http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/14/leveson-accountability-amnesia?fb=native
Your queries for the prime minister regarding the Leveson inquiry (After the admissions, Cameron faces a question of judgment, 14 June) highlight a very important issue over the wider political and business culture.
Heading a government who came to power on the back of a campaign on responsibility, Cameron now seems to be doing everything to avoid it. He scolded Labour for not acting sensibly when the economic onus was on them but now that he finds himself in the spotlight during the Leveson inquiry, he's refusing to swallow the blame.
What would really fill the public with confidence would be seeing our leader own up and show some accountability, rather than pass it on into the depths of ministers and civil servants where somebody down the ladder will take the bullet. Coulson, Brooks and Hunt have all been in the firing line, and rightly so, but the common denominator here is Cameron. He remains unscathed, while he should be accepting his culpability.
This undemocratic political culture has taken over the corporate world too, in which companies work in such convoluted mazes that responsibility is impossible. No product and service can be pinned down to one company, so that any blame is passed on or simply batted off by careful yet deceitful small print.
Politics and business are the controlling forces in our society and both trade transparency and accountability for money and power. It's a harrowing cycle of circumvention and it will only change from the top.
Sam Charles-Edwards
Rugby, Warwickshire
Sam Charles-Edwards
Rugby, Warwickshire
