[andrewb]

Your ideas seem to have the same flaws as the current system though. What happens when something is voted on which isn't in the MP's manifesto? They get to choose themselves? Then you shall end up with gridlock. The MP's will start finding people they can vote with in order to get things passed, and then you start the formation of parties again..

Lets face it if it wasn't for the whips then government legislation wouldn't get passed on quite a few occasions, but that isn't a bad thing in my viewpoint, a heck of a lot of what the government pass is on their manifesto which they're elected upon and without whips we would have a weak government that would collapse every few months.