Reply to: the Speaker's statement

[Cyberman]

Brown has basically signalled that that obnoxious little hobbit Blears will be fired...so please PLEASE let the Torygraph discover that Primarolo has been equally corrupt.

He is dithering though probably because he knows that she is a bad enemy to make. She should have been fired already and the fact that she hasn't is going to cost him what little credibility he had with the electorate.

[PM-Junkie]

Haven't seen anything about;

Jaquie "If you have nothing to fear" Smith
Harriet "court of public opinion" Harman Or
Dawn "You're all permies and so not allowed expenses or dividends" Primarolo

They would all be on my list regardless of how much ammo I had.

Brown has basically signalled that that obnoxious little hobbit Blears will be fired...so please PLEASE let the Torygraph discover that Primarolo has been equally corrupt.

[Cyberman]

I remember that reported last week. No-one is innocent!

It is a legitimate expense if you miss your last train to grab a taxi home and charge it to the business. Many companies allow this.

[Doggy Styles]

Haven't seen anything about;

Jaquie "If you have nothing to fear" Smith
Harriet "court of public opinion" Harman Or
Dawn "You're all permies and so not allowed expenses or dividends" Primarolo

They would all be on my list regardless of how much ammo I had.

I'm sure I've heard about the first two (apart from the porn films), but you're right about Dawn - her skeletons haven't been released from the cupboard yet.

I'd just love it.. etc

[Pondlife]

I remember that reported last week. No-one is innocent!

Haven't seen anything about;

Jaquie "If you have nothing to fear" Smith
Harriet "court of public opinion" Harman Or
Dawn "You're all permies and so not allowed expenses or dividends" Primarolo

They would all be on my list regardless of how much ammo I had.

[Doggy Styles]

Incidently, George Osbourne has quietly had to repay £400 he claimed for a chauffeur driven car to take him from some constituency piss-up in Cheshire back to London because he missed the last train. Haven't seen that one in the nationals (yet).

I remember that reported last week. No-one is innocent!

[Cyberman]

Fantastic stuff. Who were the two old duffers who gave apoplectic speeches afterwards where they were nearly crying.

I love this. "We've all been on the rob and it's YOUR fault because YOU didn't do anything about it."

Incidently, George Osbourne has quietly had to repay £400 he claimed for a chauffeur driven car to take him from some constituency piss-up in Cheshire back to London because he missed the last train. Haven't seen that one in the nationals (yet).

At least that expense does bear some relation to his work though. He ranks rather lower in the rank of trough-diggers IMO.

[Platypus]

Yes, this is the snot goblin's plan.

It won't work.

We'll see - but I fear it just might

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well yes and no - if he goes, all the other MPs will say "look, problem sorted, now let's draw a line under this and carry on" thereby sidestepping the real issue

Yes, this is the snot goblin's plan.

It won't work.

[PM-Junkie]

Well yes and no - if he goes, all the other MPs will say "look, problem sorted, now let's draw a line under this and carry on" thereby sidestepping the real issue

They can think what they like - everyone outside the House of Commons knows this is only the first head to roll. Joe Public ain't going to be satisfied with just Martin...and if nothing else the MPs will discover this either when they come to be selected by their consituency party (which most of them won't be), or when it comes to the ballot box.

There's two issues, an incompetant Speaker who was clearly both biased and out of his depth, and corruption/fraud in the House of Commons. This deals with the first issue, now we turn to the second.

I think this one has a long way to go yet....

[FSM with Cheddar]

Well yes and no - if he goes, all the other MPs will say "look, problem sorted, now let's draw a line under this and carry on" thereby sidestepping the real issue

Yeah, they will try. I'm not sure if there is anything that can stop this witch hunt now though.

[Platypus]

Finally some progress.

Well yes and no - if he goes, all the other MPs will say "look, problem sorted, now let's draw a line under this and carry on" thereby sidestepping the real issue

[FSM with Cheddar]

Looks like he is going to go!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8057203.stm

Finally some progress. Now we need a General Election.

[cailin maith]

Looks like he is going to go!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8057203.stm

[Doggy Styles]

Yeah - up to a point, however MPs also passed a freedom of info Act and then the speaker spent a good few thousand of our money trying to get it bent not to apply to them (including himself and his not so faultless record of troughing). The irony is that if he hadn't, we wouldn't know as much as we do now about the MPs being on the rob - maybe that's why they're so annoyed with him.

WHS also