Posts Tagged ‘House of Commons’
Decade of distrust reaches an end
The 2000s began with the end of Bill Clinton's US presidency limping out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They finished with the UK House of Commons facing a collapse of public trust which is set to result in 1/3-1/2 of MPs leaving or losing their seats in the 2010 General Election, and trust in politicians at an all time low of 13%, according to [...]
Election talk: fluff
Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for. But neither Brown nor Cameron, nor yet the Daily Telegraph, seem ready to face the real crisis: politics in Britain is broken, and it needs fixing fast. But what, and how? What kinds of Prime Minister are there? I made a little list: [...]
Reforms fall short
Sir Christopher Kelly's report offers a bare minimum of reforms but fails to address the fundamental issues with parliamentary funding — that the rich are still advantaged when it comes to being an MP, and the tax-payer hands over cash with poor value for money when it comes to what MPs actually achieve. Essentially — if you don't have time [...]
Crowdsourcers shame Telegraph
Crowdsourcing -- an idea that suggests that many people working on their own on a collective project can accomplish great things -- has put paid to the Daily Telegraph's claims that only the vast resources of a major commercial newspaper could possibly have uncovered MP expenses abuse. And it has done it through the mediation of the Telegraph's [...]
