It is the same story every week: the two main parties talk at cross-purposes and Nick Clegg is heckled whenever he stands up. Cameron asks only about resignations and elections, Brown talks only about numbers and Government policy. Each accuse the other of being an unfit leader on the grounds that they will not respond to each other's comments. Brown has no control over his party, Cameron has no policy direction. Labour MPs stand up and wax lyrical about the great government initiatives in their constituency as if they are throwing scraps of meat in a show of solidarity, Conservative MPs stand up and ask about elections, parroting the words of their leader.
Nobody on either side of the house mentioned the expenses scandal until it was clear that everyone was embroiled. Nobody dared to take the moral high ground.
The only serious question that has been raised in the last month was William Hague on the Ghurkas.
British politics is currently uninspiring at best. It is not the expenses scandal that has particularly shaken my trust in the political system though, it is instead the realisation that even the House of Commons is treated as a forum for a shallow PR exercise.
Nobody on either side of the house mentioned the expenses scandal until it was clear that everyone was embroiled. Nobody dared to take the moral high ground.
The only serious question that has been raised in the last month was William Hague on the Ghurkas.
British politics is currently uninspiring at best. It is not the expenses scandal that has particularly shaken my trust in the political system though, it is instead the realisation that even the House of Commons is treated as a forum for a shallow PR exercise.
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