with a Conservative Government for the best part of another five years. What the Country needs right now is a strong opposition to Conservative ideas on Welfare, Housing, and Education and, in my view, the only candidate with the ideological backbone to challenge those ideas, is Jeremy Corbyn.