I only had three minutes to respond to a debate on parliamentary democracy and standards of public life. I focused on the neglected 'demos' part of the word democracy, and official hostility to people power.
The last thing we need are more codes of conduct - 'diversity', 'inclusion' and other branded ethical values that we supposedly all need to be officially trained in to improve standards. Yuk. Let what happened to Rachel Meade at the hands of her own professional standards body be a warning...

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Fox_Claire/status/1745437918645113217#m

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