Let voters run country
IF anyone is to blame for the fuss over MPs' expenses, it is the British electorate who are not being compelled to vote on this issue but are quite happy to vote every five years then sit back and hope for the best.
What is required is a voters' democracy, to run alongside the parliamentary democracy we now have.
It will, of course, mean a lot more voting in referendums on subjects such as going to war, the EU, Trident missiles, capital punishment, immigration and non-elected quangos, to name a few.
Parliament could then concern itself with decent housing for everyone, good education, first-class health care, decent pensions and care for people when they grow old.
Wages for MPs should be linked to the national average wage, while their expenses and pensions should be the same as civil servants' – which, indeed, is what they are.
All these proposals along with, perhaps, proportional representation, would lead to voters telling Parliament what to do and not Parliament telling us what we can and cannot do.
I hope it is widely known that MPs are allowed to smoke in the House of Commons bar. If they do not mind it, I am sure there are thousands of workers who would be happy to work under these
conditions.
It is said that for evil to prevail, it only needs good men to do nothing. Any credible political party with these proposals in its manifesto would, in my opinion, win the next election by a landslide.
Keith Pickering
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