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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