Speaker's Gone!

[PM-Junkie]

It's not a problem that he's working class, or that he's Scottish. It's a problem that he's stupid, useless, and corrupt.

That wasn't the point. The point was that they shoe-horned in someone that they saw as the opposite of the person who it would have gone to because of their silly class hatred. Some who was clearly not up to the job almost from day 1.

[ace00]

Contractors should not be allowed to comment on expenses claims. Unless the time taken to do the comment is in itself an expensable allowance. In which case go for it. 40p a minute.

[Mich the Tester]

Contractors should not be allowed to comment on expenses claims. Unless the time taken to do the comment is in itself an expensable allowance. In which case go for it. 40p a minute.

1 pound

cheapskates going around undercutting me, pah!

[Doggy Styles]

It's not a problem that he's working class, or that he's Scottish. It's a problem that he's stupid, useless, and corrupt.

He gives working class Scots a bad name.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Linky

SFW

Bastard not going until 21 June

[EternalOptimist]

Linky

SFW

Bastard not going until 21 June

four weeks notice ?

I wonder what the significance of that is ?

[EternalOptimist]

Dan Hannan and doug Carswell, two to watch IMO


look out Cameroon

[Cyberman]

That's a good start.

Regardless of his role with the fees office, I don't think he was a very good speaker anyway.

How on earth did he get the job?

He got the job via Labour's massive majority in 1997. Yet another unsavoury anti-democratic episode instigated by Blair, unfortunately. The election of a speaker is supposed to be above party-politics but this one was not and Labour banned its MPs from proposing certain MPs as speaker, thus corrupting the vote.

The new speaker will be elected by secret ballot !!!!

[Badger]

Bet he gets a nice seat in the Lords

[TykeMerc]

Bet he gets a nice seat in the Lords

Entirely likely, but Brown probably will too in the long run.

A seat in the Lords isn't always (or often) an indication of merit Mandelson being an obvious example.
My youngest son asked me the other day while watching Jurassic Park why Richard Attenborough was a Lord and David only a Knight, I couldn't give him a good answer.