Lack of independence was the cause, how can it also be the solution?

As the expenses crisis moves into the initial consequences phase can we be risking a good crisis going to waste?

The lack of independence at the root of the crisis lives on into the current investigations being handled by the Parliamentary Parties.

How on earth can we expect them to deliver?

The main parties have created internal processes to review member’s behaviour, something designed to give reassurance so that we will vote for them in future but it is fatally flawed and, to date, only a few, low cost, sacrificial lambs have been served to placate the public.

The public are hungry for a way of distinguishing the between the Good and the Bad but this clarity is not forthcoming.

Clarity is not in the interest of the Parties. Clarity will assist the public’s judgement and maybe we will start to focus on some whom the Parties wish to retain. Once the opportunity is missed and the token sacrifices made, true clarity will not reappear 12 months later when the electorate get their say.

The news media are now focusing on the trivial and salacious rather than the correct target for this phase, viz. the judgement processes that are now already underway. There is no public scrutiny of the processes or understanding of the criteria upon which judgements are being based.