Online feedback

Below is feedback from readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com to yesterday's story on Bishop Herro Blair's call for improved behaviour from MPs.

Disclose their identity

If elected leaders do not know how to behave, it's not saying much for the society. Bishop Blair is telling the truth.

It appears as if these politicians cannot handle the truth. The Gleaner should disclose the name of the member of parliament who crushed that letter and threw it on the floor. Why the secret? The people of Jamaica have a right to know.

- Whitemarion

All isn't lost

Thank you, Mr Blair, for showing us that all is not lost. How can teachers control children in classrooms when the House Speaker cannot control our parliamentarians?

- Diane1roache

In the voters' hands

Since Independence, Jamaica's political climate has not created any room for the sanctioning of unruly politicians. Only voters can truly sanction parliamentarians by sending them packing at the polls.

The majority of MPs are aware that no matter how they conduct the people's business, their seats are safe in Parliament. In essence, the votes cast by Jamaicans are the disincentive to good governance.

- Nichenry88

It's not that bad

What's happening in Gordon House is the least. You should watch how MPs behave in the House of Commons in the UK or in the House of Representatives in US. Then you would see that Gordon House is not all that bad.

- US Liberal

it starts with leaders

Every day we lament the roughness in our society without acknowledging that our leaders and entertainers are the authors of this crassness.

If the head of the stream is dirty, the whole river is bound to be unclean.

- St Marian

back up, blair

MPs are elected by their constituents and answerable to them and to the people of Jamaica collectively, not to Mr Blair individually. Who does Bishop Blair think he is? Super lord! Not even the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is a member of the House of Lords in Britain, seeks to arrogate the power that is implied in Mr Blair's remarks.

Until Mr Blair gets elected to that body, he should neither seek to discipline it nor to set up himself above it!

- Maas Rupert