PARTY SUPPLANTS PARLIAMENT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 87, 16 May 1949, Page 4

PARTY SUPPLANTS PARLIAMENT

Sir, —Quite recently we have had amongst the travellers and visitors to our shores; a refreshing example of candid criticism on our Parliamentary procedure under Party politics! This comes from Sir Gilbert Campion (Herald 30/3/49) a former clerk to the House of Commons. He states that in the House of Commons it does not recognise “party” as such. No! But nevertheless we have the prototype of such administration here. As in party politics the people (the body politic) are not the consideration of either party it is, who shall hold the treasury benches for foreign finance? Hence the Caucus, or Star Chamber under the control of the premier plan as instituted in the 1930’s by the London School of mics. It was Sir Otto Niemeyer and Prof. Copland who were the advisers to (or dictators) to our government of the hungry 30’s. And Mr Nash was the guest of that group of political and economic planners in 1937. And unless We sack the bureaucracy of party politics, beware, lest' worse befalls you.

One would ask what will be the results of our Parliamentarians 4 Visit to the Old Country and America? And who are they (as potential representatives of their 'country) getting their instructions from? And what are those instructions? Policy should come from the people through their members, not from the administration under Party Caucus. Therefore there is no sense in having administrators who are not responsible to parliament as a whole and, through Parliament to the people.

Yours etc., . W. BRADSHAW.