O/T:- Our representatives

[MarcusCole]

Not long after Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan resigns following a conviction for ***ually assaulting a boy aged 15 in 2008,
now tory Neil Parish MP goes after he 'broke the law', most likely, by watching **** in parliament, in front of his female colleagues at that.

I don't think there's any point moaning about politicians, after all they're OUR representatives and it's on the voters for electing them. As voters, we have to take more responsibility for who we vote for - if for example a party has a track record of giving us liars, pervs, fraudsters, abusers, criminals of every kind then we should make sure we don't vote for that party again - try something else, because we can't be represented by people like that.
That's my reaction anyway, ultimately it's the electorate's doing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/indepe...-b2069182.html

Maybe it is the optimist in me but at least they are getting caught.

I think the main issue is the loyalty of the MPs is first to the party rather than constituents so it is alll built on cronyism

[the_anticlough]

Maybe it is the optimist in me but at least they are getting caught.

Maybe Marcus, but the ferocity of how they try to cover up and delay everything, makes you think that what we hear about might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Like the Tory MP Oliver Paterson taking the Randox money, they even tried to change the rules to help him get away it.
I wouldn't have been surprised if Johnson had called for a law change about viewing p orn in public to make Parliament an exception!

Anyway, my main point was not 'party' political. It was that we, collectively, can't complain as we picked them to represent us - We've got to stop doing that, and we have to demand better