The much quoted “freedom to operate in a democratic fashion” , seems to be the most often used phrase to justify our political masters lack of rules and regulations in their daily goings on within the U.K at the moment - noble words – but oh so empty .
This way of thinking is fine and good in a world free of corruption, lies and deceit , and I’m sure all things being equal we could all live under this ethos………..
………………..in Utopia……….. :).
The thing is , as you all know, human nature takes hold , and that’s why we have legislation to tame these excesses in the real world , we do something wrong we take the consequences and do not try and hide behind any kind of meaningless ( in this context ) “words of wisdom”.
This is all in the wake of yet another revelation that a substantial amount of our M.P.’s have second jobs , which they are apparently not happy about the public knowing about , for some strange reason !!! - maybe the message that they are paid by the public to actually democratically represent them , and not sit on the board of Mc Donald’s in public time doesn’t register with the “duck house set “.
Pragmatics - who I will cynically label - politicians , will vehemently state say there is currently no other alternatives to the political system we have in place , and pushing all the current scandals too hard , will undermine that system to the detriment of the country , hence my role reversal title of - Democracy Down the Barrel of a Gun , which fits this situation perfectly .
Personally I reckon - you can forget your historic bleatings and rose tinted spectacles in this particular case , about parliament being the mother of all democracy …etc ….etc , yes - maybe in the past it was , but now – I think not .
My main problem is statistically out of our 600 or so M.P’S , it seems an extraordinary amount of them seem to be corrupt, if the recent revelations are to be believed , and I just wonder what would happen if for example - the police let all the criminals they had caught in the country - off , if they paid back the money they had stolen , because in essence this is what is happening in Parliament , and this goes from the top to the bottom of all political parties – bar none.
I’m honestly sick to f**king death of writing about this subject – yes really – but not as sick of the hypocritical , untouchables who sit in their ivory towers dispensing their “wisdom” to the populus - thus I’ll persist ……………………………….
