Roger Gale feels we the plebeian public have misunderstood.
Written by Matt B · first published 06/09/2011
North Thanet`s MP, Roger Gale has at about seven o'clock this morning email out to say that he has
Now forgive my cynicism but does sending out a press release even count as speaking out these days. If an MP opposes an idea and no one knows about it has he, in fact, opposed anything at all?
The knotty problems of philosophy aside for a moment my main objection to this latest utterance is how widely Gale (right) manages to entirely miss the point.
Gale writes
Well, duh! The media is not run for the benefit of the House. The media runs for profit alone - that means entertainment largely.
How can this
Rather than calling the access of TV camera's to the commons a mistake because business people put their business first our dear old dinosaurs need to pull their finger out and be the change they want to see.
Rather than telling us that the media's access to the work of the House has led to us all being
One thing is for certain though - if Gale wants to see full coverage of the workings of the House then he needs to campaign for the House to obtain sufficient channels to transmit the hum-drum and the every day. You never know someone might even watch it.
spoken out against proposals to permit the televising a part of some court hearings.
Now forgive my cynicism but does sending out a press release even count as speaking out these days. If an MP opposes an idea and no one knows about it has he, in fact, opposed anything at all?
Gale writes
When the proposition to televise the House of Commons was introduced I said that it would lead to “grandstanding” and to the cherry-picking of newsworthy items at the expense of the real work of the House.
Well, duh! The media is not run for the benefit of the House. The media runs for profit alone - that means entertainment largely.
How can this
former television producer and directorfail to understand that while the gatekeepers of information flow are all doing so only for profit then "the real work of the House" is hardly going to get full coverage now is it.
Rather than calling the access of TV camera's to the commons a mistake because business people put their business first our dear old dinosaurs need to pull their finger out and be the change they want to see.
Rather than telling us that the media's access to the work of the House has led to us all being
mis-informed (sic)- a claim I hotly dispute - perhaps Mr Gale would care to set the record firmly crooked on whatever matters he feels we the plebeian public have misunderstood.
One thing is for certain though - if Gale wants to see full coverage of the workings of the House then he needs to campaign for the House to obtain sufficient channels to transmit the hum-drum and the every day. You never know someone might even watch it.
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Carole Russell wrote:
Nameing and shaming was promised to the public, which never materialised.
Just taking the perprtraitors into a prison and letting them see what it is like, is no deterrent. They need to be given hard labour, or the stocks or a good flogging this is the best deterrent and has always worked in the past, not this pussyfooting around sending them into prison which is better than being in their own homes. There are computers, TV's, drugs alcohol, fags etc etc. everything they want (not need)
Kids who have nigh on kicked old men to death, stabbed a gay, stolen from charity shops, beaten up old pensioners just for a fix etc etc, need to have some kind of pain inflicted upon them, to teach them it is wrong to hurt others. They are not getting the discipline in their homes, teachers have had this freedom taken from them, so many parents have no idea how to bring up children or even care and we are left to put up with the violence, abuse, ASB and filth they leave everywhere they go.
They have to be severely punished, the laws of this country have to protect the majority who are the law abiding citizens of this country