Reply to: Speaker's Gone!

[NotAllThere]

my Granny gave me sound advice, 'always get decent speakers'...

Was she Mrs Richer Sounds?

[HairyArsedBloke]

My favourite MP is Frank Field, and he should now get the job

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...the-House.html

George Galloway?

[Doggy Styles]

Like Douglas Hogg?

What bit of "the old days" didn't you understand?

[DodgyAgent]

My favourite MP is Frank Field, and he should now get the job

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...the-House.html

[Cyberman]

Some people here seem to ignore the fact that Gordon Brown has been claiming a second home allowance when he has actually been in free accommodation at No11/10 for 12 years. That must be around 200K he has robbed us of !!!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Like Douglas Hogg?

Or James Clappison, a millionaire Tory MP who owns 24 homes and claimed more than £100,000 in expenses even though he does not have a mortgage.

or Millionaire Tory MP Greg Barker who pocketed £320,000 in just over two years from buying and selling a flat he bought with the help of expenses.

or millionaire Tory shadow cabinet member David Willetts who claimed £115 for the replacement of 25 light bulbs in his second home!

or millionaire Tory Alan Duncan, a former oil trader,who spent £4,000 over three years on his garden.

Good job none of these "moneyed" Tories felt the need to screw the system

[Bagpuss]

Blair and Brown had to bribe some influential trades-union types. He was one -Prescott was another. Makes you yearn for the old days of moneyed Tories for whom it wasn't worthwhile to screw public finances.

Like Douglas Hogg?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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.
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Indeed - and Lord Archole

[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.

[Badger]

Bet he gets a nice seat in the Lords

[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 !!!!

[EternalOptimist]

Dan Hannan and doug Carswell, two to watch IMO


look out Cameroon

[EternalOptimist]

Linky

SFW

Bastard not going until 21 June

four weeks notice ?

I wonder what the significance of that is ?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Linky

SFW

Bastard not going until 21 June

[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.