Caroline Lucas Guilty Of Breaching House Of Commons Rules.

[ladybirder]

Wish I had seen this earlier before a load of Comments got removed.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18319194.caroline-lucas-breached-house-commons-rules/

Is "Sorry I won't do it again" enough?

[Canary42]

No, IMHO it isn't. See my earlier thread re apologies replacing accountability.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1698401.html

[jno]

as far as I know, MPs are allowed to take constituents around Parliament anyway. Suggesting you'd only do it for money (and perhaps for people who aren't constituents) makes it dodgy. A slightly greyish area, so the apology is probably approopriate.

The Tories were getting millions in donations - and Labour getting a lot too - and presumably hoping for a lot more than a tour in return. So I can see why a member of a minority party might want to find money wherever she could.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50752066

[Spicerack]

Lol. Left wing people are like children. Bless.

[douglas9401]

Is this the very definition of 'green and folding'?

[ToraToraTora]

how hard up can she be, I mean, can't make much from a guided tour and MPs are on £80k aren't they, not rich I grant you but you can live on it.

[ladybirder]

It seems to be accepted around here that her and her husband are very well off although I don't see what that's got to do with it.

[jno]

TTT, she wasn't making money from the tours, but soliciting donations, fairly small-scale ones, before the election.

She was asking £150. Compare with, say Jeremy Hunt, who got a bulk discount on buying seven flats from a Tory donor; he also apologised.

The real issue seems to be the vast amounts that can be legally donated and the difficulty small parties have in getting any of it. The rich get richer.

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "The real issue seems to be the vast amounts that can be legally donated and the difficulty small parties have in getting any of it." - there's a reason for that.....see if you can work it out!

[jno]

of course there is. But see my last sentence and ask yourself if buying influence is a good way forward for democracy.

[Peter Pedant]

cant do the article
what she said - you can only go to parliament on my signature if you pay me?

I am not surprised her voters complained

[Peter Pedant]

// her and her husband are very well off although I don't see what that's got to do with it.//

er - vote for me coz I am tray reesh and I want mooooore!

no- that wouldnt get me to vote for her

[jno]

not exactly, PP, she was offering a guided tour to anyone who donated £150 to her election campaign. Whether she'd do the same for anyone who didn't pay a penny, the story doesn't say.

[tomus42]

When benefits cheats can be let off if they apologise then it'll be ok for politicians. Until then, no it's not enough.