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which would give more clarity, but others voted to keep it ‘in house’.
I realise it came about because a Member of Parliament thought he hadn’t had a fair hearing, but it was a bit over the top to try and change everything.
There has been a huge U-turn, but the damage is now done and I am afraid it has removed any trust (such as I had) because I want to know what the ones who voted for the ‘in house’ policing have to (or want to) hide. The ones who ‘had’ to vote that way due to the Whip must salve their own conscience.
The Government represent us and are there because we put them there. They should be like Caesar’s wife, beyond reproach, completely without guile and malice.
I know they have to blur the lines a bit sometimes otherwise nothing would get done and we all have to compromise, but they seem to be telling us what to do all of the time which isn’t how it should work. The fact they even tried this trick shows us how stupid they think we are.
They also think the U-turn will fool us, but as far as I am concerned, the relevant MPs that want to hide things can be voted out again.
Mrs T Newman
Gloucester it’s no wonder popular support for this Johnson-led government has plummeted.
After all, it was almost exclusively Johnson’s – aided and abetted by Commons leader, Rees Mogg – usual treatment of parliament as some sort of pantomime, where his blathering, gesticulating self-importance is the only thing that matters.
We’re just coming into ‘Parliament week’ this week, when me and a small local group usually take to the High Street to advertise and promote interest and participation in our parliamentary democracy.
Sadly this year, because of Johnson’s narcissistic antics, nobody is any longer interested.
They all highlight how Johnson’s antics, especially in weekly
‘Prime Minister’s Question Time’, has completely turned them off Parliament from now on, as anything other than a talking shop where the Tory party’s 87-seat overall majority made it a Johnson-Cummings-ERG dictatorship.
Although the discredited and sacked Cummings has gone, and I had little time for him, he was the propaganda brains behind the Johnson rise to glory and it’s certainly worth noting how he, above all others, gave Select Committee testimony that he thought Johnson never a fit person to be prime minister.
Very much against the odds I expect many people can remember the acrimonious departure of powermad Thatcher in November 1990, primarily because of her persistence with the ridiculously unfair poll tax (now the council tax ).
In Tory ranks, much dependent on their millionaire so-called ‘grandees’ and donors, usually PMs don’t last long after their popular support evaporates, leaving many of us hoping for Johnson’s dutiful early departure forthwith.
Come on you grandees, time to do it again!
Alan Debenham
Taunton