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Improving politicians' behaviour : Comments
By Valerie Yule, published 5/12/2007Should there be a moral or legal obligation for a politician resigning from parliament, except for serious reasons, to pay the costs of the resulting by-election?
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Politicians take many more ‘rights’ for themselves that any other citizen, so there is no reason why they should have this ‘right’ as well when they have far more responsibility than other citizens, and they get paid well above their worth.
So, of course they have a “legal and moral obligation” to pay the costs of a by-election if they resign at any time other than election time. The problem is, politicians make the laws, and they have no particular moral code.
Forget it. It’s not going to happen.