Part of my job scope at the moment requires me to be present at the House of Parliament, not as a representative, but to be on standby to receive any ad-hoc questions that may be posed to the minister during the parliamentary sitting that requires an immediate answer. Across all ages, I find only two types of speakers would draw the best attention (not the most), which are those who can articulate the loudest, and those who can answer swiftly.
My colleagues and I were present from 230pm and it was only at 930pm that our services were called upon as it was our ministry's turn for presentation and rebuttal.....7 freaking hours of waiting!!!
And why did we have to wait??? Because 6 other ministries could not keep their points concise and other speakers had to make a circus of the parliament but getting emotional, rude, and many times demanding statistics that is nice to know, but in essence contributes nothing in value to improve the country.
While I had brought work and reading material along to kill the hours away, 7 hours seem ridiculously long to wait upon while elected representatives from the country trash it out with sometimes very childish mannerism. At those very moments I wonder....who elected those people into power....and I realised it was the people themselves..... And perhaps it was because to garner votes and popularity, a politician would be in the best behaviour under the public limelight, while in parliament is where their true self surfaces....
Maybe the people are getting short changed....
So here's an idea....to curb time wastage and for people to get to know their elected representatives better so that citizens would have a better idea if their representative really have the people's best interest at heart....
I propose during parliamentary sitting, all TV channels including satelite TV and subscription TV only show the parliamentary sitting live.... News can be a scrolling marquee at the ottom of the TV.... There will be no shows, no dramas, no Star channel, no ESPN....NOTHING but the parliamentary sitting so people will see just what kind of business transpires in the great hall by our elected representatives.....
Who knows, it may breed a future generation of well mannered, learned, concise, and transparent representative and leadership that this country is starving for.
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