Don't let MPs swan off on holiday - there is work to be done (Fylde Liberal Democrats)

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Don't let MPs swan off on holiday - there is work to be done

May 30, 2009 3:58 PM

For years Liberal Democrats have been pressing for Parliamentary reform & have been thwarted by the self interested inertia of the Conservatives & Labour. The MPs' expenses scandal has now overturned old certainties, given Cameron another bandwagon to jump on, and made change possible. Characteristically, Cameron's proposals are a masterful example of well-judged rhetoric free of substance and conviction & are a guarantee that little will happen. The two establishment parties who will talk up reform long enough for the storm to pass, then kick it into the long grass for good.

Lib Dem Leader ,Nick Clegg, said: " This moment must be seized by all who want a different kind of politics. So let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out, and every nook and cranny of our political system has been reformed. People will say it isn't possible - parliament can't act that quickly. I say the innate conservatism that marks out our political establishment is part of the problem. Let's stop all this self-congratulatory hype about the mother of parliaments and get on with improving it."