So, there you are. A mere taxpayer. You know that the Government taxes you a lot and you feel that you are lacking a democratic voice in a country with an unelected Prime Minister, a country that has been sold down the river to the European Empire, and where you are spied on 24/7 - at home and in public.
You listen to debates in the House of Commons and wonder what they mean because nothing down here in civilian street ever seems to change - things only seem to get worse and worse and worse with an overbearing state now at tyrannical proportions.
Of course, what you do not see is Westminster Hall.
What is Westminster Hall? Who goes there? What do they talk about? What power do the people in it have?
Quite important things to ask yourself, when a key debate about British civil liberties and human rights takes place there.
Why is a key debate on civil liberties taking place in Westminster Hall?
Why is that debate not taking place in the House of Commons?
Where is the open democracy by showing us what is being said? Buried on Parliament's website...
How do we learn what the said debate is going to change?
Now, we do not wish to be harsh - quite the opposite. The debate was an interesting one and we want more of it. Moreover, we would like action to come from all of the talking and for the executive to be reigned in. Forthwith.
But this blogger only knows that the debate took place because we subscribe to the news RSS feeds on the Parliament website.
How is that debate going to reach a wider, apathetic public which grows more cynical each day?
And after all of the words, what action will be taken to reign in the overbearing executive and stem it's reign of tyranny..?
This blogger would like to praise and encourage Andrew Dismore MP and David Howarth MP in particular for their contributions to the debate held yesterday.
But what does it mean? Where does it lead? What actions will come of it?
Just what is Westminster Hall? What power does it have? How do debates there fit in with our constitution and legislature?
People should be told... no?
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