After Thursday’s shame, MPs must lower their rhetoric

Their Senate counterparts call it the ‘double - intake’ august House because of the large number of MPs. But our National Assembly is anything but the august House, an epithet meaning ‘profoundly honoured, of supreme dignity, majestic, venerable, noble’.

It is fast losing its stature not just because of the punch-up and chaos witnessed this week or the rancorous ‘mpigs’ demonstrations last year but also because of the many negative aspersions often peddled by the members themselves.