Corrupt targets
It will make the parliamentary expenses scandal look like stealing sweeties from the tuck shops of the privileged schools that most of them attended.
The ordinary citizens will demand constitutional reform on a scale not seen since the 1640s.
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Hide AdA rapid transition to full proportional representation for the Lords and Commons will only be the start of it.
Although that, per se, won’t keep the paedophiles from creeping back into the seats of power it, and the police record and intelligence checks that current workers with children are subject to, it will be a first step in the right direction. It would make representatives a little less dependent on a party political patronage system, now seen clearly for what it is – a number of cartels which promote nothing before self-interest, sometimes fatally corrupted self-interest at that.
We must, eventually, find a better way of selecting those who make the decisions we all depend upon.
David Fiddimore
Calton Road