The Lay of the Land

It looks as if this silly recall business is not going to get anywhere.

But what if there really were to be these "lay members"?

We had thought that in this context, those were called MPs, just as in certain other contexts they were called jurors, or magistrates, for example.

If the MPs are the problem, then change the MPs.

But what if there were to be these others? Who should they be? How, and by whom, should they be chosen? And why?

Similarly, who should replace Fiona Woolf, and why?

On The World at One, Simon Danczuk stated the blatantly obvious: Leon Brittan is being protected. He might have added that Brittan was Nick Clegg's political godfather.

Was there anyone who was closely associated with Margaret Thatcher and who was not engaged in the sexual abuse of children?