I have asked this
question many times – What price be put on history? Something to
the tune of – We’ve always had the government, MPs in the Houses
of Parliament. But now it needs a costly uplift. Something to the
tune of £50billion. It is an interesting argument because London
itself would not like to lose the Houses of Parliament, frankly they
should as it is not fit for purpose. It cannot house all the MPs,
easily seen at PM’s Questions. It is like a chicken coup! Looking
at the so-called debating chamber (the one with the green leather
benches) one can easily come to the conclusion it is made for two
opposing parties. Moreover allowing these parties to continually
shout and gesture at each other. That surely is NOT proper politics?
To see Diane Abbott mouthing platitudes at the Home Secretary does
not really help I think. To continually hear 5 or 6 questions fired
from the Opposition Leader to the Prime Minister about some accident
that has befallen an unlucky resident of some flea-bitten
constituency surely is interesting to the victim but hardly will
solve the Syrian crisis or why the good Kim has come to the South to
partake of the food they haven’t got in the north of the Korean
peninsula? I believe that he wants to trade the nukes for some good
old-fashioned noodles. So, why not be a bit more modern and
fashionable? Move the MPs and the government apparatus out of London
altogether, say to Derby or York and into a circular type building?
Costs would be minimal compared to what they now intend spending on
Westminster. Make it a museum! And to fit in with the feelings of
nostalgia, still celebrate the opening of Parliament in Westminster
with all the pomp and then hightail it to Derby fast!
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