Policy is best determined closer to taxpayers who are better empowered to redress political abuses.

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Mr Speaker we must reflect on what has happened, redress the abuses, make sure that nothing like this can ever happen again and make sure the public see us as individual MPs accountable to our constituents.

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An obvious one is the stream of petitioners who head to Beijing to visit government offices to seek redress for abuses of power in their hometowns, an imperial tradition that the Communist Party has, through gritted teeth, maintained.

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