If you are no good at your job or go against its rules and regulations, you expect to be punished.
It often works on the 3 strike system...verbal warning, written, final then OUT or something of that order. No one who lives in the real world can dispute the sense of this.
But our ruling personnel - the politicians - who we have trusted with our governance by exercising something called democracy at the ballot box, do not agree. In fact most of them are are so ungrateful as to ignore us completely...oh bother...what can we do about it?
The answer of course is a big fat nothing, zilch, rien, call it what you will! Our men at Westminster don't live by the rules which we have to obey. OK, most have to tow their party line but they only get a slap on the wrist whereas if we transgress it's normally a capital offence.
But wait...there's light at the end of the tunnel. I've just read in my paper dated June 5 that in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal, to assuage public anger, all three main parties had pledged to introduce something called 'power of recall' whereby constituents could present a petition ostensibly to sack an MP who they believed had demeaned their office. Yes, you heard, sack them, WHOOPEE!
Hey, hold fast a minute, it sounds too good to be true - and it is! The petition must include 10 per cent of all registered voters - typically 7000 - and that might be pie in the sky considering the abysmal voter turnouts at general elections.
Just imagine that this threshold is reached it then has to pass another litmus test whereby a committee of MP's have to decide whether their colleague's misdemeanour was serious enough to merit a by-election.
So you still think there's a chance of your voice being heard? Watch out for those low flying pigs.
Marking one's own homework and closing ranks are two expressions which readily come to mind.
It often works on the 3 strike system...verbal warning, written, final then OUT or something of that order. No one who lives in the real world can dispute the sense of this.
But our ruling personnel - the politicians - who we have trusted with our governance by exercising something called democracy at the ballot box, do not agree. In fact most of them are are so ungrateful as to ignore us completely...oh bother...what can we do about it?
The answer of course is a big fat nothing, zilch, rien, call it what you will! Our men at Westminster don't live by the rules which we have to obey. OK, most have to tow their party line but they only get a slap on the wrist whereas if we transgress it's normally a capital offence.
But wait...there's light at the end of the tunnel. I've just read in my paper dated June 5 that in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal, to assuage public anger, all three main parties had pledged to introduce something called 'power of recall' whereby constituents could present a petition ostensibly to sack an MP who they believed had demeaned their office. Yes, you heard, sack them, WHOOPEE!
Hey, hold fast a minute, it sounds too good to be true - and it is! The petition must include 10 per cent of all registered voters - typically 7000 - and that might be pie in the sky considering the abysmal voter turnouts at general elections.
Just imagine that this threshold is reached it then has to pass another litmus test whereby a committee of MP's have to decide whether their colleague's misdemeanour was serious enough to merit a by-election.
So you still think there's a chance of your voice being heard? Watch out for those low flying pigs.
Marking one's own homework and closing ranks are two expressions which readily come to mind.
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