Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Seek, and Ye Shall Find: Knock, and It Shall be opened unto You

I wrote to my own MP as follows:-

Dear Mary Foy,

As an ordinary, questioning member of your Constituency, can you endeavour to ascertain how to question, in person, in the House, the newly ennobled David Cameron, who is said to be the Foreign Secretary?

The Tory Prime Minister has placed this man so that, as far as I can tell, he cannot be brought to answer questions within the Commons.

I would therefore ask you, as my MP, if you are indeed content to allow someone who was most cavalier in his attempts to gain Treasury help for his employer, Greensill Capital; to act as our Representative across the world, to oversee National Security and GCHQ?

Yours sincerely,

Mike Cunningham

Now normally, this would probably never have been heard from again: but wait:- a Written reply to a Written Question:-
Mary Foy Labour, City of Durham

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will bring forward proposals to enable Members to directly scrutinise the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.Hansard source
(Citation: HC Deb, 19 December 2023, cW)
Penny Mordaunt Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

The Procedure Committee is conducting an inquiry into this issue and it would not be appropriate for me to pre-empt the conclusions of that inquiry. The Government will respond to the Committee’s recommendations in the usual way once they have published their report.

In small victories, the basics of good governance can be seen. In a nutshell, this, folks, is what Democracy is all about: to ensure that a lying, thieving, squirming Politician is made to answer to the Elected Representatives of The People.

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