NOTHING HONOURABLE ABOUT OUR CURRENT PRIME MINISTER

VIEWERS of broadcasts direct from Parliament will have got use to the rather archaic form of language used by MPs when they address the Speaker – Mr Speaker – since they are not allowed to address each other directly.

Names are not used but positions held, and many of them will by virtue of the posts they may hold will be referred to with the prefix “The Right Honourable”.

We have a Prime Minister who refuses to acknowledge, admit and accept that he has been found guilty of a civil offence.

We also have a prime minister who has deliberately misled members of Parliament and has lied to Parliament when he said he did not attend parties during a time when to attend such social gatherings was strictly against the law.

Breaking the law by attending a social gathering when they have been banned may not be seen a the most heinous of crimes.

To lie to Parliament is quite a different and much more serious matter. When it has happened – and it is a very rare occurrence – the member has resigned from office.

This Prime Minister has declined to do so and MPs in his own party excuses him on the grounds of reasons that I quite fail to appreciate, that he is indispensable to the wellbeing of the nation.

Surely his failure to honourably respond to such a serious breach should mean he forfeits the right to be addresses as The Rt Hon? Don Frampton