Thread: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Old 05-11-2021, 14:11   #99
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
At some point there has to be an authority, if not the independent standards committee who should that be?

You claim others are making it party political then your own ludicrous assertion is to politicise the process by making MPs the arbiter of their own conduct and not an independent commissioner.

I know you enjoy streaming services but that doesn’t mean you have to exist on a time delay from the rest of the conversation. Almost everyone in the thread - Conservative Party members included - knows this is absolutely grubby. Defending the indefensible. It’s not party political.
Nope. You are conflating the idea of having an appeals process with letting Paterson off.

An appeals process is simply natural justice. As for who could hear the appeal, I have already suggested that it could be a separate committee of MPs. It could be the commissioner as long as he had not already been involved in the case, but alternatively it could be a committee of the House of Lords. It doesn’t matter really, as long as they are able to come to an independent decision.

As far as Paterson himself is concerned, the correct thing to have done would have been to suspend the decision pending a procedure change which was lacking in the process and that would benefit MPs of all persuasions in the future. This doesn’t mean that Paterson would be let off. It would simply mean that his concerns would be addressed. The penalty may well remain in place, but I guess we will never know now, will we?
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