We alrady have a physically disabled PM (Who is also mentally deranged) and look at the mess he's made of things the uselss cnut. The most powerful man in the country (Mandleson) is a shirt lifter and look how corrupt he is. Keith Vaz and a fair few other minority MP's seem to be at the forefront of the trough themselves. And as for some of the females in government, dishonest and incompetent to a man!

We need ex soldiers in Parliament, better still lets have serving soldiers in the commons, preferably rounding the corrupt b*stards up!

We need a coup.

Originally Posted by Markintime

Here's a revolutionary idea. 100% of candidates should be honest!

We should have a new criminal offence, in addition to misconduct in public office, let's have dishonesty as a member of parliament which covers everything from lying to false expenses to corruption and make it a minimum mandatory 5 year term.

Sounds good to me.

I never lost faith in Parliament, don't imagine I ever will. It's a lovely building, still structurally sound after all these years.

On a serious note, I doubt the public will ever recover their faith in our Parliamentarians and that's actually no bad thing, IMO. They get to pass laws that govern our lives and we should never, ever trust someone in that position. We should be looking over their shoulders every single step of the way or we get what we have now - a bunch of self-serving hypocrites who put themselves above the rest of us.

A massive dose of public mistrust, abject contempt and a cheeky wee general election may at least remind that particular caste of exactly who serves who.

Originally Posted by Markintime

Here's a revolutionary idea. 100% of candidates should be honest!

We should have a new criminal offence, in addition to misconduct in public office, let's have dishonesty as a member of parliament which covers everything from lying to false expenses to corruption and make it a minimum mandatory 5 year term.

Dream on. Politics and honesty are oxymorons!
But I like your idea for a new criminal offence, we could use it in the states too! Of course, there'd be no one left - guess we could outsource! Cheaper and better workers, as we are always told!

If only......
we had MPs who were honest and elected because they were concerned about the welfare of their constituents rather than the party (all a bunch of Communists whatever their flavour). I might then respect them regardless of race, creed, colour or gender.

I hope that one or two of our young disabled soldiers will find their way into politics in the fullness of time. To serve one's country as a soldier then battle with a smashed body and carve a political career, what an MP that would be!

Any MP who been dishonest and committed a crime must be punished to the maximum extent of the law and receive the max penalty.
For they are not Ordinary criminals, they are people who have been entrusted to Make the Law and then abused the system for personal profit.
Not until Parliament has been seen by the British people to have sorted out the criminals in their midst can Parliament ever be trusted again.
john
Of course it will never happen.

And of course remember that Harridan Harperson wants positive discrimination for Northerners too. I only hope that Northern pragmatism means that they want to DO things rather than TALK about doing them as Liz Hunt said in yesterday’s Torygraph.

At this rate, bearing in mind my background, I’m never going to get a job unless I play up the Mick part of my ancestry…

I notice that no-one has suggested that Gipsies become MP's.If they are good enough to become Coppers......

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

I notice that no-one has suggested that Gipsies become MP's.If they are good enough to become Coppers......

WHAT??? They're lazy, dishonest, unpopular, avoid paying taxes and think the entire world owes them a living... seems to me they're OVER qualified.