Saturday 16 May 2009

Organised Rage.

I turned on the radio this morning to yet more news of MP's and dodgy expenses. I remember the days when people used to laugh at the corruption of the french or italian political systems. No one is laughing now. The rage over the obvious stench of corruption emenasting from Westminster is now palpable and its time that the rage was organised. There should be an immediate general election and the existing parties should be challenged by a national citizens movement standing on one platform, a root and branch overhaul of the entire existing political system to ensure that all elected representitives, are made fully accountable to those that elect them and that all financial renumerations and outside interests are fully accounted and transparent.There should also be a complete overhaul of the current party system and public representitives should be subject to recall by those who elect them where they are failing to perform their duties adequately.There should also be a close look at whether the British constitution as it currently exists is adequate for the complexities of the modern world. If a national citizens movement obtained a majority it would exist for one parliament only and would then disband having achieved the tasks it was elected for.

Thats my suggestion for an answer to the present crisis. Others of course are always welcome.

JC

2 comments:

babyblox said...

The answer, surely, is to scrap the whole system of expenses and second home allowances and provide each MP with decent furnished accommodation close to Westminster together with the standard rail fare to and from their constituency. If they want any more, they pay for it. With a few notable exceptions, who are possibly guilty of fraud, the majority of MPs will probably be found to have committed no crime, but instead to have indulged in greed, hubris, and an immoral abuse of their privileges. To have done so at a time of unprecedented financial constraint only compounds their wrongdoing. To then excuse their abuses as ‘errors of judgement’ insults the public intelligence. There was a time when men of honour would have immediately resigned and the Queen asked to dissolve parliament, for indeed it is parliament, and not just this government, which has been shown to have sat too long. Sadly we are no longer dealing with men of honour. In the words of Cromwell, “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! You are no parliament”.

Anonymous said...

The biggest fraund of all was that Mr Blunkett claimed for a pair of binoculars and a motor bike!!