Where’s concern for public purse?

The perception of social injustices form the prejudices and mistrust of governments and leaders alike. How else would a distressed society view the careless spending by ministers who are egregiously slumberous when it comes to detail, efficiency and accountability, whether on official business or not? Remember the officiality of any minister’s business is the people’s business.

Recently in Great Britain, David Cameron resigned as prime minister because he was in support of being part of the EU while the slim majority voted otherwise in a referendum. So in keeping with the honour of the Parliament he resigned.

The lesson here is if we adopt the Westminster system we must also have values, integrity to sit in the House of the people and show some sort of genuine concern with the public purse and how we serve our country.

COLIN FORTUNE Arima