A vote for repression

We have become used to the Government treating us with absolute contempt while the average MP is given hardly any more consideration than the rest of us by an Executive which sees itself as beyond both criticism and the reach of Parliament.

Yet when our elected members have the chance to say to the Government that enough is enough and that the rights of Parliament and democracy are paramount, transcending partisan politics, what happens? Enough Government toadies and lickspittles scurry though the aye lobby to make sure the Government survives. I hope the yes men remember that when they get the knock on their door.

The inquiry into Police marching into Westminster and searching the office of an MP and taking away confidential documents, many involving constituents whose rights have been reached, has been effectively shelved with a hand picked bunch of Labour jobsworths issuing a whitewash report sometime long in the future on a day when it can be hidden beneath other news.