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Merrick
Merrick
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Re: OMG!!
Oct 22, 2003, 17:28
>blame your fellow constituents for not seeing >through her hollow character

It seems a tad harsh to put the blame for lies on those who heard the lies rather than those who told them.

And this principle ignores details like the fact that most people don't vote for their MP. How we mocked the US Presidential system for letting the loser take office, even though that's what the UK parliament does for the overhwleming majority of seats. Even Ken Livingstone's landslide victory as London Mayor - so obvious that bookies stopped taking bets on him - was the result of 13% of the electorate voting for him.

If your MP 'never follows his party's line and says everything he does is for his constituents' then he too is a liar.

He is lying by working to support a party whose aims and principles he opposes. He is also lying when he says everything's for the constituents. By being an MP you are part of the party muscle, you are part of the force with which their policies can be set forth. Many of these are nothing to do with the constituents.

The problem is that power attracts the power-hungry and it repels those who do not want to be involved in point-scoring and backbiting. As Lenny Bruce said, the only person fit to be President would be someone who'd never do it, someone you'd have to drag screaming into the White House and lock the door.
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