Monday (8th Dec), was another classic example of a de-facto elected dictatorship; and, the utter futility of the Commons. If any citizen wanted a reason not to bother visiting a ballot box, Monday in the Commons will be your best excuse.

Please, just read this link. Particularly, 4.1 TERM. JR complains about our parliament having frequent holidays, read how the US constitution stops congress from adjourning for more than three days. Notice that Congress has an election every two years. When the voters have an opportunity to show their approval, or disapproval, of their government at this frequency, politicians tend to take more notice of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress#Term

Even so, I hugely enjoyed David Cameron’s excellent speech this morning to, of all places, the leftie LSE.
He made all the right noises and even gave three reasons to cut back the state! He then went to say exactly how he intended to do it.
At the end, I was only able to listen to two of the usual questions which he fielded efficiently and tersely.
I hope that he continues this sort of thing. He is really talented at it, and he has got a workable plan which will achieve the historic Conservative task of putting back what Labour has taken out of the life of our country.

” … in case I get modded again” …. do you mean by John or government IT patrollers ? John is an advocate of free speech and opinion, not a biased, prejudiced ‘moderator’.

Is the Speaker failing in his duties of ensuring matters of concern to Opposition MP’s are afforded the time required for full and open ‘democratic debates’ ?

I cannot imagine Betty Boothroyde would have stood for labour’s attitude. Is the ‘Speaker’ democractically elected ? I ask because the current Speaker appears to be a spineless ‘yes man’ to labour’s ‘fancies’.

Reply: The government decides the business. Sensible governments consult and listen to what the Opposition suggests. This government doesn’t, and has the votes to do as it wishes.

We are supposed to live in a democracy. The government should never have the power to set the rules of the debate or the amount of time for a debate to suit them.

The government should be invited to speak to the people on its actions todate and on its plans for the future of Britain’s economy but if it isn’t willing then alternative speakers and economists could be found.

The people could be let in on this debate if it had a studio audience and emails to the debate.

It could be the mother of all debates on Britain’s economic future and permit both sides to fairly get their message across to the British public in contrast to the snippets they get now from media spokespersons such as I need not mention in case I get modded again.