As has been ably commented upon elsewhere, Gordon Brown’s reported stab at electoral reform smacks a bit too much of hastily applied porcine lipstick.
What has pissed off electors – and mostly Labour supporters – is the comfy closed-shop arrangements that MPs appear to enjoy at public expense once elected and not the means by which they get their meal tickets.
The challenge therefore is to introduce new rules of probity and transparency at Westminster that can satisfy the public’s requirements but which can also maintain the system of privilege (in the proper sense) that prevents external intervention in the workings of parliament by any government or their creatures.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment