A video I posted in the comments of my last post, just wouldn’t allow me to let it lie.
Here’s the vid again:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjorjwfnZ0
1m18s :
“Nothing can be further from the case”
– strangely, the correct word, ‘truth’, escaped him. Who’d have thought.
1m38:
“It is absolutely essential for parliamentarians that they should have a sense of security that they’ll not going to be pursued by the police for dong their job. Without that our democratic institutions are going to be jeopardised.
This isn’t about some “special” status for form MP’s. It’s about providing them with the protection under the law which should be extended to every citizen but it is recognising that members of parliament have a special role to play in holding the government to account.
That’s our intention.
Typical beguiling establishment slime; this convenient police raid (Dec2008) certainly wasn’t because someone was ‘doing his job’. What trickery pokery.
Our allegedly ‘democratic’ institutions are rotten to the core and practically non-functional. There are not in ‘jeopardy’ at all. Unless he meant they are in jeopardy of improving. Yes, that’s it. To feel good about a supposed police raid on an MP is in jeopardy of perturbing the Westminster slop.
It most certainly is about special cases for MP’s. Dominic Grieve, Shadow(y) Home secretary at the time, says this because there are some people that will think it is exactly about a special case. They thought that way because it certainly was about a special case.
‘should be extended to every citizen’ – SHOULD BE!. i.e. isn’t currently, and one suspects the wormtongue would be happy it it was ‘on paper only’!
I think that pixie-dust “opposition/accountability” point no longer washes. when have opposition MP’s held the govt to account and most importantly, when have they held the govt to account on issues that matter. E.g. Gulf war and saddling the people with billions of pounds of debt.
‘But it is about…’ – Ah, here comes the admission that it certainly was about a ‘special case for MP’s’ and what’s to follow is about the spin/PR on how to sell it.
All shoe-scraping stuff.
“That’s out intention” – That has as much integrity as a pre-election pledge.
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