Thursday 3 December 2015

I say throw away the key

Parliament is a funny old game. Listing yesterday to the indignation that certain MPs had because, according to them, there was not enough time being provided by the Leader of the House to debate the proposed air strikes which the government wish to launch against ISIS.
Today we had the debate.
There is a majority in the House who are for the strikes but there are a significant number, including Jeremy Counyn the Labour Party leader, who ask the question "what then" ?
After Cameron's restatement of his and the governments position to go in and bomb, Corbyn tried to define his opposition, specifically noting the ineffectuality of bombing alone with no troops being put in the firing line. It's only outcome according to him would be a greater number of civilian casualties which will only inflame the local and world wide Muslim community.
His demeanour at the dispatch box has become a problem. He wishes is discus and debate in a chamber that wants nothing to do with him. He is not significantly aggressive to cut through the brutish baying from the Tory side. He wants them to play fair when that is the last thing a politician knows how to do.
They call this a debate but this is nothing more than a chamber 'to hear your own voice' as each politician gets to his or her feet and delivers a monolog. It doesn't matter how well prepared a speech is, no one listens to what is said, the lines are drawn along Party lines and the only interaction between the politicians is the heckling which goes on as they try to destroy the delivery of what ever is being said.
It's a farce but a farce which is played out, day after day in the name of democracy. These are our representatives, we elect them to carry our views and effect the way we are governed. Bills pass through this parliamentary procedure to become law, the laws which we are supposed to follow in our ordinary lives. Laws which if we misbehave have the weight of the legal system behind then to make us conform and yet these lawmakers behave in a way that makes one want to lock them all up and throw away the key !!!

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