I notice my M.P. friends have now chosen yet another speaker for The House of Commons , using yet another complicated closed system of voting which will probably go on forever and ever and ever at the taxpayers expense :)
In my opinion - to renew any kind of public confidence - the new speaker needs to be beyond reproach and scrupulously clean , but the unbelievable thing is –
all the potential candidates for the speakers position have been involved in the expenses row , as are the majority of people who will actually vote for them !!!
So in essence we are replacing the corrupt with the corrupt , whilst using a system
of voting only the corrupt can participate in ………….marvellous ………..!!!
Saying that - there are a few M.P’s who were not implicated in this scandal , so I reckon one of them should become speaker , which will at least break the cycle of all those who are involved , voting for each other to try and return the status quo .
This of course hasn’t happened , and we have yet another idiot who seems to be pre occupied with stopping M.P’s shouting and behaving like spoilt children in The Commons , which is fine and well but I somehow think there are possibly more pressing matters……………………….
There is of course the usual empty talk of a committee being set up to look in to the whole expenses affair …………blah …..blah ……blah ……………..
Now here’s some thing for you –
Instead of the usual friendly faces armed with their pots of whitewash , appoint a panel of impartial taxpayers to sit and judge.
Me .........................I’d have my black hat out…………………:)
