Jacqui Smith and Darling Expenses - the final Straw? Cameron's time is up!

Surely now is the moment to clean up British politics? I was reminded yesterday of a post on the subject of donations in July 2007 when it had been announced that no prosecutions would follow the inquiries of Yates of the yard into the donations disgrace.

John Redwood, MP for Wokingham and one of the ever rarer thinking occupants of the green benches, posted some ideas on limits on his blog on 20th July 2007, linked here, titled "I want more change from David Cameron". I was drawn to comment and see no reason to detract from what I said back then, quoted herewith:

# Martin Coleon 20 Jul 2007 at 7:33 pm

I quote from the above, ‘We want a more honest politics’ - well said, indeed we do!

A start could be made by senior and long-sitting MPs holding true to the policies they initially stated as ‘core-beliefs’.

Cameron was and remains a nothing. Now it is obvious that actual voters have more than taken this fact on board, what will those who entered politics espousing basic conservative and democratic beliefs now do about it?

Carry on taking the money appears the answer from a brief read of this blog!

The Democratic Deficit is not now mainly in the EU, it is in the lack of a courageous and principled opposition - that seems to me the main reason why Yates has been frustrated. With Cameron leading the opposition the Brown government feels free to do as it wishes and even the most articulate members on the opposition benches appear as if gagged.

Cameron having acquiesced in the coagulation of HBOS into Lloyds and now apparently ready to permit the rolling of the printing presses to further corrupt the currency, both without re-call of parliament or apparently any debate is, with George Osborne, now equally culpable in democracy's demise as Brown and Darling!

I believe that Cameron has clearly failed and in the process betrayed the country, any reform of parliament demands his departure as Party Leader.