Comment by ClumsyPilot
2 years ago
In British parliament the most important people in the country get alcohol subsidised by the taxpayer. And they regularly find drugs in the bathroom.
You’d think that if anyone, these people would have to be sober.
2 years ago
In British parliament the most important people in the country get alcohol subsidised by the taxpayer. And they regularly find drugs in the bathroom.
You’d think that if anyone, these people would have to be sober.
If you assume what MPs do is all that important. They mostly just do what their told by their party leadership anyway, and the rest of the time they are making decisions about things they know nothing about.
Someone did a survey of how much MPs knew about economics and the results were dire, and they is something good many have been taught (all those PPE degrees!) and that is really important to them.
You're ignoring constituency work.
Do you have a source for the "someone"?
Here is one about economics: https://positivemoney.org/archive/mp-poll/
Here is one about very simple stats: https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2022/g...
They do important work for their constituents. Let's not insinuate MPs are irrelevant
Would you rather they were dispensed with and instead we have a dictatorship?
Not having MPs doesn't lead to a dictorship, dial it back. Not having MPs means that we don't have MPs,(hooray) and the opportunity to replace them with something alittle more equitable to the society they exist in, free of the influences of lobbying, cronyism, greed, power and rampant, unchecked hypocrisy. Personally, I want a new class of people, styled after monks that spend 20 years being schooled in social structure, land husbandry, city welfare etc. These are then cloistered for the term that they serve and can only be approached by the permanent Civil Service when required. The local consituants are served by local councillers, (probably all of whom are lib dem as they are unconsionably successful at local issues). Anyway down with parlimentary democracy, and have a nice Sunday.
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