David Davis
…they want to “curb the Lobbying Industry”…
Cameron has just jumped into his own mouth with both feet, by proferring an answer to the wrong question.
Everyone knows that the place where ex-Ministers go to (not) die is QUANGOs. These items are set up _/by/_ governments, in order to be given money _/by/_ governments, and then with which they “hire” objects such as “ex-ministers” to _/lobby/_ the very same governments with the objective ov bringing in the very policies that those governments want to see enacted.
If MPs had to be (real) “local” people, standing locally, known by sight and acquaintance to most of their employers (us) and if they were truly disinterested, which is to say: they don’t need the money, then “lobbying” as it is today understood would wither away naturally. Lobbying-power would pass to constituents and voters where it belongs: governments would not need to nurture a galaxy of faux-lobbyists in order to pretend there is “wide public support” for this or that.
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Wow, ministers will have to wait two years instead of one to get their directorship reward for selling out the people. (taxes to pay for internet infrastructure improvement anyone, we pay for the infrastructure then pay for it’s use!)
If any politician was serious about giving power to the people they would pull apart the system and literaly give the people the right to choose who they contract with and what services they pay for. This proposal by David Cameron is a bloody insult to peoples intelligence, it is something i would have expected from teflon.