Speaker Accused
Quentin Letts says it all about Gorbals Mick, the most useless and comical Speaker in living memory. His rulings are increasingly bizarre and partisan. Hiring at the taxpayers expense Carter-Ruck to protect his reputation is a scandalous mis-use of public funds.No wonder he bent the rules to help along the bill to suppress Freedom of Information requests to parliamentarians...
35 comments:
Even George Galloway thinks that the Speaker's rulings are becoming even more 'strange'. That's what you get putting a below average intelligence Scottish MP in the Speaker's chair. Every time he says something the whole House should laugh. 'Gorbals Mick'? 'Gorbals Thick' more like it. He is a disgrace to the Chair.
er er er order er er order....
Staines, when are you going to apologise to Levy and others for the disgraceful smear campaign launched against them on this site.
Is your attempt to bring a private prosecution merely a ploy to collect on your, otherwise, failed bets?
Couldnt believe what was happening that time he pulled Cameron at one of Blairs final PMQs when he was asking a perfrectly legitimate line of questioning. Cameron could have seriously embarrassed the Speaker if he had chosen to react or pursue the matter.
"Bent the rules", Guido? Care to clarify - or to learn some rudiments of parliamentary procedure?
Those with long enough memories will recall the bizarre selection process for the speaker, in which Ted Heath quite openly, proudly even, rigged Michael Martin's "election".
Why did old Ted do that?
Frankly The House Of Commons is run with arcane rules and basically it is made up as it has gone along...over the centuries.
It is open to abuse, it is abused.. and MPs may complain but they have all had a chance when in power to solve the problems.
They did not cos it was not convenient at the time. (see HOL reform , cash for honours,FOI etc)
Tough shit.
The whole thing is a shambles and that's the fault of all parties and MPs. Over decades.
No wonder MPs are regarded as beneath contempt by estate agents...(whom they have attempted to reform with HIPS and made an even bigger mess)
johnfromcamberley - get your facts straight. If Ted heath had really wanted to rig Michael Martin's election in 2000, he would have proposed the question on another candidate first of all and then proposed a vote on Martin. Since it was pretty clear that the majority of Lab MPs (and therefore a majority of the House) were going to vote for Martin, as soon as there was a chance for the House to vote on him he would have secured a majority and won the contest.
In fact Heath chose Martin as the candidate each of the other twelve had to knock down, and thereby ensured that all twelve had their say.
madasafish - "it is made up as it has gone along?" Complete nonsense. Read Erskine May.
It can't be a bad government if this is all you've got to complain about.
2:32 you have obviously spent the last 10-15 years in a mental institution or even worse at the BBC.
anonymong 2:32
thanks for that terminally fatuous insight.
Sack the silly cunt.
Better still get Bercow's collecting tin and raise some loot from the MP's and hire a hit man/woman..
If you need any more help phone Moscow Central Exchange and ask for Kremlin 1, Good ole Putin might be disposed to send some Polonium and even a pro to help out, all in a fraternal good gesture of course.
Sounds like a Scottish version of Prescott !
I've been wanting to blog about Speaker Marti for a while now but keep getting distracted by the EU and other matters. Maybe I'll get some soon to cover the way he was elected contrary to convention and other subjects.
Sorry, for Marti read Martin - unless there is something I don't know about the Speaker, he does wear tights mind you!
anonymong @ 3.33 - no, he doesn't wear tights. You'll be saying he wears a wig next.
Quentin Letts is a very good writer - witty, informed and always right. Hideously overlooked if you ask me.
He also seems that he's a decent bloke, unlike the useless waste of human tissue that is the Speaker of the House of Commons.
anonymong - you're not Michael White are you?
...Carter-Ruck have just got in touch with me about calling Gorbals a 'useless waste of human tissue.'
They're worth the cash aren't they?
Maybe they'd prefer 'a waste of useless human tissue' or the 'waste tissue of a useless human'
Martin has always been a problem. He secured the job, because Labour wanted one of their own there. The old agreement that the person became free of political affilitions finished with him. He is Labour and always will be. He is corroupt and he has proven he to be coroupt by the way he has acted.
How about: 'less use than human waste on a tissue'?
The Speaker of the House has become a legend in his own mind. He is thick, he is partial and he is a typical glaswegian with a massive chip on his shoulder.
How does parliament rid itself of such a man as this? With the amount of Scots running the place we English (The underclass) have no chance whatsoever.
Sell him to Europe!
May I just say that Iain Dale is a cunt.
doureen you may not
The House of Commons as a whole is a corrupt waste of time and money. I'm surprised no-one's tried blowing the fucker up.
...oh, wait!
Quentin Letts (Daily Mail)is a national treasure.
He regularly takes the piss out of "Gorbals Mick", defying his editor, Paul Dacre, who has cowed most of his hacks into hailing The Great Gordo, "a serious man for serious times", and all things NuLabour.
Latest ex-Conservative columnist to please his master is Tom Utley, who comes up with the original idea that Cameron is a spin- merchant. Like all politicians, presumably, particularly Brown, the spin-merchant's spin-merchant.
Back to Gorbals Mick; He's an embarrassment and even his Labour cronies know that.
His inability to string a few words togethger to make a coherent sentence is a sad reflection on what has happened to Parliamentary government under Labour.
Casual Observer said...
His inability to string a few words "togethger" to make a coherent sentence is a sad reflection on what has happened to Parliamentary government under Labour.
Bit like your inability to spell togethger.
Bird said...
Your consistent.Your a bore here, and a bore over at Dale's Diary.
comfy socks and a bottle of rum 8:28 PM
I would strongly advise you to stick a sock in it and lay off the rum - casual observer clearly spelt "togethger" correctly. However, in this context, "together" would have been a far more appropriate word to have used - although I will not highlight this minor point as the poor fellow displays classic symptoms of dyslexia and it is most unkind to persecute a person because of a brain dysfunction.
casual observer 6:32pm
Without in any way wishing to be insensitive to your condition, I am duty bound to point out that the Speaker's 'inability to string a few words togethger to make a coherent sentence is' not 'a sad reflection on what has happened to Parliamentary government under Labour', but a sublime allegory of New Labour fuckuppanationality.
anon 12.07
Less of the sweeping generalisations. Your opinion on the Speaker of the House is valid, because you have based it on evidence (and I actually agree with it), but as a Glaswegian myself I don't want to be compared with the likes of Mick. You'll find every city/town has its wankers.
rule to be blind said...
comfy socks and a bottle of rum 8:28 PM
I think your funny, and also a very caring person.
I go away for a few weeks expecting some improvement when I come back - and the cretin is still there.
We're only stuck with him because NuLabour decided to break with tradition (as usual) and put forward another Labour speaker.
The speaker should have been Sir George Young; as is proper, a member of the opposition so as to maintain fairness.
Gorbals Mick is the perfect standard bearer for Nu-Labour, an ignorant, inarticulate, illiterate, inumerate cunt, who casts shame on his party, the House, and the country. What does Bliar or The Fist care? Not a jot, we are only the citizenry, and can fuck off.
Post a Comment