We are not cattle, say MPs

[rpm]

We are not cattle, say MPs

New technology - including the use of tags and fingerprints - could be used to monitor the attendance of MPs in Parliament.

 

[cybershark]

DA on wrong side again

Good way to show ANC non-attendance?

 

[ToxicBunny]

You have a job you numbnuts, you need to show valid attendance.

 

[copacetic]

Awesome.

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Many normal people have to clock in and out, what makes these people any different?

 

[ShaunSA]

Definitely not cattle. Cattle have value.

 

[bwana]

According to BusinessDay, DA chief whip “Watty” Watson said the DA caucus rejected the idea. “We are senior citizens who have been elected to Parliament by the people of SA and for us to be treated like sheep or cattle being counted is unacceptable.”

What's the retirement age for MPs?

 

[Bizkit87]

Erm ... Mr Watson, I work at a DA-led office of Gov, and I'm required to fingerprint check in and out everyday, why don't you have to?

Not cool ...

 

[2026]

Our MPs believe themselves high and mighty if a clock in system offends them so much.

 

[Maverick Jester]

According to BusinessDay, DA chief whip “Watty” Watson said the DA caucus rejected the idea. “We are senior citizens who have been elected to Parliament by the people of SA and for us to be treated like sheep or cattle being counted is unacceptable.”

the new system would see electronically garnered information falling within the duty of Parliament’s presiding officers, thereby replacing the current system which sees the chief whip of each party monitoring the attendance of their MPs.

If irony had to smack this fool in the face, he probably wouldn't recognise it...

 

[Kloofvreter]

Well I have to do it every day. Why would you have a problem with this?

 

[cpu.]

They sometimes forget that they were voted into positions and must work to retain it.

 

[Alan]

They behave like senile senior citizens.

Not happy resign and go find a real job

Definitely not cattle. Cattle have value.

Cattle also dont consume as much

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I guess they don't require tags to scan at the Freemason Lodge Watson is a Grandmaster at. MP problems.

 

[spiff]

next they will be bitching that they have to work for a living.......

 

[rrh]

Definitely not cattle. Cattle have value.

+10

 

[rrh]

Give them a piece of your mind

http://www.da.org.za/contact.htm?action=view-page&category=national-offices&form_submitted=2

 

[MickeyD]

They sometimes forget that they were voted into positions and must work to retain it.

They may have been voted in but who pays their salaries and allowances?

 

[biometrics]

According to BusinessDay, DA chief whip “Watty” Watson said the DA caucus rejected the idea. “We are senior citizens who have been elected to Parliament by the people of SA and for us to be treated like sheep or cattle being counted is unacceptable.”

Does he know how our system works?

 

[upup]

Well I have to do it every day. Why would you have a problem with this?

Because they have a blue light.
Gee pad voor!

 

[Electron1]

Seems that they think this petty attendance system thing is for the great unwashed, not for the high and mighty.