Tuesday 19 December 2023
Where’s the focus?
Conservative MP Miriam Cates is being investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over claims she has caused "significant damage to the reputation" of the Commons and its members.
The probe was confirmed on the watchdog's website, though details of the allegations have yet to come to light.
We don’t know what this is about because it’s secret. Maybe Ms Cates is far-right or something, although I hear she goes to church, so maybe that's it. Yet how is it that the UK permanent administration isn't under the spotlight? Aren’t there vastly bigger issues with the fingerprints of the permanent administration all over them? Yes there are, lots of them.
How about HS2 as a starter? Tens of billions down the tubes there but how about the hundreds of billions thrown to pandemic winds or the hundreds of billions Net Zero seems to be racking up or the unsustainable immigration levels, failed housing policies, crumbling roads, inadequate NHS, failing schools and increasingly bizarre universities.
Where’s the focus?
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If someone had damaged the reputation of the commons, then presumably we would have all known about it and the nature of the damage wouldn't have been kept secret from us. The secrecy of the process is proof of her innocence.
It reads like a surrealistic political fantasy, a "Catch 22" for our times. If it were April 1st I could understand it better.
How the hell do you damage the reputation of wastemonster? That would be akin to denigrating Stalin. Mind you, are we permitted to denigrate anything these days or do the offence monitors not like it up 'em?
From the Grauniad:
"Greenberg is investigating eight MPs, with the inquiries dating back to June. Seven are Conservatives, including Eleanor Laing, the deputy speaker, and Bernard Jenkin. The eighth is the former Tory Andrew Bridgen, who now sits for Reclaim."
This does seem a little lopsided when there are MPs of other parties making strong statements too (but more in keeping with the desires of the Establishment perhaps?).
It looks like control of speech rather than investigation of "standards".
"Yet how is it that the UK permanent administration isn't under the spotlight?"
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Sam - yes it does read like a surrealistic political fantasy. There is a sinister mission creep aspect about it, with only a few bad actors needed to push it further.
Jannie - the outcome could be interesting because it can't be easy to damage the reputation of wastemonster. Nothing springs to mind without venturing into the bizarre.
DJ - it looks like that to me too. Speech control would be my guess at the most likely outcome.
James - and if it isn't now it never will be.
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