The title of a post from Douglas Carswell, because the Murdochs have been ordered to appear before the Commons; that the Speaker insisted on a three-hour emergency debate and that MPs like Tom Watson have been making all the running; resulting in our rotten legislature getting off it's knees, Parliament thereby recovering it's purpose.
Well, I can only hope Douglas Carswell will forgive some rain falling on his parade when I say that I will only believe our legislature is getting off it's knees when I see Parliament actually attempting to rectify the situation whereby political party leader's iron grip on candidate selection is removed; when MPs begin to take notice of the current scandal of the misuse of power exercised by local authority's child protection services; when MPs cease obeying the directives of their whips on how they should vote; when the supposed new eurosceptic intake of Tory MPs begin making their views known; when MPs actually do begin to represent the views of their constituents, rather than their own; when MPs begin acting like adults in the House of Commons rather than trying to impersonate children in a kindergarten class; when MPs actually do decide to make Parliament sovereign, instead of just talking about it; when MPs force their party leaders to adhere to manifesto and other 'cast-iron' pledges; when MPs do finally exhibit a sense of principle and honour; when MPs who pontificate about devolving power returning those powers that they have usurped to the people, actually do just that......
Over to you......................
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to rectify the situation whereby political party leader's iron grip on candidate selection is removed
And people keep voting for it.
The party machine can only parachute in candidates if the local party organisations allow them to. they can always tell the PM or his attack dogs to fuck off and put up their own preferred candidate - I refer to Ken Livingston, the New Labour Party, Tony Blair and New Labour's preferred candidate - Ken Livingston slaughtered all of them.
A: Err, not strictly true with the tories.........
When the House of Commons to Herman Von rumpy pumpy to show up and explain his numerous venal schemes, then and only then will I believe that we have a Sovereign Parliament!
When pigs fly. Sorry, chaps, tumbrils are an effective but temporary solution.
When pigs fly. Sorry, chaps, tumbrils are an effective but temporary solution.
A: When pigs fly as LJH said!
LJH: So your solution is?
I hope you are to be very long-lived, Mr Wittering - I fear it may be some time before Hell freezes over (even allowing for all this global warming that we keep experiencing!).
It's very interesting what you say about the cast-iron grip the party leadership (of all parties) has on candidate selection - particularly in the Conservative party, which David Cameron is currently quietly purging of conservative/eurosceptic candidates. This seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the media (like lots of things that go unnoticed by them I suppose).
IE: Thank you for your wishes for my long life! I do indeed hope to see hell freeze over!
CP: As you say there are facts too numerous to mention that seem to escape the attention of the MSM!
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