With the elections looming here in the UK, and with no one really interested or so it seems! Tom Wright spoke very interestingly to the Houses of Parliament.
Speaking in the Houses of Parliament last night, the Rt Rev Tom Wright said the expenses scandal was only the “tip of the iceberg of a disillusionment” with the political process, and warned that the Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war had done nothing to decrease the disillusionment.
He said: “Ever since the massive majorities of Margaret Thatcher, for most of the last generation we have had governments that could, and did, effectively ignore parliamentary process, with a very small number of people, sometimes only one, taking key decisions which nobody dared to oppose and which were rammed through Parliament with scant regard for proper debate.”
The above is an interesting and seemingly true statement, there does not seem to be much of a dialogue in parliament little alone a parliamentary process. We just have to look at British Politics over the last twenty or so years and in particular the last 12!
Nt's Speech can be read here, and We should all be praying that our politicians pay heed!
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