Parliamentary Prorogation

Last Wednesday the last session of Parliament was formally ended with the ancient ceremony of prorogation, read here and here. The next session of Parliament will not commence until next Wednesday when the Queen is scheduled to perform the State Opening. In light of the resignation of Lord Sainsbury from the government, ostensibly for personal reasons, with many questions still hanging over his role, read here, and the growing reach of the police probe into the honours for loans scandal the next two or three days would seem a perfect moment for the Prime Minister to be interviewed by the police over his role in the corruption of the British political process. The Conservative Party might also do well to use this period of pause to reconsider their own role in the disgrace of the political process. Apart from their new leader's rush to consult with the PM as the crisis broke, as discussed in this post last spring on my blog Teetering Tories, linked here, allegations appearing on the internet via West Samoa and Panama regarding the past of the leader of the opposition seem difficult to ignore if not quickly refuted. For the nation to watch the Queen re- opening Parliament, the source of all authority in the land, with such questions over the men leading the two main parties hanging in the air would make a mockery of the functions of the nation still just beyond their control.