Saturday 10 May 2014

Select

What an excellent proposal by the Home Affairs Select Committee, that the Intelligence and Security Committee be elected by the House, and that its Chairman always come from the Official Opposition party.

The latter ought to apply to all Select Committees.

And while I still feel that the use of secret ballots to elect their members is faintly unparliamentary, it has undeniably had some very welcome and interesting effects, reflecting the true views of MPs as much by party as in general.

Take the member of the Science and Technology Committee most critical of the Climate Research Unit, and who has described published material in that field as "literature, no science."

The scientifically trained Graham Stringer was elected by a secret ballot of his fellow Labour MPs.

For example.

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