Tim Walker
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https://thattimwalker.substack.com/ 27-07-2009 14:07:16
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As with Ed Davey etc with the Post Office scandal, ministers will blame the businessmen and women they worked with re #Grenfell. Convenient, but I know of no other business relationship where the ‘client’ has no responsibilities, no need to ask questions. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…
Yes Tim Walker I agree. It’s the politically appointed peers that we should pay attention to. Perhaps limit their term to five years? And only extend if the public judges they have been conspicuously useful.
Tim Walker True but no other democracy allows life long paid legislators by hereditary descent. The whole UK House of Lords (if a bicameral system is deemed essential, a debate nobody entertains) should be replaced by a majority elected Senate.
Tim Walker They're in the wrong house Ought to be in the jail house for lowering standards which led to Grenfell
Problem we have in journalism now is there are so many journalists commenting - invariably predictably - on what we all know has happened. Too few journalists see it as their job to find out what is actually happening and tell us what we don't know. theneweuropean.co.uk/its-time-for-m…