+++ Sky : Speaker to Resign this Afternoon +++
He presided over a period which saw parliament develop a culture of corruption. Not just the universal tendency of politicians the world over to travel on a taxpayer funded gravy train. He himself was compromised by being one of the most outrageous examples of personal enrichment at the public’s expense while pretending to be a public servant.
He also repeatedly failed in his duty to defend the rights of parliament against the power of the executive. He should not be allowed to retire with the dignity of a peerage, he has disgraced the office of Speaker.
Woohoo!
First?
1 down 650 to go
ans here’s hoping soon.
YES!! : The ‘reluctant’ Speaker is gone.
Mind you, we don’t know when he’ll step down yet. Don’t believe the bastard ’til the corpse has stopped twitching.
Nick Clegg claims a mighty scalp!
Sorry Dave you didn’t have the balls to call for him to resign so I’m afraid you can’t claim the credit for this one.
Though at least some of your MP’s were not so timid.
Dave was right not to call for him to go – right to leave it to the house – it gave it the sheen of wider ranging opinion, rather than the golden bullet of the leader of the opposition.
This must be Brown’s doing: any fallout from Harriet Hoonman announcing whether the House would debate the no-confidence motion would have been awful and he knew it.
In exchange for quietly falling on his sword, Gorbals has presumably been promised 72 virgins in the land of milk and honey?
Yeah, Dave was ballless on this one. Clegg’s an expenses maxed-out tosser, but at least he had the GUTS to say Gorballs Mick should go.
This one http://www.order-order.com/2009/05/we-need-a-name-for-this-scandal/#comment-99861 to leave 649
Congratulations to Carswell are in order, I think.
Do NOT pass go.
Do NOT claim a Peerage
Do NOT collect £100,000
Thieving dirty Hoon.
Now, f*ck off and die you fat illiterate b*stard.
Likewise, I have also decided to resign. Full statement here:
http://plonquer.blogspot.com
Dave was right to keep out of this. We got into this mes because of interference from Labour party leadership in getting Martin selected as Speaker.
Sir Stuart Bell next, I hope. Right brown-noser that one. Off with his head.
But how much is his going going to cost us?
I repeat, how much is his going going to cost us?
I wonder do they make a gun which holds 650 rounds?
Won’t leave office for about 6 weeks.
Well the Beeb are also reporting that he plans to resign as MP as well during the Summer. Should not be too difficult for Labour, if they lose they can always fiddle the result again and lose the marked register of voters.
Dave was right not to call for his resignation, had he stayed as speaker until after GE then Dave can install a speaker he likes.
This fucker next: http://www.order-order.com/2009/05/we-need-a-name-for-this-scandal/#comment-99861
thought i’d copy it here because this has to be one of the most disgusting examples, if true. Please investigage Guido! Let’s see what Cameron is really made of. Getting someone to resign an unpaid position isn’t really that impressive
“David Cameron and the Telegraph have only part-facts. The graud is far greater than reported and Kirkbride is more culpable than MacKay. They do not have aa `family` home in the constuency. Ut is a flat on the top floor of Beoley Hall, and is the home of Kirkbride`s brother, Ian Kirkbride. He therefore benefits in kind at taxpayers expense. He is also paid for computer work out of parliamentary expenses and has no other job. Kirkbride purchased the flat for £95,000 in 1997 and completely refurbished and furnshed it at taxpayers expense. The mortgage was repaid and a new mortgage taken out in order to continue with the fraudulent activities. After only four years it was refurnished again at taxpayers expense but the new items were receipted to Bromsgrove but delivered to London. The £50,000 claim for a bedroom extension is also a fraud as the Bromsgrove flat is not capable of extension and it is a listed building. Where is the planning application and listed building consent? It would also be interesting to have the name of the recipent of £2,100 cleaning costs and the receipt. Kirkbride also claims £1,300 spouse travel costs even thogh MacKay is hardly ever there and Beoley Hall is certainly not `home`. Meanwhile Mackay claims £500 in reciprocal travel costs for his wife in yet another spectacular act of deceit.
Nor do this pair own a flat in London as reported . They live in a large Georgian house in Vincent Square. Is spouse travel for trips to Bracknell or simply a double scam for going home? David Cameron has it wrong when he says the remedy is deselection because Kirkbride has her association sewn up and they will back her. The rerason is simple: Kirkbride exerts total financial control over the Dent family. Rita Dent is association secretary paid out of taxpayer funds, and a councillor following Kirkbride`s unsavoury discrediting of the sitting councillor who was anti-Kirkbride. Unemployed husband Alan Dent became a councillor under similar circumstances, and is now also association chairman. Daughter Naomi Dent was employed full-time as nanny to Kirkbride`s son Horatio at their London home, and her salary was claimed on parliamentary expenses as secretary. This family control the association on Kirkbride`s behalf. Any selection meeting would be fixed. David Cameron needs to grasp the nettle and remove her. If he does not his welcome tough-talking will be a sham. The problem will not go away. Kirkbride is a liability and these latest frauds are just the tip of the iceberg and there will be more to come. However messy Cameron must grasp the nettle now or the Kirkbride problem will continue to grow. A major fraud has been committed and Cameron needs to distance himself and the party from it – now!
(ps for an excellent analysis of the MacKay character see `Cranmer`- it reads as if the author knows MacKay almost as well as I do!)”
You may have shagged Darling’s eyebrowes, but you must have CUM in his hair.!
“I didn’t come into politics to not get what was owed to me.” This sentence speaks volumes about this self serving, bullying trougher. He was never a public servent, he was a career politician. As head of the expenses office he knew only two well what the level of corruption was; make no wonder he tried to suppress the information from getting out. Greedy fat bastard, off you go piggy. Good bye, Mr. Martin, good bye.
Indeed;
Bye Bye Snollygoster.
He should be made to repay from his own pocket the taxpayers’ money he spent on legal fees to try to surpress information to which we had a right – he spent it for personal and partisan reasons. And NO SEAT IN THE LORDS!! – for him nor any of the worst troughers.
To those who think Cameron bottled it: think again. The Speaker is the figurehead and representative of the Commons as a whole – any pressure on him form Party leaders would be quite wrong and policially inept. Clegg could only apply it because he is the leader of a minority party. It was obvious he was speaking out for the WHOLE opposition, on behalf of all backbenchers, where Cameran could not
Now we can have a REAL Speaker. Frank Ifield. He hasn’t done much since his 1960s single I Remember You but he has a much better yodel than Gorbels Mick.
Don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist or anything but did you know that ‘Michael Martin’ is an anagram of ‘A Minimal Retch’?
OK also: ‘Gorbals Mick’ is an anagram of ‘So Grim Black’.
See Dan Brown’s new movie for details…..
Why shouldn’t one get rewards for being in politics, at the age of 58 I am going into politics for the first time as a candidate for Libertas.eu to get all I can from it and here’s my list.
I want democracy in Europe. I want accountability and transparency. and most of all I want a Europe that works for the people, a Europe built on peace and prosperity for my children and my children’s children.
He can fuck off and sign on with the rest of the Labour voting twats.
…and if he insists on his pension rights then let’s ensure that the new government introduces a measure by which all public service pensions and pensions paid in and on the parliamentary estate are subject to a 95% pension tax to help offset some of the quadzillions of debt the troughers and their Liebour masters have imposed on the country
All his corrupt dealings and associates should be investigated. He should not be allowed to leave politics richer than when he entered it, and his pension should be confiscated.
A good point. And…
Martin could not help it? Born to trough?
If this bastard resigns and then gets a seat in the Lords I will lead the charge on parliament to overthrow the lot of them.
Join me on Saturday at noon
Hoon Flaps has gone over a year late, the government need to remember that the Country will go mental if he is given a peerage.
Maybe a new speaker will cut the crap out of PMQs, stopping the garbage plants that Labour drop 10 to 15 times a session.
McLovin lives in hope
Say something then?
The reason he’s resigning is bloody Esther Rantzen:
http://thestupidtimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/speaker-resigns-on-hearing-esther.html
The “public at large” don’t care!
here here
And will he please take the incontinent, incompetent other tartan muppet Brown with him.
I DO hope that you mean the Liebour Party here. I will take great offence otherwise.
I hope the bastard is lying about resigning and does not go through with it. I would love to see this shit hit the fan and the response from the dishonourable gentlemen.
This disgusting old boar was the appropriate symbol for the Parliament of Pigs. Ugly, stupid, corrupt, venal and vindictive – he was the walking, stumbling epitome of his washed up party and Government.. Let him go back to grubbing around the garbage in the Gorbals where he belongs.
PS > Don’t worry Mickey, love, I quite like you really!
WHAT IS the point of being first if you’re annonymous. Could be one of 3million to visit this site.
He’s going June 21st…….OFFICIAL BAD TEMPERED BRIEF STATEMENT
WIDDECOMBE AS AN INTERIM SPEAKER? omg>>>>>
Man, it must really have pissed off Davy Carmoon that he couldn’t have been more directly involved in chucking out the Squealer of the House. So, goodbye, then Marthoon: goodbye and stay dead.
Goodbye you fat, looting, purple-faced embarressment of a pig. An utterly incompetant, wretched excuse for a politician – and aren’t we all glad you can no longer enjoy your raping an pillaging of the public purse to further enhance your disgusting existance. Your only redemption, unlike the rest of the Socialist jokers is that you’ve seen the light and taken the rather difficult decision to fuck off instead of being removed eventually or, better still, lynched. Fucking freeloading Hoon – what a wanker.
Well you have only yourselves to blame. If you had kept me on you would never heard about of any of this, Allister would have seen to that, and been much happier. Only my receipts were accidentally shredded you would have seen I kept my word: I am as white as the driven snow.
Tony.
Why didnt the luftwaffe bomb westminster in the war ?
You may be first Mr Imaginative Anonymous – woohoo indeed, but not much point when you’re anonymous is there?
The more important ‘first’ is the departure of the 1st Hoon, Gorbals – leading the tsunami I hope.
It’s a start…
WHERE’S MA BENEFITS?
AH DINNAE KEN HOO AH’LL LAST WITHOOT MAH MULTIPLE-CLAIMED BENEFITS.
AH NEED TAE GIT ME SUM REDUHNDANSAE MUHNEE.
I would laugh when he returns to Scotland he found his house burnt to the ground in a Scottish show of solidarity in not wanting the bastard either.
Which house?
NEXT……keep them coming.
we don’t want him to resign we want him to commit ritual suicide in from of the entire House of Commons.
Any MP who has taken liberties claiming for morgages they don’t actually have and other thieving little habits can then do likewise. When the floor of the Commons runs red with blood I will be satisfied and Parliament can carry on. (though hopefully not with ID cards etc etc)
great
or or or orda
Order! Order A Taxi!
The Penguin.
To Celtic Park to join your other NuLabour losers.
Scum
See you there with Des Browne and John Reid on Saturday, Mick ?
Lets all go down together.
Didn’t I give you a great reference on TV last night, you honest, honest gentleman.
Good riddance – and what a hoon, he could have resigned yesterday in the House retainign a shred of dignity, and avoided last night’s Tv and today headlines. Shows the man has no intelligence or nous at all – blinded to morality and decency by his own egotism
He doesn’t have a stammer by the way – he’s not intelligent enough – so leave orf the mockery!
He hesitated when calling the House to order because he had no authority – and an inability to control his temper
i just wish he would stay on for longer -
every day this fu*kwit remains in office, labour loses a thousand votes. i want to see these labour stazis destroyed and perceived as unelectable for the next hundred years…
Bye bye, then, Gorballs Mick. Take your lardy, useless fat arse back up North to Holyrood where it might enjoy more appreciation.
fuckin keep him away from oor parliament we publish our expenses.
Too right.
You fed him, you retire him. Him, his wife, his son and all the other fucking hangers on can stay in London. Twats one and all.
Sorry, son. All criminals should be returned to the land of their birth. You sent him here, you can have him back.
There must be an unoccupied Scottish island where the returning scumbags can be housed. Complete isolation would be favourite with a weekly parachute drop of mars bars and 75lb of lard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island
Anonymous have you not thought of becoming an estate agent your choice for these scumbags shows a real flair for the job – brilliant
That proposed island on the far north-west of Scotland was used by the blokes from Porton Down for testing bio-weapons and still has traces of anthrax. A most excellent suggestion, then.
Save money and serve justice. Execute them all.
Gruinard is too close.
St Kilda is preferable.
Give him Fuckall on Rockall, that will do nicely!
Shame to recontaminate Gruinard after all the time and money they spent cleaning it up.
I know put them all on christmas island
That’s one McBastard down. Now Gordo, Alistair and all the other McBastards… Just piss off!
its MAC bastard you twat.
and while we are at it Scotland doesnt want him or any of them they are british keep em.
I don’t think so! They are your politicians, nurtured in and selected by your system.
They sit for Scottish seats, and should have stayed up there in your own parliament.
Devolution is a pig’s arse and has led to most of the current tension between the Scots and English.
They are Brits, each one of them wants nothing to do with Scotland.
no its Mc as in McScotch, which also pisses off the tartan clansmen, all of them blooody Mctarts.
Mac…Mc…Who gives a flying f**k. Just wish they would bugger off back up north and create mayhem in the Holyrood Parish Council. See if they can bankrupt that lot with the excessive expenses.
Always thought the Duke of Cumberland let them off lightly.
This time rebuild Hadrians Wall, with a few modifications. This time let it be 500 feet high and totally surround Jockistan, then fill it with cold piss…
North British M’Dear, no idea WHERE that is but they can ALL go there. Not welcome in Scotland. Darling was born in London, you can keep HIM.
Hah, guess that when Nick Brown needs a scapegoat and a distraction, these things happen.
Aye but if it was just for scapegoating purposes they could have kept him around for a while before casting him out into the wilderness.
Don’t forget they’ve still got Blears trussed up and ready to roast (double entendre intended). There must be something really horrific in the pipeline.
No more spit-roasting references. They hurt my soul.
Not even involving Rennard?
M, M, M, M, M, Mr Speaker……the political crisis That Started In Scotland….
I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I cannot bring myself to say the word resign – oh shit,I just said it!
Play him off, keyboard cat!
Damn, I love democracy. EH?
Please PLEASE PLEASE may this be true.
I wonder who it was that had a word in his ear yesterday??
Let’s hope he won’t go quietly, but having lost the support of Jonah decides he’s got to go too….
The Penguin.
The man whispered in his ear
“Your son can have your seat in Glasgow Mick”
If he’s a chip off the old block – bury him now.
The Queen leaned on Brown, and Brown has clearly leaned on Martin.
Clegg is speaking for backbenchers as a whole, where Cameron as main opposition leader and PM-in-waiting cannot. So in a sense our democracy, led by constitutional monarchy, has worked.
I have no doubt that Marm made it very clear to Broon that she was prepared if necessary to use the nuclear option – ie dissolve parliament.
god save the queen
Oh Sam what a load of rubbish. Cameron IS an establishment politician and HM had little to do with the Speaker going. Lab are in damage control mode and Martin is very expendable. Cameron is not the leader that will reform GB politics, e.g will he reform the Lords to be fully elected, will he ballocks. If he gets hisnway he wants to ride this scandal to get him into No 10, once in it’s back to business as normal, “managing” what’s left of the economy and quitening expectations of real reform. Anything is better than a him having a large majority because he won’t use it. A hung Parliament at least cocks things up for a while and stops mps interefering in our lives.
Could be right.
Brown has shown himself incapable of making difficult decisions.
It strongly suggests that somebody made his mind up for him.
Cheerio you fat scotch Hoon. McBroon, we’re coming for you next!
There’ll be a great bilein’ o’ heids in Westminster the nicht ah c’n tell ye….
AND NOW FOR BROWN AND HIS SPIVS AND THE LABOUR GOVT.
As the Genesis song went;
Get ‘em out by Friday!
…….
You don’t get paid till the last one’s well on his way.
Get ‘em out by Friday!
It’s important that we keep to schedule, there must be no delay
I hope this is true, however he must not be allowed to collect a golden good bye, or pension etc….
………
You don’t get paid till the last one’s well on his way.
Get ‘em out by Friday!
It’s important that we keep to schedule, there must be no delay
>>
i hope this is true
but NO golden goodbye, no pension perks, he has had my tax contribution – no more
Long after the bastards have sold England by the Pound.
Let’s hope the new speaker gives Call me Dave shit about claiming for his Wisteria and maximum second home allowance.
Oh, and Brown for nicking six and a half grand for a cleaner when he didn’t even live in the gaff.
Here, here. If he hires a good pair of eyes to do the cleaning then the fucker pays for it himself.
Wonder who was living in his gaff to make it dirty, and were they paying rent
That’s where he held the funny parties
Anymouse, at least show some some disrection. Whats wisteria compared to building a property empire on taxpayers’ money?
Do give Dolly our regards.
The Penguin.
Funny innit? Just when you think the fucker’s dead and buried…up he pops again.
Anybody know on what terms he will be leaving…..I have some rope and enough wood for a scaffold if it would help……
That’s the real issue – if he gets off with a 1.4 mill pansion and a peerage when they think we’ve forgotten all this
The terms will be via a little known door on the clockface of Big Ben,which – due to recent health and safety concerns brought about by 6.5 tonnes of Health & Safety legislation – has had to have the external stairs removed for fear people may slip.
Perhaps he can then perform a tandem parachute jump with James Gordon Brown – only without a parachute…..
That now stops the three chief robbing bastards from having to meet and come up with ways to stop all the thieving *******
Why has he chosen to go now? Did McBroon threaten to withdraw t he whip over his expenses?
Can someone tell me what the total pig swill bill has been over the last ten years for HM Pig Farm? Because I would like to know why that money has been withheld from our WW2 veterans so they could have lived on a decent pension.
THEY AWARDED THEMSELVES A £100 MONTH A WEEK FOOD ALLOWANCE ON TOP OF A £64,000 SALARY, AND AT THE SAME TIME GIVE £90 PER WEEK TOTAL FOR WW2 VETERANS TO LIVE ON!!
http://www.theunknownwarriors.co.uk
It’s almost impossible to live on the current pension – certainly impossible to live any sort of social life or run a car (pretty well a necessity in rural areas). Impossible to replace eg shoes or underwear, or buy anythign except the cheapest food.
It makes my blood boil! The people really suffering are those in their 70s and older – just the people who saved our democracy by their courage and sacrifice during WWII. What thanks to give them. It’s utterly shameful.
Yeah, did you read the letter complaining about the expenses in the Telegraph from a case worker from SSAFA who had to tell an ex POW of the Japanese that his application for some double glazing in his bathroom had been turned down due to lack of funds. It was £500 and he wanted it so he could have a bath as his bathroom was freezing.
The old hero said on hearing the news “Oh well, it could be worse, nothing is as bad as being on the railway” or words to that effect. He must have been at Hellfire Pass etc, then you read meanwhile our MP’s have been claiming thousands to roll their acres, fix the moats, fit their tacky homes out with silky cushions, home cinemas, chandeliers etc etc.
It’s sick.
All the politicians, quangocrats, guardianistas and their clients should be forced to live on less than pensioners, and beaten if they complain.
A good point made in this blog earlier:
Pay MPs on a pro-rata based on % increase of NET state pension.
MP pay only granted if that pension is affordable (by consensus) to the nation.
Bottom Line – if you have the power and opportunity to create real wealth for ALL of the electorate, present and future, then you don’t get to benefit !
Period.
I hate the bastards,string them up.
Then Mr Martin has just become a very rich man and a Lord.
Asn’t ee done well???!!!
Luckily, his resignation now means he will forfeit the £100,000 payment for being in office til the end of this parliament, and other pension rights. Unleess Broon has made a deal that he will keep it! – which no doubt was Gorbals’ condition. either way he is still a very rich man, the hoon.
Reduce the piano-wire order by five yards…
Nah. If he’s set free we’ll only see him in three years time as part of yet another Sunday Times undercover investigation.
Hoots Mon! There’s a noose, loose aboot this hoose!
Can I have his flat please?
Expect now he’ll get a cushy seat and generous expenses in the House of Lords for his long and faithful service .
He may stand down as Speaker but isn’t it possible he stays on as a MP? After all, he wants his son to succeed him and a by-election wouldn’t be good for labour right now – even though it is in their Scottish heartlands.
Nothing like a socialist to love the right of succession!
This scum put CESS in succession.
May he rot in hell.
Hi SR, he’ll stay if his pride lets him sit on the back benches and I’m not sure what the odds are on that – not great I think. Didn’t Jo Swinson sign the no confidence motion against him as well? I think his constituents will have something to say about Martin’s son being parachuted in – much as they did for Gould and Prescott.
Na nothing will be said, no one will be told, the press in england wont mention anything about.
as for the media in scotland, well there isnt one, or what passes for one is totaly controled by labour.
so if the good people of england want ridd of labour you had better look north and make sure your press / media are watching scotland otherwise they will be back, mostly via postal votes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
They would just fiddle the ballot boxes like they did with the last one.
Postal Votes?
The Penguin.
Yeah, watch the postal vote scams, these bastards have PHds in vote rigging and troughing.
Convert them all to rashers
Should put in a FOI request to see how much he was paid off
Good idea.
Hallelujah!
Keep the pressure on…don’t let the rest of them think that this is the end
IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!!!
Yep – get this fucker out. http://www.order-order.com/2009/05/we-need-a-name-for-this-scandal/#comment-99861
I’m confused.
Is this the beginning of the end or just the end of the beginning?
Does it matter?
About time. Next?
JAMES GORDON BROWN
J G Broon doesn’t have the nerve, balls or intelligence to realise that he is through.
As usual he is the very last to realise it.
He is not only a complete failure but a positive danger to this country.
He has done enought damage and must be got out as soon as possible.
Can all those around him really be that stupid?
Yeah its all his fault forcing the poor B***** to take all that money. Like locking alcoholics up in a pub and blaming them for having a drink
BBc confirms it too.
The ghastly oik has finally gone.
If it’s on the Beeb, it can’t be true.
Don’t count your chickens.
He’s probably been sorting out his early retirement package with advice from Sir Fred Goodwin.
If we had an English Parliament, could we deport him as an undesirable Scots alien?
The English don’t want him. The Scots don’t want him. Let Hell take him.
Take him down!
Now if he resigns immediately, then he must resign as mp also and a by election and Labour will lose it. Brown already been warned.
They’ll fiddle the ballot boxes like they did with the last one.
He won’t resign immediately.
His soul is black with troughing.
The dignified man.
Fucking good riddance you Scottish bastard||||||||||||
Ditto
Now watch the devious MPs (the majority) say draw a line in the sand and start again with a clean slate. In other words get off Scot free with their fraudulent expenses claims.
“Scot” free – now that would be a dream for us englanders!
I don’t think that’s going to work. Joe Public is taking an interest in politics for the first time in 20 years. They’re not going to lose interest until the Troika is empty.
You Engerlanders have been saved from the fire of poverty by asset stripping Scotland. You can keep the BRITNATZ scum like Martin and his Westminster clan. They are just spineless greedy bastards and wil fit in perfectly down there.
In the meantime we will get on with taking Scotland out of the UK, and then you will have to find some other nation to blame for your poverty of moral fiber and wealth.
Then we can keep you ginger headed fuckwits away..thanks.
can i man hadrians wall with a garrison of redcoats to keep the wankers out
Or more the case, get off free with a Scottish Scapegoat.
It’s not going to be that easy. Here in Luton South the water is hot to touch! Local anger is so great that we’ve got the Esther Rantzen wanting to boost her flagging career – from requiring her to participate in Strictly Come Dancing (2004) and I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (2008), this would be the sequel; I’m a Celebrity…Vote Me Into Parliament! (2010)
I’m putting my candidacy forward for independent MP – and I’ll take ‘em all on, celebrity and sleazy!
almost worth moving to Luton to vote for you Doc
Another head on the pike Guido!
AND NOW DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT
Seconded!
TWAT!
Thirded
Make him pay back every penny that he and his old lady sucked out of the system.Show no mercy. Persue him until he cannot take breath.
If you do that, they will all have to cough up. Which will occur just after the Red Arrows mounts go weee weee weee all the way home.
Of all the Hoons in all the world Mr Speaker takes the biscuit. ( Apart from Gordon of course)
No, Martin takes the biscuit charges it to expenses…
Brown takes the biscuit and charges the pack to expenses!
Talking of biscuits, are you related to Dr Crackers?
Martin, always a sideshow to the process of locking up the crooks in Parliment.
Still a lot of huffing and puffing from MP’s…get on with it! The UK taxpayer is waiting. (nor have they forgotten GrannyGate Spelman and those that supported her)! No Taxpounds back from that episode yet!
Not at all impressed lots of noise little real action.
Actually, old boy, it was Nannygate, and LaSpelman’s name has been mud with the Tory faithful ever since.
Martin’s not a sideshow – he’s a perfect (and formerly powerful) example of the Labour establishment. If he’s gone, none of the Labour Mafia can feel safe.
His whole family have been at the trough for years, it’s not been any secret in the West of Scotland. But nobody would dare challenge them because they were thought to be untouchable.
There will be a lot of Scottish MPs (not to mention councillors) quaking in their boots now. Especially the ones who handed over six-figure sums to take over safe seats at the time of the boundary changes.
Ooops, wll at least I got the gender right, nanny granny all the same to me.
Martin, a sideshow in effect to sacking grasping MP’s.
Welcome all the same!
My sack of shite just shrunk
How times have changed. I found myself tuning into sky to get the factual lowdown rather than the BBC.
Sad isn’t it
BBC “news” is a f*cking joke and has been for years. Sure, if you want to find out all about Peter and Jordan or Richard and bloody Judy, then the Beebs the very channel. However, those of us who don’t give a SH1T about these non-entity ‘celebrities’ have to search for REAL news elswhere (even though we’re still obliged to fork out for a f*cking useless broadcaster we can’t bear to watch).
Yes, my morning news is now from SKY. I despise adverts but I also like to actually know what is going on.
‘Nick Clegg claims a mighty scalp’
Nick who? He’ll not be the next Pm, he can say what he likes. This came from clever backbench work, Clegg jumped on later.
Yes well done Nick Clegg. May a cloud of shame descend upon Cameron and his crooked cabal.
“Cleggie! Why what’s he been up to Nora?”
Agree with this – backbenchers started the whole process, not Cleggover. Let’s hope MPs don’t waste this opportunity to get a good honest parliamentarian installed as new Speaker – and then the real work can begin. Richard Shepherd anyone?
Richard Shepherd is the man for me – but I will be amazed if he gets the post. As for acknowledging who is the most instrumental in bringing this about – there is only one name in the frame – Douglas Carswell.
bill cash or kate hoey
Hey there Geordie Girl ;) David Winnick (Lab) seems to be a decent chap as well – better than the touted Frank Field who never seems to put his money where his mouth is.
‘a good honest parliamentarian’
that certainly narrows down the potential candidates.
Michael Martin for me, very experienced operator, knows the piano-wire!
Great, but this is not enough, he must not be the scapegoat.
The whole lot needs clearing root and branch, the systems, secret practices and arcane procedures of MPs and the House need the spotlight on them.
This should be an almighty wake up call.
Guido has got to be right about this – there is no honour in this resignation and he should not receive an honour.
That’s the first step – now to purge the House of every MP that took our money and spent it on themselves.
None of them should be allowed to have a seat in the house of lords, the whole rotten lot should be kicked out without a pension, they can live of what they have stolen over the years. sod ‘em all.
and reduce the numbers of Mp’s by pissing off all the jocks, they have their own parliament do they not? why should we suffer the thick porridge wogs down here?
The finances of all politicians should be audited before and after office to ensure that they have not profited from the public purse. Enhanced interrogation methods should be applied.
Fuck me this is better than an orgasm!!!!!!!!!!!!
You sex life must be really, really crap. :)
It sure is my friend,any offers??.
you appear in fact to be the same person…
Don’t argue :)
That the Squeaker is said to be resigning *only* after having lost the trust of Gordon Brown, shows how blinkered and partisan The Squeaker had become.
The question then is, what has he been given to convince him to leave? A goot kicking hopefully but no doubt it’s going to be a title and a big payoff.
Who is this Stuart Bell creature that seems to so thoroughly enjoy defending the expenses and the Squeaker?
Brown needed someone to fall on their sword, but if Brown thinks that this is the end he is sadly mistaken, it is just the beginning of the end for Brown and his government.
A Sad alleged Christian is our Stuart and not a very nice person at all.
Blimey – I’ve got more Christian values and ethics than that tosser and I’m an atheist.
We need a list of all MPs showing their religious and national affiliations.
How many members of the government are
(a) Catholics,
(b) Scots, or
(c) Both?
Yes GG there are a lot like him. I knew a bunch of people in the City that used to go to prayer meetings on Tuesdays and then go back to work and lie, cheat and conspire. We called them CFJ = crooks for Jesus.
He’s another piece of filth who should be cleaned from the system.
Without Gorbals to protect him at PMQs McMental will lose it in public, then it’s bye bye Brown.
Lets hope the new Speaker will get him to answer a question instead of a string of trac stats.
That’s why he won’t be going any time soon. You know it, Brown knows it.
It is, after all, why he was made speaker in the first place.
Give it to Frank Field, MP.
He has a couple of scores to settle with McMental and NuLabour can’t complain at a 3rd Labour Speaker in a row.
Scrumptious.
If this is true (count no chickens…) his resignation speech will be interesting. For what will he take responsibility? He could do much to repair the political damage the House of Commons has sustained if he carries the can for the long-term inertia of his expenses reform committee. He could make it worse if he doesn’t.
Pawn sacrifice…
Knights rooked us all
Queen says: still cheque mate
guido out of interest i thought you might like to know that where gorbals mick comes from is named after the bells that lepers used to wear because the gorbals was a leper colony (gore bells). Martin is now a political leper for whom the bell has tolled.
Let’s see the flesh rot off his skeleton then.
He came from Springburn not the Gorbals.
he was given the name incorrectly by the smart mouthed Quentin Letts.
Let’s have a by-election…..No scrub that – just go the whole hog and have a General Election. NOW
When is someone going to state the obvious. Our Democracy stinks. Who protects us from our MP’s not the speaker, not the Queen not the courts. We are stuffed left right and centre.
You can find out why here: O Rose, thou art sick It’s all down to Statutory Instruments and Orders in Council.
It is just history repeating itself. It is the human condition. There have always been people at the top and people at the bottom. And just for fun since the beginning of the early modern era we have had the middle classes who envy those above and show disdain for those below.
This is why socialism is a sham. Leaders (good or bad) rise. People put their own interests first. This is why the monkeys came down from the trees.
Leaders are necessary. Some has to make the primary movement. The yay or the nay. Consensus only works up to a point………
Now they have to find a more plausible, immoral cretin who will allow them to steal our money whilst pretending that they are beyond reproach.
All politicians, please be aware that henceforth I will be treating you with the utter contempt that you have shown for the people. Do not go into pubs or shops or any public place without heavy disguises. You have brought disgrace on yourselves, on Parliament and upon this nation.
I think we should seal up the Palace of Theftminster and see if we can get along without the help of a gang of lying, thieving scumbags. Things can only get better!
And impeach Blair on charges of treason!
Fuck off you bloggers. I’m not leaving office until I’ve shredded all my wife’s expense claims.
Do they have industrial sized shredders at Westminster? Silly of course they do.
Fuggin hell, does this mean no more taxi trips to Harrods for Lady Gorbals? Poor old Mick will never get another blow job. Bastard will have to pay for them with his own money in future. Hang on, he doesn’t have any of his own money, it was all scammed off the taxpayer. Where’s the phone number for the Assets Recovery Agency?
Already shredded along with Blair’s, it is rumoured.
Bulls-Eye!
At about 4 p.m. and not before time. Take the hint Brown and join him. Parliament should go. Election time looms.
Parliament should also go and give us the chance to look to start afresh.
I suppose Clegg comes out of this with some dignity.
Labour is scrabbling in the trough of greed and corruption.
Thereshould be a body to monitor the conduct and finances and standards of political parties and their candidates, to prevent the repetition of the corruption that has bedevilled them, and which has not yet been cleared.
I wonder if Gordon talks in his sleep?
M M M M Mi Mis Mister speaker.
Brown wouldnt have the balls to get rid of him, i suspect he felt betrayed by Brown and his scottish pals and decided to go himself, question is how poisonous will the speech be?
Will he go quietly, I am thinking not.
Any chance that the taxpayer will NOT have to pay for Gorbals Mick’s housemoving back to Glasgow? I doubt it.
NuLabour has always held Parliament in contempt. That is why Martin got the job. It didn’t matter that he wasn’t up to the job he ticked all the necessary boxes: right nationality, right background, right religion, right level of intelligence, right grasping attitude.
One of things that all gets over looked IMHO is how much Labour relied on Lords to fill government posts. Purely political appointees no need for ministers to be democratically elected.
It is to be hoped that after all this mess the British take more interest in politics and return to their roots.
Remember Martin has been sacrificed to keep Gordon in power.
Respect!!
Couldn’t agree more. and many of those lords were of course, Labour donors. It’s disgusting how they’ve been able to give completely undeserving arseholes seats in the HoL and then used that to shoe them in to cabinet. No unnecessary trifle of democracy to deal with then.
They really are like the Stasi.
Agree entirely Guido
There are those queing up to heap ‘praise’ on the poor excuse for a human being. I do not think he should be given anything except the full shame of his dealings.
Still have doubts when this will happen though.
Now need someone who can take charge of the little shits in parliament and sort out the constitution – because what we have is patently rubbish.
Dave was right in the way he handled things.
However it will be a travesty of justice if Martin is sent to the Lords. I think Holloway or Wormwood Scrubs is more appropriate.
Fuck that, send him to the Bar L.
We must not allow it. If they try, we must protest by marching. These bastards have to understand that it is the people who have the power.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=80639781877
Right.
Dave must stay quietly focused.
He may have his own problems with party troughers but a firm hand and quiet dignity will see him through.
Let Broon rush off to YouTube and make a prick of himself; he is doomed anyway and just a dead man walking.
Time to go Broon…wake up and smell the coffee!!!!
Listened to Dave on the way to work this morning.
He understood his constitutional position and trod the fine line that was required well.
Saw on Toenails’ blog a post about the day of the week being very pertinant. If he goes today then tomorrow will be for appointing a replacement so no PMQs this week nor next. Doubt if he will step down today, Thursday will be the earliest I would say.
Anonymouse – 11.10
Ah the Nu-Lab troll on the block, you are pretty obvious my friend.
I repeat the obvious, backbenchers started this, Cameron wisely played the politics well and avoided another one of McBust’s potential elephant traps.
The Queen is clearing her diary for the next few days.
Only so she can help Hogg clear his Moat
Speaker’s statement on 504 Sky at 2.10pm.
BBC saying he won’t go immediately but in the “near future”. As long as it’s not “at the next GE”
There will be uproar if he doesnt go immediately, has Brown told him that he’s calling a general election at the press conference at 5.30pm.
BBC saying that leaders’ meeting will still go ahead and that speaker’s date of leaving will be tied in with that meeting somehow – suppose means a date will be set in meeting.
The Times thinks he’s going immediately:
“He is expected to leave with immediate effect, rather than trying to stay on in the post until the next election.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6318255.ece
Do they have a source for that?
Seriously, I can’t see how he can stay on another day, even, under the circumstances he should step down immediately.
The fat pigging slob will still get his 60k a year pension and a directorship on one of the Banks for services to the elite.
GORDON BROWN IS RESIGNING AT HIS NEWS CONFERENCE AT 5.30PM
Good Queen Bess says:
I’ve been looking forward to hearing that myself. Promise he’ll ask me this afternoon?
More likely declaring a state of emergency and implementation of the Civil Contingencies Act.
It’s the right thing to do.
If only…. If that were true, then I would declare a national holiday.
Evidence? Source?
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Well it looks Ok, but I don’t think there are enough stops for food in there.
What a pillock!
If he’d announced yesterday that he was standing down at the next election then I really think Cameron would have let him off.But the Nulab Scottish Mafia decided that they weren’t having it and messed up yet again.
Does this mean a by-election-Glenrothoes revisited?Keep your eyes on the marked register.
Don’t let another Huhne (majority c568) in as Speaker
Chris Hoon, of course! What hasn’t this occurred to me before?
“Huhne” is the next step in the meme. “You’re a complete huhne”, “Gordon is a huhne”, etc., etc. The “uh” in the word makes it somehow filthier, more redolent of a sweaty humping, than a mere “hoon”.
Someone on promoting John Bercow as speaker.
Is Bercow a milly-molly-mandy?
Is he a trougher?
I’ll vote for that!
No he’s a Gooner, which is nearly as bad.
Do we smell an election?
Speaker says “he’ll go in the near future”, Brown meeting with the NEC today and then Brown to hold press conference at 5.30pm. Has Brown decided enough is enough and it’s all over.
We can but hope and pray!
And then Dave has to deselect any troughers in his party to give people reason to vote for him
I reckon that the Cabinet meeting discussed the way forward. The pressure is too great. They see their time is up.
It is now about damage limitation.
NEC to put measures in place to ‘clean up’ candidates.
McBroon to announce he is to see the Queen tomorrow before he then comes to PMQ’s where he will announce that there will be a prolonged lead in period, first to allow the clean up period and then a General Election, probably in July.
I now want to see MP’s to have real power over the executive. I want to see an offence of lying or withholding information from an MP to be imprisonable. I want to see that when you ask your MP to investigate some crap that the executive are handing out to you, they can give you a substantive answer, not spout off the excuses you have heard already.
Power to the people
Wolfie – Smurf
I want to see an offence of lying or withholding information from an MP to be imprisonable
That’s taking things a bit far….as with estate agents, lying is in their DNA/part of the job description
Ministers who proposed unsuccessful policies, and MP’s who voted for them should be fined and beaten, or even executed. We need a supervisory body to arrange this; how about a reformed House of Lords?
We also have small erection in Japan
No
Brown has his monthly press conference later.
He is also going to try and impress us all by telling of his plans to stop labour party wonks having their cake as he has. More dribble and drivel from the sainted one!
Nah, I dont think it is as straight forward as the words ” resign today” would have us believe.
Manuvouring is the game in play.
Resign at his convience is not resigning today.
I still waiting for all the dirt of Balls to see the light of day.
This is what happens when one of the lower orders gets above himself. Molluscan IQ, no breeding, no education, no presence. Serves him right.
Exactly. Got above himself, the wanker.
Crap. Nothing to do with class. He is not a martyr for anybody or anything apart from his own incompetence.
He has served himself right royally, at our expense, and should be executed along with the filth who supported him.
Perhaps the speaker needs to be somebody other than MP. Without wishing to compromise the separation of powers perhaps a senior judge should hold the post?
Disagree. The Speaker must have the credibility of having been elected like the other members. However, a new rule that it must be an independent MP without party affiliation (or history) might answer.
Why make such a fuss about the Speaker, apart from the amazing perks? Why should it be a lifetime job? There must be lots of MP’s who could chair a meeting. Why should it be the same person all the time? Let there be a rotation, or first to arrive takes the chair, or if a permanent figure is wanted let it be the Clerk or some non-political rules lawyer.
He’s not gone until you see a furniture van moving his belongings out and him on a bus back to Glasgow until then,well I can wait.
He does not do buses – only chauffeur driven cars for this tosser.
How many more kilt wearing casualties will there be?
hopefully loads – don’t ya just get sick of hearing Scottish voices everywhere – say that as 25% Scot myself!
well theres one blank broon and the haggis waffeler darling
Hooray should save taxpayers something on his £1.4 million pension pot. Now Mr Duncan how about it ,if you value your Reputation and Integrity so highly “Fall on your Sword ” you know it makes sense.Go on ALAN do it .
Mr .Cameron favours deselection of troughers
This useless, fat Hoon should never have been given the job in the first place. That furore of condemnation surrounding his appointment all those years ago should have signified all was not well even then, wouldn’t you have thought? This is what happens when the people’s wishes are ignored.
Woke up this morning after dreaming of watching them all: the Speaker, and a mixed crowd of MPs rushing maniacally round a warehouse cramming STUFF into trolley… from widescreen teles and ‘home cinemas’ to mole-traps and bath plugs… and I thought it isn’t ‘expenses gate’ or ‘the troughalypse’ it is:
ARGOSGATE… or even ARGOSMAGEDDON
An Argos chandelier? How common.
Exactly… whatever it is, its all STUFF… and amazingly naff to do it…
(Where naff means disgustingly, avariciously, grabbingly cringeworthy.)
Surely that should be John-Lewisgate,MP’s mixing with the unwashed in Argos you must have been dreaming
Nah… No matter… Its still the same stuff-worship… I could have put Kays Catalogue… Fill your second home up with it quick or you will lose this year’s readies. Its a new cargo cult… Bigfellah Fees Office he bring MP-annual-Entitlement goods.
The runners and riders are now lining up.
WHO will replace him ?
Vince Cable ? Frank Field ? Norman Baker ? Ming Campbell ?
And what of the Tories ?
There must be a good few names for people to shove out there ?
Let the rampant speculation begin!
Frank Field.
The only untarnished man who is held in regard across party.
Second that
Maybe the NEC meeting will be the backbreaker, Labour grass roots may have told Brown to call an election immediately or they will sack him.
This may be the last stand from both of them.
Good riddance to such awful rubbish. (But no doubt he will have a sizable wad in his back pocket to ease the pain)….
Lets all hope he has a very very short and unhappy retirement.
The new Speaker will be none other that Gordon Brown – only a joke, but i imagine the thought has gone through his Jock head
No the new speaker will have to be a fat Matron type to keep order in that house. The little ENGERLANDERS do like a jolly good whipping, it’s the only way they can get it up.
Ooh Matron!
Aye ye were richt laddie, they’ve started to wet themselves about Anne Widdlecome. By God she will keep the bed wetters and masturbators in order, there will need to be flunkies on hand with mops and buckets to wipe up the jism when she shouts ” Order order,” what a spectacle that will be. Ooh Matron indeed.
You wee Engerlanders are so fucking predictable. No wonder you could never defeat the Scots, you were to busy wanking.
We Scots have infiltrated your most hallowed turf in Westminster and shat all over it, your Parliament is the laughing stock of the world. Now fuck of and let the French and the Romans hump you again.
Has anyone checked his ‘retirement’ package…
Hang on a minute, lads…
How has this story been leaked/released?
Has it come from No. 10, rather than the Speaker’s office?
Does Martin know that he is being resigned?
I need to own up here.
Pointless distraction & sideshow.
More bread & circuses to keep the masses appeased.
It is not enough.
Dissolve Parliament.
Call a General Election with the troughers from all party’s excluded.
Can I be speaker? I need the work.
come to think of it if anyone else needs a bar man or a aerospace & defence analyst I’m always available (Grace and Favour flat is not required)
Can you talk ?
Or read ?
Yes ?
“Sorry – we are pleased to tell you after carefull consideration there are candidates far less qualified than yourself……”
What about Master Baiter or Thick as Thieves? They tick all the boxes.
The creep must not be given a peerage or a pay-off. Let him whatever pension he’s entitled to as an MP – we’re not vindictive. Oh, and that’s only to be paid after he’s completed his jail sentence.
He should be charged for his food and accommodation if he is sent to jail, as well as for the costs of putting him there. Anything he can’t pay should be charged to Brown and then to the Labour party.
Guido says:
“He presided over a period which saw parliament develop a culture of corruption”.
This is total bollocks!
MPs have been fiddling expenses on a far greater and much less transparent scale since the 1980s.
It’s just they’ve been caught on under his watch, primarily as a result of the Labour party’s opening up of Government and Parliament with their FoI legislation.
Previously it was mentioned by journalists, and the old timers will know all about this, but obviously there was never any hard evidence other than the anecdotal.
Expenses were always considered as a top-up to salary and everyone accepted this. That’s why the claims look so reckless when opened up to public scrutiny. No one thought they ever would be.
On a side note, only pigshit thick Ingerlish Hoons call it Glasgae. Just so’s you know, that makes you a pigshit thick Ingerlish Hoon, you pigshit thick Ingerlish Hoon. And by the way, you pigshit thick Ingerlish Hoons, if you think about sending back that pigshit thick Scots Hoon we’re not having him back without plunging you further into ruination.
Thanks
Fraid I’m just a pigshit thick Irish hoon.
And anyway, isn’t it pigshit thick *nglish hoon?
Just another smoke-screen
It was certainly in smoke-filled rooms, far from public view.
Expenses as additional salary has been known about for years, and despite the claims of these Tory reformers, it has been the Labour party which has shone light into those dark corners of government and parliament.
Can I stay now?
Nope.
It is not the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. …
Haven’t read much about the earlier-than-usual (rushed) destruction of claims for the 2001-5 parliament that happened before the final judicial decision.
What was hidden there – did anyone hang onto copies – who voted for it – are HMRC going back far enough on these cutpurses and ne’erdowells?
The Tory thieves have so much more style than the Labour thieves. They are like David Niven or Roger Moore in white tie and opera cloak, climbing over the rooftops on a quest for the Star of Westminster diamond. The Labour thieves are just Ray Winstone with a kneecapping-stick. Anyway, good riddance to the old buffoon.
Will Speaker Martin now enjoy a six week Ugly Rumours Farewell Tour like his nasty mentor, the Smirking Chancer – Mr T Blair, President Elect of the EUSSR?
I keep saying it and I will keep on saying it. Get to the core truth of Blair and what has transpired recently will seem like a teddy bears picnic.
Investigative journalists, Guido, Dale, Martin etc……there is much to be uncovered in the tainted life of the Smirking Chancer. He may have slipped away to fill his boots before the shit hit but lurking in his past there are some untold stories that will finally consign the ZanuLabour-Nude Labour project and it’s destruction of our way of life – to the dustbin of history.
We must prevent the Smirking Chancer from ever holding office again. He is the architect of the collapse of meaningful democracy and the instigator of a specious authoritarianism that chills the bones.
Attack dogs, go get him.
Spot on Reaper, as usual
If Tony and Cherie ever become King & Queen of Europe – we are all done for
A small start.
Investigate the shredding of his expenses receipts. Blair’s wife saw the danger of these incriminating illustrations of troughing and told him to do the necessary a la MacCartney except in this case to destroy the evidence.
Come on Sunday Times here is your chance to wrest the initiative from Telegraph.
Where to begin……?
It seems to me that the new Parliament should commission a full enquiry – not by some old fart establishment addicted judge – to investigate evrything that was done by government since the early 90s. Perhaps the Met should be funded to do it?
Just send Tony and Big Gob to my pastures. I’ll sort them. Get orf my land!
How about Frank Field?
That’ll be £1 million squid please
Get to the core truth of the smirking chancer? Reaper, I would die happy.
The Speaker will stand down before the summer recess….hmm ok i think we know now when the GE is, its coming over the summer.
I am as horrified as most people about this wave of filth
But I believe that the legal situation is now becoming clearer.
I believe that the Legislation against ORGANISED CRIME shoulde now be used against what is obivously an oreganisation (The Labour Party) which crilminally conspired to steal, embezzle and fraud (and probably threaten as well). This is the behaviour of organised criminal groups such as gangs and the Italian and Russian Mafias.
It is not very difficult to see how the Labour Party works :
You have the different levels of organisation :
The Boss in Downing Street surrounded by enforcers and criminal smearers
We all know who they are/were
Then you have the Labour Party Whips Office. They call themselves “Enforcers” which is a term used by the Mafia. We now know they were frading the taxpayer of millions.
Ordinary Labour MPs – known in Mafia manguage as “soldiers” Wz now know what they were doing.
AND YOU THINK THEY WERE ACTING INDIVIDUALLY WITHOUT CONSPIRING TOGETHER.
Conspiracy is the other element that has to be proved to establish that AN ORGANISED CRIMINAL GROUP IS OPERATING. And the intent to defradu (and more) is already established, BECAUSE HUNDREDS OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE DEFRAUDED THE TAXPAYER.(like the Italian Mafia does every day with public works contracts etc) (And we do not yet know how many British Government contracts have been awarded illegally – so far – but there are grounds that the “Public Relations” firms under New Labour have been “organising” contracts, favours etc FOR CASH.
So there we have it. Clear evidence of the LABOUR PARTY BREACHING THE ORGANISED CRIME ACTS.
This is all very sad and very nasty.
There is the cle as they call themselves
If you want to get a campaign going CL – I will send you as big a cheque as I can afford. It is not that they are Labour, or their policies, it is that I think they are evil criminals and should go to prison – especially Blair. The day he is convicted will see me very happily pissed as a cricket dancing in the streets sans culotte!
All the PFI crooks and bankers and consultants and defence suppliers and others who got favouirable contracts should also be investigated.
Here’s their website. Handy to have them all listed on one page.
http://www.pppforum.com/members.asp
Just Martin going won’t make much difference. Have a read of Richard’s post at EU Referendum who points out the real decay.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/05/institutional-decay.html
Hopefully we can turn our attention to the little shit
Who?
Do you mean Blair? If so, agree in full.
wot r u lot talkin about
r u happy now that this workin class bloke has bin kicked out
that’s what its all about innit you just want one of your eton boys in the speakers chair
u lot r ridiculous
the mp i work for said u lot wud never be satisfied
how about we get an ethnic minority speaker for once, to represent the country more equally
u’d hate that wouldn’t u
We’ve got an ethnic minority speaker at the moment. Look where it’s got us.
With a speech impediment and learning difficulties. His is a wonderful example of the positive outcomes of diversity awareness and policy.
If I had my way, he would not have a leg to stand on either. Then he could spend his retirement just bumming around.
Learn to write and f**k off
Preferably a gay ethnic speaker with a disability, a woman of course.
Bored because your copy of Viz not arrived on time? Or perhaps you’ve run out of friends to send txt msg’s to?
Not if she was pretty and with big tits
Not if she’s got big tits
Not if she has got
pretty big tits.
Idiot troll.
Martin to step down “in weeks”
Martin will announce that he will step down at the next election.
Brown will announce a general election at 5.30 this afternoon.
exactly my thoughts, its all positioning, therefore Martin gets his payoff, if he continues until the GE.
The way the public finances are going and the mythical growth projections from
the chanceller there will have to be a devastating emergency budget soon which
will kill the party in power.
An election in July makes sence to save Labout from beng destroyed as the polls.
i don’t think they do elections in July.
May, June, October and November are the usual times.
We have missed the first two. Thursday 1/10/09 anyone?
TOTAL PIGSWILL BILL 2 TRILLION POUNDS – THAT IS 2 TRILLION
NOW FORCE AN ELECTION GUIDO – THE BASTARDS ARE OUT OF TIME
I wish to offer my wholehearted undying support to Mucky Mick as Speaker of the House. I urge him not to resign.
I amextremely available to serve as Speaker, if there is a vacancy.
May I remind Guido to be a good Ukipper and not piss on my chances of landing this sin-nycure , and I will call off Farter Fuck.
HOW TO PROSECUTE YOUR MP………………………….
Any Voter can make an OFFICIAL complaint against an MP at the local Police Station The Police are OBLIGED to act on this and you will be issued with a Crime Report Number.
Any MP can be charged under the ‘2006 FRAUD ACT’ sections 2,3.& 4.
2) Alternately, any Voter can take out a Private Prosecution against any MP on similar grounds.
If you are unemployed,a pensioner, or on a low income, apply for Free Legal Aid.
There shouldn’t be any problem.
Remember to take some Evidence. Plod likes Evidence.
They spend many happy hours making it.
MPs speak with forked tongues.
To a last man they say Michael Martin is a good man.
Lying C U N T S the lot of them.
Could Brown be next?
Everybody in this country has been “fiddling” since expenses were first “invented”. Parliament and all its hangers on have done it for ever. Journalists are the best – but probably past their peak. I certainly managed to pull in a few thousand when I was in the business – still get the odd bob or two. The truth of it all is that this country is paying TOO MUCH for most senior jobs – particularly in the finance racket. Now watch Martin toddle off to the Lords and fiddle some more with a golden kick up the arse.
Didn’t the little creep cynically become a Catholic to win the support of Catholic countries in Europe in his bid to become Monarch of Europe. Then he could modernise Catholicism into his own image.
Do you mean Mekon Blair?
I think we all would be thrilled to see his downfall.
When we cut him down from the gibbet!
Welcome to “Britain’s Getting a New Speaker” and on tonight’s show we’ve got a LibDem MP from Winchester who likes to…
Nooooooooooo not Ant n Dec, It’s gotta b Andrew Lloyd Webber and his Order Order song.
Did not Speaker Martin conspire for many years with the Managers of the Fees Office who reported to him to defraud the taxpayer ?
These are grounds alone (and God knows how much else there is to charge him with) for charging him and the Managers of the Fees Office with theft, fraud and embezzlement.
This is serious stuff Guido…
Luton labour party standing by dry rot MP. Hopefully the voters will know what to do at election time
oh well good, she’s ut on her ass then, thats like political suicide.
Sir Stuart Bell was ’surprised’ by the announcement (just now on BBC News).
If Martin was considering resignation, why didn’t he mention it to his biggest cheerleader?
Very, very curious…
No sighn of toenails on bbc, or have I been lucky and missed him.
Bell end seems to make a habit of calling it wrong. Including his apparent estimate of the extent of public anger.
Kevin Baron, another significant Martin supporter didn’t know beforehand either.
Dust your toolbox off Mick,and apply for JSA,”champion of the working man” my arse,the only thing he ever worked was his own corner.
Will the labour party ever de-select fat Nick Brown? I won’t hold my breath.
The only way to get Martin to keep his gob shut over what he knows about GB and his lot is to let him carry on until the election and keep his golden pension pots. But Martin wants out now so has forced GB into an election he didn’t want.
Both pathetic individuals.
Those dozy MPs think that if they sacrifice the trougher-in-chief that we’ll let em off the hook.
Here’s hoping that doesn’t work and this is only the beginning! Pass me another barrel of gunpowder Guido!
I bet Nick Browne is breathing a sigh of relief…The press are now concentrating on Mr speaker instead of the corrupt enforcer.
Hanging is too good for the fat greedy corrupt bastard.
A pox on him and all his ilk.
No reward for failure !
[...] Speaker to resign this afternoon Guido Fawkes [...]
So who would the electorate like to see as the next Speaker?
I’d like to see Ann Widdecombe in the chair. She’s a real battle-axe and would scare those wimpy MPs into behaving decently. Moreover she is not implicated in the expenses scandal – she is one of the lowest claimers in the House.
I bet Tony Blair is pi$$ing himself.
“Cherie my darling bunnikins, I feel you may have a nice little money spinner coming up. Mr Martin has been unfairly dismissed and his human rights have been infringed”
Cue mirror shattering smile from said munter.
“Oh Tony, we can add my fees to our £16 million property portfolio!. I always knew you were more than just a love machine, a money machine to boot”
Must be like the B’stard household lol
Could someone please hit me a good slap on the gob and even up my mouth.
I’m a big cheese in media now, happened suddenly, and I don’t want to look this stupid all the time.
Help with the scary stary eyes and pompous prat phrasing welcome too.
Lord Martin of Greedy Gorbals?
The Leper of Politics?
He is a greedy little shameless bastard who wants his compensation payment and his job in the Lords. Storm the building if we must and drag him out by his chubby little ankles. He is a complete and utter twat of a man and all those conniving to excuse him do themselves no favours with the electorate. He is not the only immediate disgrace but he is the most visible. His whinning little mutterings and verbal dyslexia are beyond belief.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse; now they talking about me as Speaker.
You better be nice to me now you sneering Tory gits, else you’ll be bobbing up and down on your seats for the next twenty years without ever opening your gobs!
I’ll vote for that!!
Given the extent of the scandal and some of the legal implications, all of the traditional entitlements should be immediately suspended.
No peerages, no payoffs etc. until this is sorted out.
The HoL is just another trough which is even less scrutinised.
No idea what his payoff is, and I doubt we’ll ever know unless we submit an FOI request.
ALL journos when interviewing should ask this and mention FOI, only that way will we know the truth.
And any MP caught knowingly telling porkies should be disciplined for deceiving the public.
Iraq war & all that stuff? It’s a f***ing disgrace.
What’s his payoff?
Douglas Hogg to stand down at GE, Cameron clearing the decks.
another one down.
you never know, Viscount Mick could be going to the Lords to help bring in reform there now his work`s done in the House of Troughers
O/T sky are reporting that Hogg if retiring, presumably to spend more time with his moat?
In it would be preferable.
Why cant we deprive the Hoon of his pension?
Then flog the puce face twat through the streets to be hung drawn and quatered along with all the others.
Excellent idea!
Can we trust this den of theives to elect a new speaker?
Evil Fucker is about to get his 15 minutes of fame!
Nasty, demented, superannuated, sleazebag.
Hope he takes his bum chum with him?
Would it be too much to ask to get a speaker who can string a few words (never mind sentences) together. No more illiterate scumbags from the scabby parts of Glasgow!
Good riddance to the stupid, incompetent, corrupt, tribalist, arrogant, purple-nosed Glaswegian shithead. Word is that he’s a right nasty piece of work and might stitch-up McMental in revenge for this humiliation.
He typifies everything that’s brought this country to its knees over the last twelve years.
This is a great day for democracy. It would be better if the disgusting old turd were tarred and feathered and run out of town on a hurdle, but you can’t have everything.
In the interests of political correctness the new speaker has to be a black, female, one legged lesbian with no Christian beliefs.
Harridan Harman will adjust the voting papers to ensure that there is no discrimination against minorities.
Just give the job to Dawn Butler.
Sky say his constituency activists have been told to prepare for a summer by-election. In their position I’d treat it as a GE because the throttle is stuck open on this oil tanker….
So is it time for Brown to be impeached, too?
He shouldn’t have the luxury of resignation! And nor should Brown.
THOSE SUKKERS IN PARLIAMENT DU KNOT KNOW A GOOD THING WHEN THEY SEE IT
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WUN THAT CAN STAY THE DISTANCE,
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ON THEIR WAY TO THE TOWER OF LUN DUN
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Nurse! More sedatives!
What was he offered as a pay off to get rid of him?
Well he’ll get the £60k when he stands down as an MP. That’s the £60k that he insisted all MPs should still get even is they retire or choose not to stand again. I’m seeking a ruling from the Court of Public Opinion on whether this represents a reward for failure, but the Clerk to the Court, a Ms Harman, appears to be unavailable for comment.
Sorces say that the court’s doctrine of No Reward for Failure is about to be changed to No Reward for Failure (Except for Us).
V for Victory! Thanks god he’s gone.
Now hopefully the police will be put to some proper use and will get involved by handing out some real justice to the MPs that abused the expenses system with their greedy snouts, while so many are going without (almost 13,000 home repossessions in the last three months while those homeless people were paying for MPs mortgages and plasma TV’s. How tragically ironic). I hope justice will truly be done soon.
If only the Nuliebour fuckwits would follow each other like lemmings and jump off the Commons Terrace into the fucking Thames.
…wearing concrete boots.
Daydreaming again… But its gonna happen… Frank Field is chosen as speaker and, Savonarola-like, his first action is to instigate an enormous Bonfire of the Vanities in Parliament Square…
Gove brings his posh furniture, Malik his two flat screen teles, Prescott his loo seats, Gummer his superior mole traps, Duncan his ride-on lawnmower, Vaz his silk cushions, Alexander his storm windows, Beckett her hanging baskets, and Salmond crates and crates of mini-bar contets (non-alcoholic natch) …
Burn baby burn…
And thus purified the hang-dog punters re-enter the Chamber…
Brenda is reportedly watching the while from the windows of the spring-cleaned Speaker’s apartments.
Taxi for Martin!
Blank receipt, sir?
His place in history is assured
I ‘ve just taken out a bet at the bookies that the MONSTER RAVING LOONEY PARTY will take more votes than labour in at least two constituencies.at the next Election…Good odds too.
“He presided over a period which saw parliament develop a culture of corruption.”
I know you’re upset but that’s just a silly thing to say. It was corrupt when your own chromosomes were still swanning around in two different people’s bodies.
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Hillarous satirical site – a good spoof of the “Make Poverty History” video on his front page now. http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog
Great link!
Thanks
Nick Robinson says on his blog: “Others will insist that this Glaswegian sheet metal worker was the victim of class-based prejudice and snobbery.
There is some truth in both those charges.”
I suggest all readers complain to the BBC, as they’re obviously trying to use a “tory toff” campaign; they know that labour themselves can’t use the “tory toff” campaign because they’d be punished for it in the press, so they’re doing it themselves so they can shield labour from the fall out of such a campaign while still managing to secure labour the inverted-snobbery vote.
Robinson’s statement has to be amongst the most disgusting comments that a “journalist” at the BBC has ever made.
Notice how Labour stand up for Smith, Gould, and Benn because they are all female and English from posh backgrounds but they throw Gorbals Mick to the Wolves to save themselves.
It is classist and sexist!
Shameless cant.
Hang on, I think I misspelt that…
Robinson is a complete tit.
I hate the BBC.
Is he gay?
I remember when he got the job they showed him being dragged to the chair ( as tradition dictates ) – can someone find this footage and put it on youtube in reverse ?
Now the MPs’ have been revealed,how about the judiciary?
The Law Lords who have failed to enforce laws on
those who deserve it whilst penalizing the honest
citizens!
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3850658.ece
In effectual Judges who often rely on dubious testimony
from social workers and undermine society in the process by
releasing criminals too soon!
Barristers and Solicitors who agitate matters for their own gain
rather then serving justice,being content to plunder the legal aid
purse when ever possible!
The legal system in this country was once the envy of the world,
as with Parliament now the butt of all jokes and society is
paying the price!
God, what a superb record for the Labour party…
In ten years -
The two worst Chancellors of the Exchequer in living memory
The two worst Prime Ministers in living memory
An economy systematically dismantled
A pension system destroyed
Two illegal wars
A country on its knees under a mountain of debt
A Parliament corrupted and held in contempt
Some legacy!!
Education, education, education.
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
24 hours to save the NHS.
I’m a pretty straight kinda guy.
Whiter than white.
45 minutes WMDs.
etc
Tra laa!
And no chance of Legal Aid for anyone who has lived here for more than a few months.
Things can only get better!!!!!!
That was the promise at inception, and it will be a true as true when the end comes! New Labour delivers!
He was taken to the Speaker’s chair by the hand and pushed by MPs as tradition dictates.
But he should be taken from the chair with kicks and slaps as his reign dictates.
NEXT TO GO SHOULD BE …stewart bell …and frank dobson…..douglas hog has gone…along with the rest of the dinosaurs
I wouldn`t even p*ss on the communist if he was on fire, typical socialist scum.
I see ZaNu-Labour are now trying to re-wright history with the “Sheet metal worker” “Union Man” rising from his humble up-bringing, then again Socialists always re-write history.
The man is nothing more than a greedy bully and has brought shame on the House presiding over 12yrs of pure corruption.
Send him back to Scotland with the rest of them, preferably hung drawn and quarted.
Put him on the back of a lorry for his journey back to Scotland and whip him in every English parish he passes through.
Nah it’s OK you inbred wankers can keep him he fits in so well doon there.
Nah you keep him he fits in so well with you inbred wanks
I’m surprised that the blogosphere isfalling for this whole ‘let’s get the speaker’ thing that the Tories and Lib Dems are clinging to in order to look like they are taking action. This is pure spin designed to take the headlines away from the culpability of individual MPs/minister/front benchers.
Lobby journalists I can forgive for gobbling up this crap; but really it’s such a massive red herring. Changing the speaker will change nothing – deckchairs on the titanic.
Hope we get a guarantee of a by-election – would be a disgrace if he stayed as an MP when he won his seat virtually unopposed.
was that it!!!!
What a shitter !
Petulant tosser!
Short and sweet! – so 21st June it is!
5 more weeks of the cnut in the meantime though :-(
Shredders will be working overtime. Innocent mistakes will be made. “Oh dear. I seem to have lost all receipts from Nuts & Crapper, Brownarse and Darling.”
Here’s an idea for a new Endemol show for Channel 4. Presented by Ross Kemp; Michael Martin, the entire cabinet and the ‘bagpipe in chief’ are taken by armed guard to a secret location to meet with Bear Grylls for a week long crash course in basic survival techniques.
The following week they are all dressed in Union Jack boiler suits (with phone numbers on the back), armed with a butter knife each, given basic army rations and air dropped into Afganistan.
Viewers will be encouraged to text bet on whether they reach specific checkpoints over a 4 week period. These will eventually lead to a military transport aircraft on standby.
As an added twist the producers will have dyed the hair of all participants ‘Hazel Blears’ orange and surgically sown a harmonica on to Geoff Hoons face so that every time he breaths, a chirpy skiffle chord bursts forth potentially blowing what limited cover the group ends up finding.
Any honourable member that finds the aircraft will win a week’s stay in a Novatel with £100 spending money, a lifelong parliamentary ban, a criminal record and an ice cream van.
They’d probably call it ‘How Hard Is Your Member?’ or something.
I’d chew my own ball sack off to see that.
LMAO – YOU are hired.
:) It needs one of those diary room thingies…………
You are Roger Melly and I claim my £5.
Sky now sugesting Ann Widdecombe (!) as a potential interim Speaker from June until the GE – should be only a month or two then, fingers crossed!
Michael Martin only said that he would be relinquishing the Speakership and his statement was VERY specific – he never mentioned standing down as a MP.Whilst there is a convention that the Speaker also stands down as MP there is no requirement to do so.There is nothing to stop him going to the backbenches,not turning up in Parliament,until the next election.We await clarification although the BBC has already started campaigning
Here’s another thought – Labour spokesman in Martin’s Glasgow Constituency cannot confirm if Martin is standing down immediately as their MP but are preparing to fight a by- election in September and prospective candidates have been told to put their names forward for selection
I see the Count Bananaman is talking about paying ‘tributes’ at a later date.
Any ideas for suitable tributes anyone?
Born – failed – died.
There is a God.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/18/glasgow-looking-to-freeze-in-the-dark/
It’s hidden away in the back pages of the bbc and not being properly reported, but apparently the Met have just issued a statement saying that they’re refusing to investigate the leak because doing so would be against the public interest, but that they are investigating the MPs for fraud.
Looks like Martin’s diversion tactic backfired a bit then.
He has not got the integrity to stand down.
I bet he has been promised a peerage.
He was at the centre of what amounts to a criminal conspiracy which committed widespread financial fraud and he should be prosecuted for it.
While they’re listening, could we make it clear to our masters (for the time being) that there might be a wee bit of disapproval, not to mention a bloody revolution, if Mr Martin becomes Lord Martin.
This government always has to have a scape goat-I don’t think he held a gun to any of the mp’s heads when they filled in their expenses claims!
@ 443
Maybe you’re right – but he set the examples and controlled the Fees Office, who were entirely complicit. Even if he didn’t have a clue as to what those bastards were up to, they were his staff and his choice of personnel. Sometimes you have to take responsibility for the actions of your subordinates – although I know that kind of thinking is anathema to these disgusting scumbags.
At last a bit of good news.
However, we must not allow the Government to use him as a sacrificial lamb in a vain attempt to deflect their ineptitude from the public gaze.
As far as I’m concerned, this is only the beginning so let’s keep them coming!
Martin’s conduct throughout this whole sorry saga culminating in that shambolic performance yesterday, and his mealy mouthed “resignation” speech today was only eclipsed by the numpties who stood and clapped him as he entered the Commons today! Ye gods what a stinking pit of excrement the Mother of Parliaments has become.
Don’t you mean Mutha of Parliaments?
It looks like Labour MP, Michael Connarty, is guilty of out and out fraud.
According to (part of) the Telegraph article:
‘He also submitted a £1124.00 claim for a bed and accessories bought from a Glasgow branch of a different bed store. The receipt shows it was delivered to M Connarty at an address in Glasgow.’
Would this this M Connarty be his son Michael, perhaps? Was he also furnishing his son’s home at our expense?
Certainly not in line with the rules, regardless of who it was for.
Junius says
You cannot be serious ! Dignity of a Peerage ?! Martin was made for this
unreformed, labour home for the discarded. But think what it actually means -
to be ejected as unacceptable in this institutionally corrupt House of Commons
yet good enough for labour’s second home . What does this say for the
House of Lords ?- and when will its true state be revealed to the Public ?
It’ll either be the house of lords or europe.
I thought a massive promotion to an unelected europe troughing job was the going thing for disgraced or fraudulent MPs to get these days?
The BBC is busy telling everyone that the only reason he left was because he was chased out by all the nasty toffs, and that he’s an innocent victim of class prejudice and snobbery.
Methinks the BBC has reached the same desperate stage as labour; they know they’re going to be totally fucked in 2010 so they’re being openly blatant in spinning as many lies as they can to try and limit the tories’ power in 2010 (and out of sheer spite)
Scorched earth policies are rife throughout labour and the BBC at the moment; neither of them have anything to lose as they’re so fucked anyway, so it’s all-out war and as much spite/damage as they can achieve to their opponents at the moment as far as they’re concerned.
Th’louse of hordes?
Right, who shall I pick next?
Ah, I know!
Bugger off you big Scotch pig
I’m in shock – I’d always assumed that The Speakers bumbling, hesitant speech was because he liked a wee dram or two for Dutch courage. I have read in today’s Times that he forswore the demon drink as a young man, so his incompetence was all his own doing.
Thank goodness he’s gone!
The House is at it’s best when it’s united.
So why did he go….the House was never so united in the last few days with him there!
So they get rid of one greedy trougher, promise a bit of reform and we are supposed to be happy about that?
DREAM ON TROUGHERS!
We all know that when you close one avenue of fraud another soon opens up.
So the expenses scam is closed, what takes it’s place?
Even more BROWN ENVELOPES, that’s what.
Kick everyone of these troughers out and vote for ANY independent candidate that does not represent the organised crime gangs of the major parties.
Death to all troughers!
Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Campbell, “Lord Cashpoint” Levy, “Hooligan” Hoon, Speaker Martin…. the list just goes on and on.
The few decent ones are mostly long gone (Mo Mowlam, Robin Cook, Clare Short and Betty Boothroyd spring to mind) or are simply ignored by their colleagues (Frank Field for example).
How far the rest have fallen since the days when they offered such promise. I used to be a Labour voter and I never ever expected to be so keen to see them on their sorry way. Well done Blair and Brown, there must be literally millions like me who are now voting Conservative thanks to your greedy, shallow, morally and intellectually bankrupt policies and personal ethics.
Harriet Harman’s tribute describes it thus “Michael Martin’s resignation today as Speaker is an act of great generosity to the House of Commons that Members of Parliament from all parties will respect.”
Erm… On what particular planet would it be “an act of generosity”???
£138K per year plus a grace and favour house and he still claims a massive wedge for a second home allowance on top??
It completely buggers belief!!!
order mick a taxi back to glasgow on the house.. what we can’t do that any more shit
I wonder who pays for the BBC, looks like nick Robinson is paying for load of moderators…50% of comments are being referred to the moderator…maybe McBride found a new job..
“Speaker Steps Down”
Don’t want this fucker ’stepping down’. I want him stepping up to the gallows. BTW, Glasgow East used to have an area known as ‘Gallows Gate’ in it
Sad sight to see a noble speaker flung to the wolves to save the skins of the venial MPs who put him there.
good to see i still have one voter left, deluded as they are sorry did i say deluded i ment commendable now what does that old queen want now for me to call an election
have to chat to hazell before she gets in the guardian
Fuck you so called Robspierre
Does no one recall the convention which never elected a speaker of the ruling party?
The dirty traitor Heath (spit) and the senile Ming put him there. One word from Blair would have deied him the job. (You want a legacy Blair? there he is he was forced to resign…)
Mr Speaker should go but he is also a scapegoat – the MPs are all now saying the rules were wrong. Too fucking late after they have enjoyed the expenses claims…why were they perfectly right until found out? What a load of double dealing insincere fiddling lot they are, especially the Tory toffs who though they have millions dared to fleece the taxpayer, not that that in any way condones the labour lot…. all the named and shamed should be deselected without any arguments..just GO!
For every MP that goes/gets voted out THEY EACH get a £42,000 pay off. It would take me over 5 years to earn that B4 tax. These bastards must NOT have our hard earned taxes. This is the next scandal that needs exposing. They need only one thing: a lamp post, so we can see their corpses swinging in the wind.
QUERY:
Just what planet do you fruitcakes hail from – Planet Loony perhaps? You rejoice in the fact that Martin is going – WHY? The Speaker is supposed to represent the House of Commons. Can any of you (with a straight face please) tell me who you do think better represents ‘Cesspit Central’ than that jobby Martin? And once he’s gone you’ll get all the crocodile tears and treacley praise from those who threw him to the lions to save their own skins followed by a seat in the Lords. You really think this is a desirable outcome?
NO!
A speaker was once held in his chair – lets chain this bastard to it, better still NAIL him to it – he can then go down with the ship he helped to sink!
And best wishes to all on Planet Loony.