Time To Wave Goodbye Mr Speaker
The resignation of the Speaker's spin doctor over the "mis-briefing" of the £4,000 in taxi expenses for Mrs Speaker caps a bad week for Speaker Martin.The charge-sheet is getting longer and the voices getting louder, if he had any sense he would stand down before a way is found to push him out. That he was involved in efforts to hide MP's expenses from Freedom of Information requests shows he is clearly the wrong person to lead parliament into a more open and transparent future. The revelation that the Speaker claims mortgage subsidy allowance for a property without a mortgage when he already lives in a grand manner at the public expense is a fiddle too far. This is an abuse fo the system which Martin has been using to featherbed his lifestyle and subsidise even his family's lifestyle. Time to say "goodbye" Mr Speaker...
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MORE LABOUR CROOKED DEALINGS-ON A MASSIVE SCALE!
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2068685.0.0.php
good riddance to crooked rubbish. what a wanker this bloke is
if he is claiming for a mortgage that doesnt exist he should be prosecuted for fraud.
nulabour are fucked.
Anonymous said...
MORE LABOUR CROOKED DEALINGS-ON A MASSIVE SCALE!
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var
CANNOT FIND WHAT YOU ARE ALLUDING TO ON THAT LINK, ANON, GIVE US A CLUE
Can we have a competition to find an honest MP any party will do but a nulab would be a real find.
They are not "mistaken" or "unsure" they are thieves and frauds and if it was me or you a trial and jail would follow.How can anyone take any MP seriously when they steal your and my money on a truly industrial scale.the country is a mess and these buggers only ever look up from the trough to see if they missed a fiddle...Bastards all!
Ps a thought on MPs pay dont give em more cash cut their bloody hours.
The sooner Gorbals Thick departs, the better. He has turned the Speaker's role into a joke. I'm sure that Gorbals would not have been even considered for ANY 'governmental' job by Clem Attlee who at least had the guts to say to an ex-Minister why he was being fired:- 'Not up to the job'. A fitting quote to affix to Gorbals' tenure in the Chair. Replacements:- Alan Hazlehurst OR Gwyneth Dunwoody! Ming Campbell would have everybody snoozing in the aisles, and he could kark it in the Chair- would anybody notice?
Colonel Mad says
Curious parallels with Mrs Speaker and old Letter-box gob in their porcine ways.
Has Guido been pimping out Mrs Guido to Parliament?
"In fact, the "official" was Mrs Martin's cleaner,
Gloria Hawkes, a friend. And the shopping was not for receptions but for informal occasions."
Any sign of the parties mobilising for a by-election in Glasgow North East yet?
"That he was involved in efforts to hide MP's expenses from Freedom of Information requests shows he is clearly the wrong person to lead parliament into a more open and transparent future."
Do you have any evidence of this involvement, Guido, beyond the fact that the Speaker was applying Commons procedure as set out in Erskine May?
So the British Tax payer has provided Gorbals Mick and Wife, a grace and favour house in London. Gorbals Mick then charges the British Taxpayer £75,000 to maintain his family home in Scotland. Not to mention Mick's wife fiddling the shopping expenses in London and his Clan's air miles scam.
And why isn't Call me Dave or any of his front bench demanding Mr Speaker's resignation? What skeletons has Dave got in his Tory Closet? I hope your Blog forces Dave into action over this affair just as it forced him into taking action over Conway. Keep up the good work and expose these political free loaders.
Margaret Beckett should resign too, for suggesting that to reveal someone's abuse of office is to peddle "nasty little stories" in an attempt "to get him".
That the BBC should cite this as a reasonable comment is as damning an indictment of our times as I have seen.
If the Speaker was a 'former' Tory (though there is nothing 'former' about this Labour MP), the Labour backbenchers would be up in arms about 'Tory Sleaze'.
As it is, they keep quiet, probably because Mr Speaker is doing nothing that they aren't doing too.
Are we sure we know what we are doing 1)
Mr Cameron and the Opposition. Get real FFS! We need an opposition that can better any tosh that Blinky (idiot - lower-case) spins.
If you are not up to the job at LEAST read Guido's blog and the comments AND learn how to.
Are we sure we know what we are doing 2)
Bondholders can force the Rock to buy back mortgages from Granite if they were not made under “reasonable and prudent” criteria. As house prices falter, it could become debatable whether some of the Rock’s high loan-to-value deals were prudent.
The potential cost to the taxpayer appears to be huge because the government has guaranteed to fund any repurchases that Northern Rock has to make from Granite.
Are we sure we know what we are doing 3)
Sleaze & Transparency. What Mr Martin and our MP's are doing is dishonest, fruadulent and a crime. Spirit of the RULES it aint! They have no honour and should not be shown it.
Mr Abrahams is STILL waiting for Mr Brown to fulfil his TELEVISED promise to repay his donation.
Not only … But Also
[Here is one version of Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore's improvised outro]
Now is the time to say goodbye.
(Goodbye)
Now is the time to yield a sigh.
(Yield it, yield it)
Now is the time to wend our way-eee
Until we meet again-eee
Some sunny day.
Goodbye, goodbye, we're leaving you, skiddlydye.
Goodbye, we wish a fond goodbye, fa-ta-ta-ta-ta, fa-ta-ta-ta.
Goodbye, goodbye, we're leaving you, skiddlydum.
Goodbye, we wish a fond goodbye, la-la-ta-ta-ta.
La dah da, lah la la etc.
[Repeat].
[Spoken] You know there comes a time in everyone's life when they must say goodbye. That time is now, and so with tears in either eye we say goodbye, as people have said throughout the years. We leave this mortal coil on which we strut and fret our weary ways, as Shakespeare put it, God bless him. What a wonderful old chap Shakespeare was, bald but sexy.
Take that rhythm away with its wonderful melodies.
Oh, goodbye they say.
Goodbye, goodbye, we're leaving you goodbye,
Goodbye, we wish you all …. a fond …goodbye..
Ms Beckett late of the FCO and DEFRA (remember the Rural Payments Agency scandal?) was on slimeball Marr's programme this morning, wearing so much make-up she could rival Hain, saying that there are a lot of people out there making up nasty little stories about Mr Speaker known as Mad Mick. Too right we're putting out stories except for one thing - we're not making them up.
Advice - get back to your box on wheels and to your chairmanship (as of last month) of the Inelligence and Security Committee.
Meanwhile Tommy Sheridan's missus gets charged for having a couple of minatures in her knicker draw.
Am I alone in thinking the Old Bill north of the border (and Berwick) should really be chasing bigger fish?
If Gorbals Mick had any integrity, he would resign.
Another Westminster pig with his snout in the bottomless trough of public money.
Throw him in the Thames and we will see if shit floats.
how is claiming for a mortgage that doessnt exist any different to conway paying his son for not doing any work?
Be fair to him, he's only reverting to type
This Speakers origins are the Glasgow City Labour Party and the Roman Catholic Church- two of the most corrupt organisations in Europe.
I think it speaks volumes about the state of our political process when one of the biggest PIGS in Parliament is heading up an enquiry into SNOUTS in the Westminster TROUGH.
Get this self serving Bastard out NOW!
Given that Mick has no mortgage on his £400,000 4 bedroom detached house, that he bought only nine years ago, where the fuck did he get the money to pay for it? Perhaps sheet metal workers are the new plumbers.
Blogfan - of course you are alone you cretin. Just because McPlod is more diligent than BendoverBlair is no reason to belittle his efforts. Sheridan and his wife are the worst kind of lying thieving scum that deface public life in this country, and it is very good news that they are not getting away with it this time. Mrs Sheridan had the honour of being arrested on perjury charges on Tuesday, and theft charges on Friday, some new record perhaps?
Do you really think that McPlod (who must have had it up to here with the Sheridans) searching for evidence in the first charge should ignore evidence they turn up of other criminal acts? She is a shameless bitch, married to a low-life of the first water. Al Capone got done in by the little things; whatever it takes to nail these scum will do for me.
I didn't see the Margaret Beckett interview on The Andrew Marr Show. However, I saw the show's intro with Marr saying Mick Martin wasn't the worst speaker in history as another speaker he wouldn't name had fallen out of his chair in the Commons drunk, so I knew that it wouldn't be an impartial interview.
Chump-change.
look up Chris Davies. MEP and his reading of confidential Euro budget reports.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/21/neu121.xml
Re the Herald story.....
The £3.5m fraud, the £250,000 flat... and the deputy presiding officer. A senior Labour MSP helped her crooked son cash in on a lucrative Holyrood flat he bought months after defrauding his employers of £3.7million.
Deputy presiding officer Trish Godman purchased her son Gary Mulgrew's Edinburgh apartment for £250,000 in late 2006, after he had been extradited to Texas.
But Mulgrew, who was last week jailed for his part in an international fraud, had initially bought the property in full, without the need for a mortgage, shortly after embezzling millions of pounds in the Enron-linked scandal.
The revelation comes after Mulgrew and two other bankers, dubbed the NatWest Three, were each sentenced in a Houston courtroom on Friday to 37 months.
The trio of bankers had defrauded their former employers, NatWest, by persuading the firm to sell an Enron-related venture at a knock-down price of $1m.
They then left Natwest, bought a stake in the enterprise that had been sold, and offloaded it for $20million.
Mulgrew, 46, and his fellow fraudsters received around £3.7million between them, in mid 2000, cash they used to invest in businesses and property.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that one of Mulgrew's post-fraud investments was a flat at Holyrood Road in Edinburgh, yards from the Scottish Parliament.
Documents from Registers of Scotland show the Scot bought the property in mid 2001, months after receiving the proceeds from the dodgy deal. He paid £245,000 in full for the apartment, without requiring a mortgage.
The only standard security Mulgrew took out on the flat was two years later, in September 2003, which was after he had been charged by US prosecutors.
In November 2006, at a time when Mulgrew had been extradited to Texas on fraud charges, Trish Godman and her husband, former Labour MP Norman Godman, bought the property for £250,000.
Days later, in documents submitted at Houston's federal court, US prosecutors accused Mulgrew of trying to hide his wealth by transferring cash to his siblings, such as giving his brother $60,000 to buy a house in Australia.
The Godmans' purchase of their son's property came at a critical point for Mulgrew, as months before the sale he had to pay bail of $200,000 and was facing huge legal costs.
Earlier reports indicated that Mulgrew sold his £250,000 of shares in Celtic Football Club to get bail. He and his fellow fraudsters later pleaded guilty in 2007 to one count of wire fraud, a plea bargain the judge accepted on Friday.
Godman's role in helping her son financially is controversial due to the senior role she occupies at Holyrood.
As well as being the Labour MSP for West Renfrewshire, Godman is one of the Parliament's deputy presiding officers. She chairs debates and acts as an ambassador for Holyrood.
It has been claimed in earlier newspaper reports that Mulgrew had agreements to rent out his Holyrood apartment to his mother for £1000 but the Sunday Herald has no evidence to back up that claim.
Between 1999 and 2005, Godman was revealed to have been the biggest MSP claimant of hotel costs, claiming £23,000 despite living in Glasgow. She has not made any claims for hotels since purchasing the flat.
There is no suggestion that Godman did anything illegal but the affair is embarrassing for Scottish Labour as the party has made seizing the assets of criminals a top law and order priority.
In 2002, the Labour-led Scottish Executive passed the Proceeds of Crime Act, which drew up new powers of confiscation, civil recovery and taxation.
Godman did not return calls yesterday.
SNP MSP Alex Neil said: "Labour has got to clean up its act - it's one story after another. This is not just damaging Labour, but politics in general."
anonymous at 1.06
You forgot that he is probably a Season-ticket holder at Celtic Park--the 3rd element of the Unholy Trinity. Greedy, grasping bigots.
anonemo said...
"Given that Mick has no mortgage on his £400,000 4 bedroom detached house, that he bought only nine years ago, where the fuck did he get the money to pay for it?Perhaps sheet metal workers are the new plumbers."
He has been a well-paid MP for 19 years.
Whatever happens, BBC News will protect them.
Quite apart from his disgusting fiddling, Martin has been partisan in a traditionally non-partisan role. NuLab corrupted even that. They corrupt everything they touch.
But they will get away with all of it unless the corrupted BBC News is reformed. Reform the bastards, and let us have some justice.
anon @ 2:42
"He has been a well-paid MP for 19 years."
I know. Thats the point, it seems it only takes ten years of sucking at the public tit to amass enough to buy, outright, what in the south would probably be a million pound home.
"In fact, the "official" was Mrs Martin's cleaner,
Gloria Hawkes, a friend. And the shopping was not for receptions but for informal occasions."
Was she there to carry nthe shopping? Those Harrods bags are heavy.
And who was it who told the officials to lie to his media spokesman?
They just decided to lie themselves. Yeah. Right. Of course they did.
And as for Mrs S., well, Labour trolls are claiming it was a few bottles of perfume and a few miniatures of Scotch. But was it? Or was it carrier bags full? Or unopened boxes of the stuff?
I think this could have repercussions for other staff at the airline. Depending on the provenance of the stuff found at the house. (IE., 'left over' from a flight or boxes from a warehouse, for example.)
Of course there could be perfectly innocent explanations for both sets of charges against Mrs S.
I guess the reason that MPs are allowed to claim allowances for second homes on which there is no mortgage or rent to keep up, is because if the allowance was only permissible if covering actual outgoings then MPs would buy second homes with mortgages instead of owning anything outright, even if they had the capital to do so.
It's a shame that we can't trust 650 of supposedly our finest citizen-lawmakers to keep the interests of taxpayers first in their minds, and do all that's reasonably possible to minimise their expenses. Instead there are too many MPs who try to take us for all we're worth.
MM out - absolutely rubbish at controling the house, and corrupt.
This is the part of the transcript of the Marr programme where Ms Beckett speaks of our esteemed Mr Speaker, occupant of a high office of State brought low.
ANDREW MARR: I asked David Davis, I'll ask you. Michael Martin, is his speakership drawing unpeacefully to a close?
MARGARET BECKETT: I think it's really, I will confess Andrew that I don't fully understand this story that has appeared this morning. What, however, I do understand, and what is very clear, is that there has been a whole string of nasty little stories about and around Michael Martin.
Somebody is out to get him, whether they are, whether what they say is valid or is just somebody being out to get him I can't judge. There's a huge amount of paper on it in today's Sunday papers. There doesn't seem to me to be an enormous amount of content as opposed to comment.
ANDREW MARR: All right. Margaret Beckett, thank you very, very much indeed for coming in to join us.
INTERVIEW ENDS
Marr doffs forelock and exits
she paid 5k more for the flat than greedy gary the crook mulgrew paid for it 5 years earlier!!
so his flat had gone up only 5k in 5 years.......or was she helping him hide his wealth from the uS authorities???
nice work from a grasping crooked msp!!
The man should resign for bringing all 60 year olds into disrepute. Someone told me that he was only 62. He looks 92 and he obviously has dementia if his TV appearencea are anthing to go bye. If this is what being a teetotaller brings on then the rest of us should stick to the Claret for a long and happy life.If he was given the new viagra spray he would use it on his prick.
Sky News just wheeled out Blunkett for his view on Gorbals Mick. So predictable it was almost embarassing. Someone's out to get him, why don't they show themselves, rhubarb, rhubarb.
Blunkett very conveniently forgets that he lost his job for fiddling expenses. Hardly the sort of upright person I would turn to for an impartial view.
It's like a den of thieves. Better not grass on a mate guv, you never know who's watching. The way this lot of self serving, lying, thieving bastards carry on it makes me want to emigrate.
He just about represents what Labour is all about. Rough, self serving snob.
He should never have been made speaker in the first place.
Margaret Beckett's "performance" on Andrew Marr's weekly party political broadcast on behalf of the New Labour party was incredible. 3.29's transcript reveals just what a contrary piece of propaganda double-speak she dumped on the public. If this semi-senile old Labour zombie has any influence over the Security and Intelligence Committee then heaven help us all.
Somebody is out to get him? So what, New Labour have been out to get us all for ten years.
So Beckett wants the nasty people to leave Martin alone. That speaks volumes! Any MP who, after hearing what Martin has been up to and still supports the man in office needs to be investigated by Guido. It should be easy pickings. I wonder if we are paying for Beckett's caravan?
Glasgie Mick, the ex-sheetie and Speaker of the House of Commons, should be beyond reproach in everything he does. He isn't. His snout is well and truly in the very crowded trough. He should be thrown out and made to pay back, with interest, every penny. Thye man's not fit to hold public offce.
When in the Cabinet and living at Admiralty Arch in a grace and favour flat, wasn't Beckett also claiming "Additional Costs Allowance" - for her property in Derbyshire (mortgage paid off years ago)? Believe she also owned a flat in London which was rented out - presumably for loads of cash. So what were her "additional costs"?
As for Blunkett, he was the man using public money to enable his then mistress to take the train for their weekend meetings - and said he thought he was entitled to it because they were "in a relationship"! Ignoring the fact that this particular allowance is for an MP's wife, not for someone else's wife he happened to be carrying on with.
And we're surprised these people are defending Michael Martin?
MR SPEAKERS BIGGEST CON UNCOVERED TO DATE!
http://www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5062
The disgusting thing about this filthy Scotch cunt is that he doesn't even need the money. He's so well paid, will have such a huge pension that he and his money grubbing wife will have no financial worries for the rest of their miserrable lives.
Utter, utter, filthy cunts the both of them. Socialists, don't they make you laugh.
Time to send for the 'men in grey tights'......
In a nut shell
He speaker is leading an investigation into MP expense.
The Tories are clearly petrified as to what he will find, so have started a campaign against the speaker.
In spin speak this is called “A Pre-emptive Smear”
I am at a loss to how to express my anger and depression over 10 years of this corrupt, disgraceful, sleazy, hypocritical, lying, cheating, incompetent, useless, ignorant, anti-public, self serving, ugly in personality and appearance, bad, horrible, war mongering, pension stealing, prison overcrowding, educationally sub-normal, bankrupt, charlatan, closet-queen led, scum,
really are.
Oh!? Not so lost after all, they make it easy.
Now, why are they so fucking awful? They are Socialists.
anonemo said...
anon @ 2:42
"He has been a well-paid MP for 19 years."
I know. Thats the point, it seems it only takes ten years of sucking at the public tit to amass enough to buy, outright, what in the south would probably be a million pound home.
You are demonstrating an extreme lack of logic here. The comparison with southern prices is totally irrelevant. Also, you are not taking into account house price inflation or the equity from his previous house. My salary is only half that of the speaker, my house is worth £500,00 but I have paid for it in less than 9 years.
Guido,
how can you possibly expect the protector of perks and privileges to be turfed out by those who enjoy them most?
See that Martin trousered £75K in exes on his mortgage-free home according to the Sunday Mirror. That seems like the real scandal rather than who her fellow taxi passenger was!
Presume a peerage is out of the question. Silly me.
oh yeah, bye-bye mr martin.
ref: margaret beckett.
look, skeletor had her chance but she blew it. she possessed the diplomatic key to unlock the iran hostage situation but she didn't use it. if only skeletor had offered her own caravan in exchange for this country's two dinghies then the iranians wouldn't have been putting those aforementioned small boats on public display in iran last week.
it's your fault beckett, you greedy, selfish, caravanning bastard!
yet another fucking useless foreign secretary provided by the new labour war party. how many is that now? four wankers in a row. or is it five? it should be pointed out that for counting purposes denis macshane is considered to be a total spastic.
What more can you expect from someone who was elected by a selection panel whose members were down at the bookies betting on him winning the day before his election was announced?...
He was elected speaker in oct 2000, after he bought his house outright.
Did you buy yours outright?
Did you earn half the amount Martin does now, in the ten years before 1999?
How much do you think he paid for his present house?
How much equity did he get from his previous house?
Are you a troll? :-)
FROM THE SITE WITH THE GAELIC NAME ABOVE: 6.34pm
Last year, the Speaker hosted six dinners in state rooms at a cost of £10,869.33 and spent a further £44,216 on entertainment.
Mr Granatt, a partner at the Luther Pendragon PR agency, said he was stepping down as media adviser to the House of Commons Commission, the management committee that Mr Martin chairs.
He claimed, however, that Mr Martin was not to blame personally over the issue.
Mr Granatt said yesterday: "I have stepped down from my post for ethical reasons, because I misled a journalist unwittingly. It is core to the ethical code by which I and my company operate that I tell the truth, and that I am given the truth to tell.
"However, I learned on Friday that I had been led to mislead journalists over material facts in a story concerning the Speaker's household and the use of taxis. I have expressed my regrets to the journalist who brought this to my attention, and I offer them to anyone else who was similarly misled. I wish to make it clear that this arose through no fault of Mr Speaker."
Members from all sides feel that Mr Martin has failed to get a grip on the recent scandal over House of Commons expenses. Many MPs actively want him to step down.
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Interesting and bloody annoying that a PR agency is involved. Why does the old fart need a PR man? This is OUR tax money,
@Anonymous 6:59PM said...
//
In a nut shell
He speaker is leading an investigation into MP expense.
The Tories are clearly petrified as to what he will find, so have started a campaign against the speaker.
In spin speak this is called “A Pre-emptive Smear”
//
Excuse me. This man's bias in debates in the Rump Parliament is there for all to see. His behaviour during PMQ is appalling, allowing Brown to completely disregard house protocol. He's made a laughing stock of the post of Speaker, and thereby debased our democratic process. Some might call that treason. I would.
Gorbels Mick was never up to the job and has proved himself to be, not a defender of the rights of Parliament, but merely a New Labour stooge. He is a disgrace and ought to resign.
But he should never have been elected Speaker in the first place. By convention the speakership switches across the floor and it ought to have been a Tory member, but that vast heap of scum that sits on the government benches wouldn't vote for anyone but one of their own. They are all as corrupt as the blob they put in the chair. Yet more Labour corruption and sleaze.
Pakistan has banned access to YouTube on the grounds that "anti-Islamic" movies have been posted on the site.
...
In January, a court in Turkey also blocked the website because some video clips allegedly insulted the country's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/24/wpak324.xml
Off now. Mustafa crap.
@ Theo, Throw him in the Thames and we will see if shit floats. [12:42 PM]
The technical answer to that question depends on how rich his diet is. Turds rich in fat float, those from a fat free diet sink.
Its amazing what you learn when having to clean out your own drains!
Michael Martin's son - Paul Martin is a MSP since 1999 - Glasgow Springburn.
http://www.alba.org.uk/scot07constit/g10.html -
As the son of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon Michael Martin, his claim to fame is to been the junior partner of the first father-son representation of the same constituency in the Westminster and Scottish parliaments. In the Scottish parliament he is the Ministerial Parliamentary Aide to the Lord AdvocateDeputy Party.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/paul_martin/interestsActivities.htm
Spokesperson on Community Safety
They should set the secret service on all of them like those German tax dodgers stashing their loot in Lichtenstein.
anonemo said...
"Did you buy yours outright?"
NO
"Did you earn half the amount Martin does now, in the ten years before 1999?"
No, but what's that got to do with it?
"How much do you think he paid for his present house?"
Don't Know. Do you? I imagine it was about £200,000 (about what I paid for mine).
How much equity did he get from his previous house?
Don't know. Do you?
We will know when speaker Martin is doomed. When Mr Brown gives him the customary "full confidence" kiss of death. We can only hope it comes soon.
anon@ 10:02
It was you who brought these up. None of them matter though. What matters is that this hypocritical, over promoted, parasitical popinjay, has got this property, and at least one other, from frenetic sucking at the public teat.
Oh, I nearly forgot, I was'nt comparing north south house prices, I put the refrence in to give southerners some idea of the size of the house.
having watched this story unfold and tread its weary way through the publics mind , spinning it as being a breech of the guidlelines (which quite a few of the older mps are supposed to do) rather than unlawful, and becketts gaff, that she didnt know about it and therefore we should deduce that its nasty campaign to oust him.
the red despot spotter is mindful of his most annoying speakers episodes over the last few years.
given as one anon mp said he was the worst speaker for 600yrs this is not just about expenses fiddles but somthing more to do with the esteem with which mps think he is doing the job.
i cannot recall of a speaker being villified as much, so i take this as guide that within the house there is a feeling that he is not doing the job as it should be.
of course he did shout at browns spad last year for erm shouting , next to his chair . but what galls the most in the publics eye during direct questions , despite protestations , he said "the prime minister will answer in his own way" !!
this practice has been going on for quite some time , of course under blair you got an answer that at least attempted to answer the honourable question posed and therefore some aspect of honour in our adviscerial form of goverment was maintained .
you can pictuure mr cameron asking six serious questions about the economy and gordon responding with "parsnips mr speaker parsnips" and him not saying a word about the pms responses.
this slight of hand , wether due to mr speakers metal fabrication background or somthing more to do with deft labour fraternalism in a time of trouble , is the matter .
mr speaker should be rounding on gordon like "a public lion" defending the ability of the house to debate for the benefit and service of the public.
it is clear he has little intention of upping the game when it is needed , as more of his parties deceptions are discovered . if mrs becket wishs to call this a "nasty campaign" she is entitled to do so , if mrs beckett wishes to let the house degenerate into , a childrens tea party , she will not be getting my vote.
a few weeks (longer if some tory mps are heeded) ago mr speaker was gently asked to consider standing down , no fuss , cheers alround , well done old chap etc etc . he declined . unfortuantely he did not realise what new times were emerging and is now caught in a trap of his owns parties abilities to up hold parlimentary standards. a call for for him to go is more about the service to the public and to debate , he is a bigger fool than i thought he thinks he will get off lightly trying to evade the nations requirements of parliment.
but he can always answer in his own way, "parsnips i say parsnips"
"By convention the speakership switches across the floor "
Not so: the Tories have hung on to it at least twice since WWII. Pillock.
To paraphrase God's Englishman
"What shall we do with this gorbel
bauble?"
So Maggie Beckett reckons that the press and other have it in for Gorbals Mick? Too fucking right, the useless thieving git. Beckett's an authority on pissing our money up the wall, having presided so incompetently over the scandal at the Rural Payment Agency. She wouldn't know the meaning of financial probity if it hit her in the face: http://www.politics.co.uk/issueoftheday/domestic-policy/farming/farming/rural-payments-agency-report-$469699$469699.htm
Her reward for such incompetence? Blair makes this useless bag carrying hag his Foreign Secretary. And she was shit at that job too, so what does Brown do? He puts her in charge of his Intelligence and Security Committee! So much for the terrorist threat..You couldn't make this shit up! We are surely being run by thieves and vagabonds.
Muslim Pakistan bans youtube!
yes the free speech loving muslim goverment in Pakistan has banned the public video site youtube, how long before the Muslims here demand the same and Labour and PC `Dave` give in to them?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/25/pakistan.youtube?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
It should be becoming a tad clearer why pigs go into politics. Of course it's not much different in other countries...and they all pale into insignificance when compared with the EU bureaucracy. The only difference is that our home-grown trough-snouters were empowered by a crassly stupid electorate while the EUSSR saddlebacks simply appointed each other.
Oooh look! He's a doing a Nazi salute!
I would say to those calling martin a useless cunt, he's not half as bad as beckett was during her time at Defra. She set new lows in an area where nulab has always prided themselves, pissing on the countryside.
John Spellar - Labour MP and full-time stupid cunt - was on Radio4 this morning trying to defend Pigsy Martins.
"Snobbery blah blah, no lawbreaking blah blah, I blame the press blah blah...."
These people are without shame. They think they are entitled to mountains of loot, yet half of them couldn't earn half as much in the competitive economy.
If Greedy Martins or Prick Spellar worked for Sainsbury's, does anyone believe they would be put in charge of a store?
And they do fuck-all in terms of national politics. Does Martins insist that the Executive is accountable to the legislature? Does Spellar give a shit if he does?
Your average MP does mainly case work - which is fair enough - and their salaries should therefore be benchmarked against salaries at the Citizens' Advice Bureau. End of!
Let's hope Rocking Gordo holds on to Mucky Mick , as there are more skeletons to roll out of the closet...why hasten a death by a 1000 cuts?
listening to the same old list of Labour defenders, I am now thinking they have all been gorging themselves on the public purse for so long that they honestly don't believe they are doing anything wrong. They are utterly without morals and too thick to realise it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7262190.stm
What a fucking surprise Gory backs his mate up
What about the Observer's story that Dept of Health officials have made an average of 2 changes to Wikipedia per day from government computers?
I see that NuLab's little helpers, Brown's Broadcasting Corporation (previously know as Bliar'sBC) is putting out v strong support for little piggy Martin. No surprise there then. According to Nicola Clegg (LD leader in case you don't know who I mean) will not comment on what he says is a witch-hunt. Ha Ha How does it go?
Boil and bubble, toil and trouble....
You can hear the grunting and squealing and the scrape of trotters to get to the trough as fast as possible now.
New Labour is finished, but the pigs are going to stuff their fucking faces before they are put out to pasture - alas, slaughtering them is not on the agenda.
As a taxpayer, I want someone, anyone to go after the dishonourable gentlemen (and ladies) for every penny the fat, thieving, piggy, politico bastards have stolen from us.
I want my money back.
From what I could hear on the radio this morning, I gather the spin from Martin's Leftist chums is that this is all a conspiracy by Tory toffs who despise him because he used to be a sheet metal worker.
So I thought I would take a few minutes break from work to state that I, as a skilled and experienced sheet metal worker, think that the Speaker is a greedy, corrupt, partisan cunt. And if he does get fired, he needn't bother applying for a job here. I wouldn't trust him to fold a 90 degree angle in a sheet of 20 gauge without cocking it up.
Yes, George Foulkes has joined the list of usual suspect who have been stauchly defending this speaker. We had the misfortune of having him as our constituency MP until the last election and I exchanged correspondence with him on many occasions over topics as diverse as GM crops and Tony Blair's lies, evasions and manipulations of the truth in the run up to the war on Iraq. In every case George faithfully parotted the party line, never once answering a line of question and proving himself to be a servant of the Labour Party before a servant of the people of these Isles.
Wasn't George Foulkes the MP who backed up Thomas "Dunblane Massacre" Hamilton's efforts to get a gun licence? Great judgement there,too.
More muck-raking on the Speaker's unimpeachable character here
http://tinyurl.com/2u238q
Take him down to the basement, the firing squad is waiting. Bloody little red.
So the Rocky Horror show regect Margeret Becket thinks the thieving of gorballs mick and his greedy wife is just a nasty little story, which just about sums New Labour up, nose and trotters in the trough slobber all you can and the moment any thing appears to threaten the gravy train up with the smoke screen. As for Gorballs doing a good job that ranks with Hitler being given the Nobel peace prize. Wake up Beckett, open the caravan door and smell the coffee your collective greed is all being exposed
http://pubs1.tso.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080421/text/80421w0001.htm#08042131000007
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