KEIR Starmer’s message that the culture of politics needs to change was delivered this week with all the wide-eyed intensity of someone who had…
KEIR Starmer’s message that the culture of politics needs to change was delivered this week with all the wide-eyed intensity of someone who had just experienced a shocking epiphany.politics might just be rotten to the core is he really the man we want to trust with running the country for the next five years?
So huge is their sense of entitlement they simply refuse to be shamed into conforming to the same rules and morality by which the rest of us live our lives. They cannot be encouraged to do the right thing simply because they are incapable of recognising what that might be. It seems to me obvious that MPs should not benefit financially from their use of public money yet that’s exactly what they did without a second thought, leading to the MPs’ expenses scandal. It seems to me obvious that MPs should not seek to win money through betting on events which they can potentially influence, yet it seems that some of them did exactly that without their political radar sounding any alarms.
A narrative began to emerge that they were underpaid and that the misuse of expenses was provoked by that. I remember serious suggestions that one way of tackling the scandal was to give MPs a pay rise.has not been impervious to financial scandals but I think it’s fair to say that the very different atmosphere of the Scottish Parliament has made it easier for politicians there to keep their feet on the ground and remain closer to the values of the voters.
But I do believe Westminster encourages politicians to believe too strongly in their own and their colleagues’ infallibility and power. You can see this in a string of financial scandals and in their willingness to overrule legislation on devolved issues passed by majorities in other parliaments.It is not – as the Unionist parties insist – a distraction from the big issues such as the cost of living crisis.
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