The Editor, Sir:

I am not impressed with the current anxiety to make yet another set of rules to deal with such things as political party funding. We already have an integrity commission, income reporting procedures, a corruption commission, a contractor general, Public Accounts Com- mittee, the police force and a political ombudsman to see to the good conduct of politicians; and still they will not behave. The Trafigura scandal is just the latest in a long, long series.

If those seemingly impatient advocates were sincere about new laws to regulate their own conduct, they would not have missed or overlooked the remark made by the very knowledgeable Mr. K.D. Knight. Arguing in defence of his party's method of getting funds, he told the honourable House that for those who choose to do so, there are 'a million ways' to get around the rules.

Making laws is one thing; law enforcement is another. The number of unsolved crimes among low people in high places suggests that it is a waste of time and money to be having more and more rules and regulations which our legislators make for themselves but will not observe.

I am, etc.,

KEN JONES

alllerdyce@hotmail.com