1718 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 05 July 2009
KHOODEELAAR! comment on the crisis of the UK Parliament:a short response to latest report by the London Times news organsation.
The evidence of your report yet again confirms the urgent need for the UK Parliament to become active in scrutinising Government Departments. It also reinforces the argument that all projects and schemes that the DfT aided in getting rubber stamped by and via Parliament directly and indirectly so far must be examined. And reexamined. Or scrapped if the DfT and its equivalent other Government Department in context refuses to cooperate. How many more heavy burdens of debt must be allowed to pile up because of Government departments’ antagonism to accountability before a ‘national awareness about the futility of Parliament’ ‘emerges’? Surely the first principle of democratic accountability must be to democratically prevail over the executive to ensure that the executive behaves to prevent wastes, losses and debts! What is stopping all those MPs who have been claiming to be above the expenses and other self-serving scandals from holding the Govt to account? How can it be good enough to just deride Adonis and other peers [and holders of Govt posts concerned] because of their lack of democratic legitimacy when those with the apparent democratic legitimacy [conferred in the fact of their being elected MPs] are volunteering to stay silent and fail to hold the likes of Adonis [and Mandelson et al] to account on a regular, manifest and noticeable way? What objectively honourable constitutional rule is there that says MPs cannot table and take to the logical conclusion any number of motions seeking to hold Ministers and the Govt as a whole to account? Why wait for the charade of the PMQs? What difference does that offence to accountability of Parliament to the electorate make?
[To be continued]
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