A politician’s prayer

Buck and Joan Emberg

(To replace the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning of each sitting of the Tasmanian Parliament.)

In the name of the Upper House, the Lower House and the People of Tasmania. Amen…

A POLITICIAN’S PRAYER/AND PLEDGE FOR PARLIAMENT SITTINGS

(To replace the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning of each sitting of the Tasmanian Parliament.)

In the name of the Upper House, the Lower House and the People of Tasmania. Amen.

We, the Politicians of Tasmania, do hereby, in the Name of the People of Tasmania, prayerfully Swear, Pledge and Promise:

1. To always ask the question before deliberations, “What is best for the People?”

2. Likewise, we promise to always tell the truth in all deliberations and will,

by our own intiative, resign when we tell a porkie to Parliament.

3. We promise, O People, to never shout, yell, abuse, swear or give a rude finger-gesture to opposing pollies while in the sacred confines of Parliament.

4. We further promise, in the name of the People, to speak well of the people and not refer to them as The Rabble, the Unwashed or Them. Likewise, we will not send the People abusive emails no matter how provoked we might become. We acknowledge that those of us, as elected officials, are above such behaviour.

5. Upon the pain of being cast from our electorates and separated from our fat paychecks, we further pray for the forgiveness of the electorate when we fail to live up to our pledges and the people’s expectations.

This prayer and promise we do here make…until the day after the next election.

Buck and Joan Emberg