Parliament must endeavour to always keep the bar high

By Ababu Namwamba
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Edmund Burke, the celebrated 18th Century British Statesman, was setting very high standards indeed when he said “Parliament is not a Congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole; where not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a Member of Bristol but a Member of Parliament”.