The Bishops' 'marching on London' puts the poverty of Parliament in factual perspective. Parliament is dead. It does not speak the truth...

This AADHIKARonline page was last edited at 2240 GMT London Thursday 24 July 2008


KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business, poverty-creating, Crossrail hole plot agenda....

Commentary on the poverty of parliament, at 2235 Hrs GMT London Thursday 24 July 2008: This Timesonline item one is being relayed here just for the sheer irony of the headline. Not even for the full headline. Which reads, “Bishops march on London over deadline to halve poverty”. The part of the headline that is most telling is, “Bishops march on London’.

And what is so important about that headline and the relevant fact? The significance is that there is no political party in Britain any more. That MPs, those allegedly elected, allegedly representative of the people in the ‘mother of parliaments’, the ‘Palace of Westminster’...

The poverty of Parliament is not at all new. The Palace of Westminster IS about creating poverty...Not, of course, for its ‘members’. They are rolling in allowances and in lists including the John Lewis List... The Palace of Westminster creates poverty for the people out in the community Or rather out in the country.....And yet the Palace of Westminster persists.... That the poverty-creating parliament at Westminster persists in being is another irony. This one is a big symbol of what is wrong with political institutions.... The word poverty when used about the Place of Westminster is not just a plain word . It is poverty on every level. Spiritual poverty. Intellectual poverty. Moral poverty. Ethical al poverty. Poverty of such depth and magnitude that cannot be allowed to persist if the place, the P;lace of Westminster, the so-called British Parliament has to have any claim to legitimacy. legitimacy in full as the place that has any mandate from the people... While it is perfectly tolerable as a one-off diversion that the Bishops have staged now, the point is that they are not the makers of any legislation.... They did not, as Bishops, have any concerted say about the Crossrail Bill that has just been given the formal [so-called Royal] assent in the name of the Queen.. The point is that those who do have a vote, that is to say, those who do have an recognised right to have a say in the Parliament, have not been exercising that right. Not speaking about poverty...... And those who do appear to mildly, ever so mildly,do so do so with manifestly embarrassing LACK of identity with the whole concept of democracy... They do so with pathetic routine... Like some who are posing to oppose the Heathrow Extension.... Their words are not enough. Their evidence is not even seen anywhere in Parliament... They do not want to risk anything.. Most certainly not risk their career as MPs [or indeed as PEErs!] ......................... [To be continued]