Sunday, May 17, 2009
Shop Steward of Sleaze
Melanie Phillips writes
"The Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, faces a cross-party no-confidence motion.
The speedy ejection of this bullying shop steward of sleaze is essential for the restoration of parliamentary health.
His disgraceful tenure of this ancient post, trying to thwart proper scrutiny and transparency of MPs' allowances, has done much to drag Parliament into the mire where it now wallows.
But his removal would be only a first step. Even the necessary root-and-branch
Only then would the core issue behind the wholesale collapse of parliamentary honour be addressed - and the ground taken from beneath the feet of the fringe parties.
But where is the mainstream statesman who will make such a pitch?"
IMO: The answer is that there is no suitable person in a crap country like the UK. In India, they have Mamata Banerjee for example but the UK is now too lacking in moral fibre. In the short term, vote UKIP and/or Libertas, I'd say. Anyway Martin will probably not go and the Tories are far worse - at least Martin has a vague idea what poverty is like, at some distance.
"The Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, faces a cross-party no-confidence motion.
The speedy ejection of this bullying shop steward of sleaze is essential for the restoration of parliamentary health.
His disgraceful tenure of this ancient post, trying to thwart proper scrutiny and transparency of MPs' allowances, has done much to drag Parliament into the mire where it now wallows.
But his removal would be only a first step. Even the necessary root-and-branch
Only then would the core issue behind the wholesale collapse of parliamentary honour be addressed - and the ground taken from beneath the feet of the fringe parties.
But where is the mainstream statesman who will make such a pitch?"
IMO: The answer is that there is no suitable person in a crap country like the UK. In India, they have Mamata Banerjee for example but the UK is now too lacking in moral fibre. In the short term, vote UKIP and/or Libertas, I'd say. Anyway Martin will probably not go and the Tories are far worse - at least Martin has a vague idea what poverty is like, at some distance.
# posted by uv : 7:19 PM
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