Douglas Carswell gives the useless, futile, unaccountable and smug House of Commons a Z-rating
Douglas Carswell MP has marked nearly four years as an MP with an A to Z guide to Parliament on his blog.
It amounts to an extraordinary attack on the "futility" of the Commons.
Here are some of his conclusions:
- A is for... Accountable, something many of our MPs are not...
- C is for ... Commons Committees, and all their spineless, executive-controlled futility....
- D is for ... Directives, the EU rules - issued despite Westminster - which really decide how Britain's governed...
- H is for .... Hansard, that record of evasion and bluster...
- P is for ... Pocket, as in “the Commons is in the pocket of government”...
- Q is for ... Quango, the unaccountable institutions that really run Britain...
- S is for ... Smug, self-satisfied, self-regarding SW1...
- U is for ... Useless, as in the House of Commons...
- V is for ... Vanity, which stops many MPs 'fessing up to the fact they no longer count for much...
- W is for ... Whitehall, which is to Westminster what puppet-master is to puppet...
- Z is for ... The grade I give our broken Westminster system after four years there as an MP.
Read the full A-Z here.
Tim Montgomerie
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