Wouldn't it be nice if each and every MP and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in the General Election could be made to write an essay on what they understand by "Politics of Principle" and how it relates to them?
Marks out a 100 would be awarded.
Let me explain that "principle" is not the same as "principal" and that it is important to appear to know what this means and to spell it correctly.
Perhaps I should make the question easier and break it down as they must all be scratching their heads and sucking their pens.
1. What do you understand by principle? (25 marks)
2. Why do you think is the purpose of having principles? (25 marks)
3. Do you understand what it means to act on a point of principle? (13 marks for a NO answer, 12 marks for a YES answer)
4. Give an example (or examples if you can think of more than one) when you have acted on principle. If you have never acted on principle, give a hypothetical situation where you might be prepared to do so. (25 marks)
CONSERVATIVE PARTY REFUSE TO ANSWER WHEN QUESTIONED WHAT ITS PRINCIPLES ARE!
Did the Tories once have principles but have now lost them?
Or did they never have them at all?
If they had them, where were they kept? I think we should be told.
Read all about this shocking story at
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/my-open-letter-to-conservative-party.html
Marks out a 100 would be awarded.
Let me explain that "principle" is not the same as "principal" and that it is important to appear to know what this means and to spell it correctly.
Perhaps I should make the question easier and break it down as they must all be scratching their heads and sucking their pens.
1. What do you understand by principle? (25 marks)
2. Why do you think is the purpose of having principles? (25 marks)
3. Do you understand what it means to act on a point of principle? (13 marks for a NO answer, 12 marks for a YES answer)
4. Give an example (or examples if you can think of more than one) when you have acted on principle. If you have never acted on principle, give a hypothetical situation where you might be prepared to do so. (25 marks)
CONSERVATIVE PARTY REFUSE TO ANSWER WHEN QUESTIONED WHAT ITS PRINCIPLES ARE!
Did the Tories once have principles but have now lost them?
Or did they never have them at all?
If they had them, where were they kept? I think we should be told.
Read all about this shocking story at
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/my-open-letter-to-conservative-party.html
2 comments:
1. What do you understand by principle? (25 marks)
A political principle is an apparently irreproachable moral stance that does not conflict with your own self-interest. It's a good thing because it convinces other people who share that view that they are in the right and that you will act in their interests if they vote for you. Acting on a point of principle means being willing to jettison any and every view that you have previously espoused when you have found one that better advances your own interests or will persuade more people to vote for you. It is always easy to claim this moral reversal is either a) a painful necessity forced on you by circumstance (N. Clegg) or b) a sign that your political philosophy is constantly evolving and that you are not afraid to court personal unpopularity in order to better serve the electorate.
1. What do you understand by principle? (25 marks)
Principle means doing things we know we should, but which would cause us temporary inconvenience and possibly even distress.
Do MPs these days even know what they SHOULD be doing before NOT doing it?
That is indeed the question.
One must first be acquainted with morality before one can stray from it.
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