The same old same old

The working of Parliament is strange to behold. This evening a debate followed by a vote was held on selling of land assets by London Transport to cover the shortfall in revenue and government subsidy. 

The debate was to amend the fire sale of extremely valuable land in London to a range of developers who wish to increase the long list of expensive accommodation for the rich, often from overseas, to invest their ill gotten gains, especially the hot money flowing into a poorly scrutinised financial empire which is the City of London. There are billions of pounds up for grabs and the initial debate simply asked for a list and a valuation of all these assets which London Transport prepare to sell so that proper public scrutiny could be made and adjudicated.
The decentralisation of power to the London Mayor secures power in the hand of the Mayor (Boris Johnson) who in my observation of his his performance in the Mayors chamber seems ill fitted for the role.
One gets the impression that the support for these assets, sold at knock down prices comes from the usual places, it comes from the pals of those hungry developers who sit on and behind the Government benches.
Parliament represents a closed shop and with it a closed mind.
Parliament these days ill represents the interest of the people and clearly, with a total lack of proper opposition, as New Labour, the brain child of Tony Blair (who has been described as son of Margaret Thatcher) does not hold the Conservative government to task in matters like this.
Is it a lack of interest or is it a result of the parliamentary Labour Party drawing its members from a university educated middle class have ditched the working class for the middle ground where it believes the floating vote comes.
Only Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway had any fight in them and only Galloway mouthed the contempt he felt for the coterie of self interest that the cosy benches of parliament have, over the years produced. Galloway reminds me of those stalwarts of the first Socialist Labour Party Government under Clement Attlee. Members such as Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, men who didn't mix their metaphors and argued the case against the Establishment with vigour and commitment. It must be so disheartening for their ghosts to see the dismemberment of valuable public assets to the same old faces by the same old people !!!