Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Tory MP found guilty of corruption. Tory government passes law so that said MP would not be guilty after all. A Bill that said MP voted for. And now said MP wants to sue head of commission that found him guilty.

Democracy in the UK means flaunting one's majority in the knowledge that a majority excuses everything. Independent checks and balances are to be discarded in the promotion of more democratic authority.
Democracy in the UK has always been something of a veneer to give the ruled some sort of perception of a stake in the country after the previous tropes of religion and then Patriotism failed to be enough: let in a handful from the countryside mainly landed gentry and ensure that the true counter-jumpers are either intimidated by the pomp, bribed by the system or isolated so that they can change nothing.

The system isn't broken - it is working extremely well. If Labour were to get in, they might make some small changes which would be massively discussed but until the very method of voting is uprooted then everything else is window dressing.