Labour backbenchers are pushing the candidature of Tory MP John Bercow for speaker. Wonder why? We have just got rid of one trougher, we don’t need another trougher as Speaker. Year after year John Bercow has maxed out his expenses…
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Sarah Palin said…
“A year later, I gotta ask the supporters of all that, ‘How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’ “
-Gilts (Mar)
As of 28 Jan 2010 +5.8%
Because he’ll be useless?
Because he’s a Leftie!
Incisive stuff from Commons watcher, Paul Waugh
http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/it-looked-like-wake.html
Say no to troughers!
Have a go at my Michael Martin Caption Competition.
I am going to miss him, so many laughs.
And these lefties have secured the removal of serious powers from democratic oversight. Instead of getting them to DO THEIR JOBS PROPERLY, they have actually abdicated a serious level of power away from the Crown and given that power to the third sector! THIS IS A COUP BY STEALTH!
We demanded an election and THEY have given us more of a coup, by stealth by removing MORE of OUR elected representatives power into the third sector!
This is EVEN WORSE than the status quo!!! THEY DO NOT FUCKING GET IT!!!
See how your MP compares with others.
MP expenses heat map by constituency
My vote for speaker would be Frank Field, but he might be too honest and outspoken for the job
Labour MPs don’t like him he is too outspoken and at odds with the party leadership. These would be sound reasons for backing him. It would shut him up.
Same applies to Chris Mullin. Perhaps, as she has no desire to be the leader of her party, Harriet the Harperson might put her name forward.
These MPs have got to understand that we wont tolerate these troughers any more. The next speaker has got to be whiter than white(that will go down like a lead baloon with the PC brigade) and as that will probably be impossible the nearest off whiter. We are their masters and these bastards had better get used to it
He must be stopped!
http://www.torybear.com/2009/05/have-you-seen-this-man_19.html
careful, that description was patented by the current lot in ‘97
Can someone explain WHY we need a speaker?
We need less politicians, not more.
The House of Commons would descend into barbaric chaos without a Speaker.
Oh, right…
Yeah, and no more bloody foreigners, either. Bercow sounds Polish.
HA HA
If you think that, then you are going to be in for an even bigger shock in the future.
The plane facts, are the plane facts. MP’s don’t work for US, and never have done. They work for THEM, when not obviously working for their own greedy self interests. Very much in exactly the same way as WE ALL SHOULD, if we had any sense.
The difference is we are paying ever more taxes, fines, and charges to pay for it all. We are still skint, and becoming more so everyday. Their tax free bank balances and pension funds are forever more in the black, while our lives fall deeper into the red.
This issue will go down in history as, not the end, but certainly the beginning of the end for British parliamentary democracy.
This will not kill the beast, it is just a few deep cuts to the buttocks and legs. The killer blows will come later, once the plebs party has finally been got rid of, and a pro-European super state Lib/Lab type party, has been established.
Cameron’s premiership will make the Thatcher years look relatively unEVENTful.
EVENTS DEAR BOY, EVENTS. IMO Cameron’s premiership is planned to last no more then two years. This country is now at the political as well as the financial mercy of The NWO’s European Socialist Soviet Republic.
no, because he’s a corrupt bastard!
Keith Vaz ought to do just fine then.
Provided he first got a Vazectomy.
Give the hoon some vagicream.
So the Fat Controller has resigned and is being offered a peerage. Which says everything about the One Eyed Stiff One’s judgement. After all, Bruin was going to offer the appalling Fiona Phillips of GMTV a Baroness.
The Fat Controller will now join ranks with other dreadful members of the bastardised Blairite Lords – Baroness Uddin, the four disgraced Labour peers, the nasty LibDem Baroness Tonge and the hugely Labourite awful Baroness Uddin and best of all, the insect like Baron Handlebum.
They always get a peerage. Its a tradition. Like honesty used to be.
The Queen needs to make Heather Brooke a Countess. She would then out rank the fat controller. Just to see his face when Countess Heather looked him in the eye and said I will be watching you and your expences would bring the house down.
The case in numbers?
How about because he’s a 5ft 1 inch self-publicist of no discernable talent?
To be fair to Bercow, if he has maxed out his ACA like everyone else, he has been consistent in claiming the same amount year on year, and his overall ranking has fallen from 59th in 2001/02, to 631st in 07/08, which just goes to show how much the rest have outstripped him in putting their noses in the trough.
How clean is Ann Widdecombe ?
Try to think pure thoughts as you consider the question.
She’s standing down isn’t she?
She’s being touted as a short-term candidate, allowing the next Parliament to pick their own man/woman/transgender-type-thingy.
Heard the question put to her just now, she said first she’s heard of it and there’s a month for serious candidates to emerge. DIDN’T SAY NO !!
However, I believe she’s voted for privacy (sorry, secrecy) all along.
Madame Screech would be a one woman disaster for the Tories – she wouldn’t play well with the voters. George Younger would be a much better (and more laid back) speaker – an ideal interim candidate until the election comes.
Hows about Anne Main MP? A tigress. Sadly, I can’t vote for her in the GE ‘cos I’ll be voting for another Party.
I’ve changed my mind. ‘Just looked at Her Expenses.
She voted for the FOI amendment last year so she is tainted with that, besides she said no on Pravda before.
Apparantly she’s squeaky clean.
Bollocks:
http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-was-going-to-cut-my-lawn-cat.html
For starters.
Note that this isn’t dishonesty – it’s just living on the backs of the taxpayers.
Well I’m disappointed. I thought she might have been one of the few.
I dont think she is one of the few, although she looks different I believe she said in an interview that she is straight.
But her fucking voice…
Not as good as the fucking voices of the birds on Television X.
It seems he’s just the right man for the job.
You’d be hard pressed to find an MP who hasn’t ‘maxed out’ their claims.
My MP has much the same figures – still waiting for The Telegraph to get around to the un-notable back benchers….
Its really just a question of how inventive they’ve been in making their claims look dull.
Me Too – nigh identical
Easy to find…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/31/mps-expenses-jacquismith
Theres a link to a google spreadsheet of all expenses on that page.
How about that nice G Brown?
Too camp.
Yeah there’s a rumour about…
*cough*
Isn’t his wife a dedicated Labour supporter?
Not just his wife!
He’d have crossed over by now if he hadn’t seen which way the wind was blowing….
not at all.
Bercow would be disastrous for the HoC.He is, as pointed out, a trougher, lacks gravitas and the respect of the Commoms generally.The only thing against Frank Field is that he is one of the few thinking MPs and therefore valuable on the floor of the House, otherwise he would be an admirable choice
He’s a dwarf with a bad attitude. As well as being a thieving hoon.
Surely that’s why Labour is supporting him?
Anything to bring disrepute to the Tory cause – all hands t’mill!
No, no, no, no, no etc
There are ‘clean’ MP’s – the Telegraph are now publishing their names. The Speaker must be clean
i want george galloway….payback time
He would certainly need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the chair, given his attendance record at the House of Commons…
clartmonkeyboy,
we are just slinging out all the thieves and the last thing we need right now are lying c’unts like you spraying your garbage smears around.
you happen to be talking about one of the few honourable members of parliament to attend parliament on a daily basis. and whose expenses claims are not in question.
so, tell me, monkeyboy, to which political party are you affiliated?
oh and by attendance you are ofcourse deceitfully misrepresenting voting as an indicator of attendance.
you must like pissing in the wind you fucking cripple.
you must be stoned, right?
for sure.
Thick – I may call you Thick, mayn’t I? Or shall I just call you George?
You’re not a hard man. Everybody in Scotland knows that ‘ex-boxer’ stuff is all made up. The only person you ever beat in a fight was your ex-wife.
So cut the crap.
most of us call him T-w-A-T
you are new here, so I will be as kind as I can.
whatever your own views, you have not addressed my challenge that you were making a false accusation against an honourable member of Parliament.
there are too few decent mp’s for scum like you to be allowed to attempt to discredit one by making false slurs.
so do the right thing and retract your false smear or fuck off.
oh, and you have just made a right c’unt of yourself on the record: on the most popular blog in the country, so – well done!
well done cripple! gold star!
you better come up with another name now I suppose. oh well.
new girl,
I use to think you were a nice person but now I realize you are just a foul mouthed fishwife.
you must be at least 45 maybe 50 so gord only knows what the fuck you think you are doing here acting as a tory cheerleader.
you silly old tart, you’re making a right fool out of yourself.
having you got some knitting you should be doing?
ha ha fraid not TwAT. prefer goading you you tosser. you never thought i was nice you’ve always been foul to me.
that’s very funny new girl: considering I have bashed more brains out of tory and labour and lib dem trolls than you have had hot dinners, that’s funny.
you silly cripple.
raise your game new girl or fuck off.
you are becoming a bore.
and so soon!
oh go and take your medication, you weirdo.
George “browntongue” Galloway, Saddam’s bitch, media-whore, fat, irritating scottish twat whose self righteous, vain ramblings make him even more odious.
He sure earns a lot for a socialist, my guess is that he gives it all to the people and spends it on charity, surely..
Thick as thieves is a bit touchy about the Palistinian Question. But he has a brilliant solution …. <the Jews should all just leave Israel. It’s that simple. Well at least he is.
Hello NewGirl. TwAT being his usual self is he?
Yeah Brain of Britain with Tourettes. duh!
Hi Alien8n…Yeah, bless him, he’s NewGirl obsessed. What can I do?
We can’t have a Speaker who is persona non grata in Canada.
why don’t fuck off to canada if you think it’s so great you fucking imbecile.
I think you, and your boyfriend below, have some kind of obsessive disorder regarding your stalker like attacks on an honourable mp.
you lot are fucking dangerous, you are very similar to revolutionary communists in the way you seek to undermine democracy.
but, ofcourse, communism was defeated whereas hyper-capitalists like you really did blow your own brains out. you wankers. oh, and people with your type of disordered mindset took the rest of the economy down with you.
yet here you are, a spent force, spouting your negative garbage about a person who happens to be an honourable mp.
watch your tongues, traitors.
I don’t really want to bash your brains out.
but I will if I must…..
Oh, one of my zits just popped. Mummy!
Thick,you want to have a word with your dealer because I think you got some bad shit there. Please be calm, read your comic and mummy will get you your teddy and a glass of milk.
Honourable? As pointed out above Galloway was Saddam’s bitch. A man who sucks up to a mass murderer has no honour. Now fuck off and die you half-wit.
He’d turn the mike off if anyone said something he didn’t like.
gallows and infidel,
hmmm… what the fuck has donald rumsfeld selling mustard gas to saddam hussein got to do with this?
hold on… gallows and infidel you are rumsfeld and cheney and I demand my $5.
and the right to pull the lever when you two warmongering c’unts are strung up.
just like saddam.
you have set the precedent for war crimes and let’s be honest, everyone enjoys a good hanging, especially when c’unts like you are for the drop.
There’s a lot of people want him…..dead!
but nobody gives a fuck whether you’re dead or alive you c’unt!
Dear Thick, you should ask your mom not to put Smarties in you lunchbox.
Dear Thicko, I was rather hoping you’d pick on me.
You are, without doubt, the most obnoxious pile of dogshit that has ever had the audacity to appear on this blog.
You are the filling in a crap sandwich.
You are the smegma on the end of Mandelson’s cock
Now run along, you’re too young to play big boy’s games.
I can’t think of a worse candidate for the role of speaker than that buffoon George Galloway. His record in voting in the House of Commons is abysmal; the following is from Wilkipedia:
“Since the 2005 election, his participation rate has remained low, at the end of the year he had participated in only 15% of Divisions in the House of Commons since the general election, placing him 634th of 645 MPs – of the MPs below him in the rankings, one is the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, five are Sinn Féin members who have an abstentionist policy toward taking their seats, three are the speaker and deputy speakers and therefore ineligible to vote, and two have died since the election.”
He is also quoted as saying:
“If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.”
The Soviet Union was one of the worst tyranies in the history of mankind!
He has also been free with taxpayers money. As a London MP he is not able to claim Additional Cost Allowance but in 2007/08 he claimed £1978 London Suppliment; £94,004 in Staffing Costs and £10,000 (a suspiciously round figure) for Communications and £11,096 for Staff Cover.
This man is not fit to be an MP let alone the Speaker.
ah, a full congregation of cripples for me to heal.
dear cripples,
I may be a genius but I still find it puzzling that you all have such a low opinion of me yet you waste so much of your time and bile responding to my posts.
very strange.
but if you read my posts more closely and ponder upon my comments you will certainly become less cretinous and more intelligent.
note to dr mick(lesbian:1stclass) you are a child killer apologist mick and your soul is destined to burn in hell for eternity for your wicked sins of inciting and celebrating the deaths of Palestinian children.
you are a satanist dr mick and you and your fellow zionist war criminals and arms dealers are not welcome here.
I am obsessed with peace and you are obsessed with violence.
you’re probably paranoid schizophrenic mick, have you been assessed?
you get weirder and weirder TwAT. Seeing as we are all “cripples” why do you blog your septic twaddle here?
weirder and weirder?
one is either weird or one is not weird.
and you, new girl, are a right fucking weird c’unt.
you are out of your league and you are compounding your error by making your last pointless and vulgar post.
meanwhile I have been building an argument for the more intelligent reader to appreciate.
you fucking dullard new girl!
DOH!
ps you tory daleks keep questioning people’s mental health, bit of a new labour thing to do innit?
and your leader, dave cameron is well fucking dodgy.
dodgy ‘no change’ dave is less trustworthy than del boy.
dave can’t be trusted.
hung parliament please!
DON’T FEED THE TROLL
As for ‘Gorgeous George’ and ‘Honourable’ being mentioned in the same sentence – words fail me.
One of my closest friends lives in the constituency, and her verdict on the election in which GW won his seat is unprintable in polite company (or even this company)
note to samanatha: you must be a crackhead, right?
“don’t feed the trolls?”
but you ARE a troll you silly fucking bitch!
you are a tory troll.
fucking hell! where do they get dopey c’unts like you from samantha?
I am independently minded, you dullard.
try harder to keep up or fuck off to conservativefoam.
thankyou.
what a total cripple!
He’s a weasel
please work on this anagram …
berc obnoxious weasel
o’ bercow bisexual nose?
soon, bercow ‘e bisexual?
Regarding expenses MPs are not coming clean, they are just keeping their heads down hoping they will be missed.
There is a risk that anyone chosen now will be found to have skeletons in their closet.
Labourlist have started a list of clean MPs (4 so far), maybe a more general effort should be started to identify the clean ones before a new speaker is chosen.
Currently there are far too many ‘unknown’ s
Is John Bercow a Labour MP or does he just act like one?
so true.
I thought that at one time he was going to cross the floor – his wife is a devout Labour (Blairite?)
A while ago rumour had it that he was about to cross the floor. Shame he didn’t make it, cos then Buckingham could have a real Conservative MP instead of a greasy pole climbing sham.
He did join Gordon’s GOAT (Government Of All the Talents) as a specialist in something or other. Don’t know if he still is a member.
Perhaps even worse than his Leftist opinions is the fact that he is a career politician. What we need now are politicians who have been successful at something else first.
Then he realised that Brown was a fucking disaster and that if he crrossed the floor he’d probably be booted out at a General Election which he still could be so the Speaker’s Chair is an escape route.Fort God’s Sake keep him out at all costs !
If Cable wont stand it’s got to be Frank Field
His wife is a labourite
Bercow is married? Not a civil partnership, but a marriage – to a woman?
Widdecombe, no bloody chance.
She voted to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act FFS!!
What about Ken Purchase, Labour trougher for Wolverhampton? He’s been there for years, has never done a thing, and he looks exactly like Eeyore. If they elected him they could have a character from Winnie the Pooh talking poo to the poo. You know it makes sense.
We need a tory or liberal speaker. Another labour numpty just wouldn’t been acceptable. After all labour are the party who have spent 12 years trying to destroy anything good in this country and they have basically trashed the place.
How a good, solid, honest backbencher with a long record of honesty and public service like Ben Bradshaw, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, or Dawn Butler?
:shock:
Can I have a jacuzzi with my vote?
We couldn’t have Ben Bradshaw because he is a cock.
Oh please Plato
Don’t disturb my shagging
It’s so nice in the Jacuzzi..
Does lots of his things you know…
Bum Bradshaw isn’t a ‘backbencher’, unless this is a new slang term for a player of the pink oboe.
Pink oboe is so yesterday.
The phrases du jour are ‘cigar warbler’ or ‘parsnip fishing’. (from the decayed mind of Sir Bufton Tufton)
I hadnt seen about geoffrey clifton-brown before.
(What an intellectual giant he must be – Eton then an agricultural college).
Paying the interest on a £500k mortgage so he can live in a manor house.
Sorry, but next to that £2400 on a bathroom suite is bloody reasonable.
Why are you planning for a new speaker,lets get rid of this crowd of MP’s first or have you already forgotten.
Election Now.
It would take stuffing a red hot poker up Browns arse to get him to call an election.
Naah, he’d enjoy that too much.
The replacement will likely survive the next election – “speaker seeking reelection” goes on ballot paper and they are usually unopposed in any real sense.
And there you have it. Dave now risks being saddled with another Labour placeman for the next 10 years. That’s why he didn’t sign the order paper.
If it’s a majority vote on party lines it will be the third Labour Speaker in a row. Not good.
Gordon often says Ian is a moving speaker.
Vote for Ian Austin the MP’s Mp.
This’ll be a desperate pre-emptive strike to keep Ming Campbell off the speaker’s chair.
there are those who want genuine reform of parliament
and there are those who want to make it appear that they want genuine reform of parliament. Bercow comes squarely under the latter heading.
Ming has also had his snout in the trough, though.
Alan Beith is the dull but probably clean preference.
Bercow is a Red Tory – we don’t want him, unless of course you fancy a Speaker without real principles or gravitas. The man’s a muppet.
Bercow is a Labour plant. Don’t trust him an inch.
Exactly. And we certainly don’t want someone who has to stand on a box to take a pee.
What we need is Doris Karloff.
Er…
The problem with pigs is that they are likely to vote for more troughing. One fool of a sketch writer being interviewed on Sky News this afternoon suggested – wait for it… Jack Straw!!!! Jack Fucking Straw!!!! Can you believe that? The mind doesn’t just boggle it shuts down completely.
Dear God,that would be advanced lunacy.
Herr Jackboot Strawman??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…….
Evil Hoon.
The Penguin.
That’s on a par with the Times writer a couple of days ago who in all seriousness put forward – wait for it! – Gerald Kaufmann. Gott im Himmel!
I used to be part of a syndicate set up to raise funds for hunt staff facing legal fees, and we had a filly called ‘Dame Gerald’. But Wetherbys had been primed to veto the name LOL – so we had to call her something innocuous like Country Pursuit
What a pompous twat, to even veto a horse being called by your well-known Commons nickname
Apparently the veto came formt he horse’s mouth, so to speak (but not Speak- Er…)
Frank Ifield – though the yodelling might be annoying
LOL
More sticking plasters & useless offerings.
Surely the “Court of Public Opinion” counts
Guido for Mr Speaker – first act:
Dissolve Parliament.
Who is John Bercow
never heard of him
Must be something fishy…
Well known slimeball.
John Bercow is a midget so you’ve probably missed him. He’s a bit like Alan Duncan only fifty times worse.
He spends a lot of time asking questions about Israel.
That’s because he works for them.
OMG
and gay as a three bob bit as well ?
No
They call him the dansing three bob bit in the House of Lords
With a name like Bercow he IS one of them!
He berks of course
He sits nominally on the Conservative benches for Buckingham but he might as well be sitting on the Labour benches. He used to be a right wingTory but found the power of “lurve” and his other half is an arch-Blairite Does that answer the question ?
What happened in 2005/6? Seems to have lost his way or was that just due to the GE giving funny numbers for some MPs?
What about Sir Ming? He’s already got the main trappings of a Speaker , namely the fully expensed king-sized bed, scatter cushions and a plasma television, plus its his birthday this Friday.
He must have a good, healthy appetite claiming £800 every month for food.
Beluga caviar and Bollinger are expensive. Good job he doesn’t have to pay for them himself.
That still hasnt narrowed it down.
Ming the Muncher doesn’t need any more opportunities to trough.
Oh for frucks sake. Just another crooked Scotchman. God knows why they go about him. Time for an Englishman/woman.
Not that there is much to say for biddyWiddy
Unlikely to have any naughty weekends on the expenses, I’d say.
The very fact that Labour backbenchers are ‘pushing’ anyone at all is sufficient reason for that individual to be deleted from any list of candidates. Are these people stupid or what? Do they seriously believe that the public has any faith in their choice(s)?
These monsters are all completely untrustworthy. Why was there not a single backbench Labour voice raised when all this thievery was going on (well, maybe one or two such as Hoey, but even then only recently)? And now they expect us simply to swallow their choice?
Nope, they’ve completely fucked public trust. It won’t be restored for years.
After the election the only place you will see the Labour Party will be in the history books because as a political party they are finished kapput, down the drain and thoroughly fucked.
Got to watch out for Labours postal votes, because the are as crooked as a donkeys hind leg.
All the broadsheet commentators wrote that afer the Foot debacle.
We will have another scenario where the shell of the moribund – and now disgraced – party can be taken over by a cell wishing to trade on the party’s history, while having no roots therein. Another succubus: just like ‘Noo Lieboor’.
Labour is finished and was in the Thatcher era since it was founded on Union aspirations and subsequent power. Now those are defunct and meaningless, it’s just a suit to be worn by the grabbiest entity
What Marx said about history – ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’.
So we all know what to expect
Preeeecisley!
Hey? What have I done????
You’re bent!
John Bercow is Jewish
Watch for the Mandelson plant…
Ah
That explains why he is 1st in the Tory troughing stakes…!!
NUFF SAID!!!!
Our masters again. They gave us Cameron after all.
Should we be grateful.
Bercow was on the verge of crossing the floor when Labour were riding high in the polls over a year ago.
Dead right.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/buckingham/
He’s a deaf, disloyal, troughing bloody midget and he deserves the order of the boot, not the chance to say ‘order order’ at colleagues while standing on a box.
Bercow is another bloody placeman…
he will trough compromise, cover up for the “chums” and receive
WAIT FOR IT
A LIFE PEERAGE !!!!!!!
Was he on the Yacht with Rothschild and Mandelboy? I know there was a Tory too….
Did anyone ever find out what that was all about?
RACIST!!!!!!!
Is that Derek Draper? I claim my £5!
Will a signed copy of his book do, instead?
Guido,
I have just written to Michael Gove to explain why he will fail to retake his seat at the next election. It is the same with Bercow and the rest of them. By the time the election is called, be it three months or a year, every voter in every constituent will have access to the sitting MP’s record on expense claims and their majority will be destroyed through viral campaigns and straightforward attacks by the other parties.
MPs of all parties seem to be hoping to return to Parliament without the votes they need to get back in. They truly do live in another world.
http://howtoremoveyourmp.blogspot.com/
Niver mind aw ra crap aboot a new speaker!!!!!!!!
Ah mean wha’s gonnae stuff aw they postal vote envelopes an “at fur ra bye-election fur when he goes tae the Lords ??
Aye, its aw right fur yous bit if we dinnae get oor fingers oot o” oor jeer holes an get votin early and often big Gordy “ll be reamin oot oor erses wae his size tens!!!!!!!!
Are you by any chance related to Stanislav?
Which Labour backbenchers? I need to know where to direct my contempt apart from at the poisoned dwarf.
Julian Clarey
Bruce Forsyth.
“Nice to see ya, to see ya, nice!” at the State Opening of Parliament: Brenda would live it.
MPs expenses? Didnt they do well?!?
Higher! Higher!
Anthea Redfern’s bleat was “deeper, deeper”, apparently. Rumour has it he has an exceptionally large steaming stalk.
O/T has anyone noticed, Amazon has pulled all the reviews of Dolly Draper’s stupid fucking book?
Has the sad little bitch had a little moan to Amazon?
Could be because they’ve a warehouse full and can’t shift them.
I mean – who would buy it apart from his Mom?
He complained so Amazon removed all the reviews.
Seem to be some new ones though…….
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Support-Derek-Draper/dp/1848500440/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242748422&sr=8-1
Reprinted courtesy of Amazon as a public service.
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…if you would care enough to save the author from the current, self inflicted predicament in which he finds himself, then by all means throw him a lifeline and buy this book.
However, for those amongst you who are less altruistic in nature – who may simply be searching for well reasoned, non-patronising and genuinely helpful advice, written by someone with unquestionable knowledge, experience and integrity – then I would advise you to look elsewhere, as you won’t find it here.
Reads like a review of the last 10 years
It’ll be remaindered soon in “Bookends” at £2.99 along with those other tomes of wisdom by Blunkett,Prescott,Campbell and Blair(Cherie)
+++ LibDem Sir Alan Beith announces Speaker Bid +++
http://www.alanbeith.org.uk/news/000369/beith_responds_to_resignation_of_speaker_martin.html
Obviously trying to get a head start on Cable and Ming!
Don’t believe it! Another Kiltie
I think a Lib Dem nonentity as the new Speaker is a good idea.
At least he would a more-or-less neutral nonentity instead of a partisan lefty trougher of a nonentity like Gorbals Muck.
Sir Alan Beith sounds ideal.
I hate to say it but I think the English would quite like to hear an English accent for a change!
Agreed.
och aye
Vince Cable.
At least it would keep him off TV
We’ve had one conman, we don’t want another.
We must regrettfully decline to support that suggestion. Who would we have as our resident “Economics Guru” ? It’s almost as bad as if Robert Peston was standing for Director General
I suggest Nadine Dorries, purely on aesthetic grounds, as I just can’t stand the thought of looking at Ann Widdecombe every time I see reports from the House of Commons. Also, if she has a ‘grace and favour’ apartment, at least we will know where she lives.
No point in Nadine doing it when she’s going to be deselected before the next election.
Good point, although according to Dizzy and Ian Dale (if I remember rightly) she might have a good enough explanation concerning her living arrangements. I must say, I find her quite appealing.
Get me the job and I’ll wear a tight leather miniskirt every day. Of course, all in the best possible taste.
Phwooooorrr!! Eh? Eh?
Guess where Nadine was yesterday when virtually every MP was in the Commons to hear the Speaker apologising for Members’ freeloading off the tax-payer?
According to her blog, she earned her day’s pay having a corking old time enjoying a flight in an RAF jet (just a guess, but I expect said aircraft was commissioned for something a little more important than taking troughing bimbos on round-trips of the Cotswolds).
Chocks away!
Up where we belong
Widdecombe’s very anti free speech, too. On that ground alone she shouldn’t get the job.
Sooner she’s out of Parliament the better – she supported the Hunting Bill like a dedicated leftie, doing the foul bidding of Elliott Morley anbd Tony Banks
On the other hand she’s about the only person I’ve seen to give Kirsty Squawk a bloody nose, and that was in the John Major era, when AW was regularly on Newsnight
But she’d be “somewhere else” at weekends
I’d vote for Jordan, she would certainly keep the attention of most Hon. Members
Over-rated. She appeared briefly on Countryfile on Sunday. You could see the trowel-marks in the make-up. And pink high-heel wellies for God’s sake!
What? With Peter Andre as “Black Rod” to keep the Gays interested?
I thought David Lammy was black rod. So Dawn Butler says anyway.
There are enough tits in the chamber already.
Phhhwoooorrr!!!!
How quickly can we get Joanne Lumley elected ?
What about me?
The current Speaker is a Hoon – let’s keep it in the family!
John Bercow is a fucking leftist traitor, member of the TRG as well so he’s a commie.
After Quentin Davies he should of had the whip withdrawn.
He’s in Gordy’s Big Tent.
Fleck off you silly moo, whoever you are. Instead of standing against Margaret Moron – someone who’s doomed anyway – and depriving a Tory of a cert seat, why don’t you stand against somebody far more vile who mightn’t otherwise lose their seat – Ed Balls perhaps
Ahem….’should have had’ is correct.
What on earth is going on in the heads of Quentin Davies and presumably John Bercow? Joining Labour? Sucking up to Labour? Looks like all time losers willingly climbing aboard the Titanic, even in the knowledge that it’s doomed!
Or ……. William Hague.
Parliamentarian to his toes, forthcoming battles with EU (,ark my word).
Long-term reform
Quick on his feet
Discuss
Interesting – plus a sense of humour – interfere with his other stand-up acts though
yup
Good idea. In fact, a very good idea.
Needed in Government.
The Penguin.
He’d make a good Foreign Minister and God knows we need one after Margaret Beckett and now Miliband.
no way don’t waste him, we’ll need him helping Dc run the country. he’s too good to lose.
Phhhwooor!!!
Quite.
You want to get that exhaust seen to.
No way. Cameron would never want him neutralised. You must be a Labourite.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Agree he’d be valuable wherever he went, but with recent Parliaments all-too-eager to give powers away, not use what powers remain, and enrich themselves at our expense – it might be best if he did a spell as Speaker.
After 15 years to the Lords to continue his good work there, maybe back in Government from the Lords (as per Carrington in Defence)
Hague’s needed in government to ensure our gradual removal from the EU.
Didn’t think about this, did they?
Mmm? Now who hasn’t been shafting the taxpayer for every penny they possibly can?
Why not Carswell? They say they need a leader and he certainly led Martin out the back door.
Yes – the last couple of Private Eye’s have warned against this. He has a stupendous memory (at least he would know the names of MPs) and has become quite ‘wet’ in a rock-solid Conservative seat. There are other candidates of real back-bone.
No wonder he is desirable to Nu-Old Lab. May just slip in.
Dangerous.
Very dangerous
Might be “used” by NuLabour to COVER UP (AGAIN)
GORBALS MUST HAVE LEFT AN AWFUL MESS IN THE SPEAKERS HOUSE AND FEES OFFICE..DANGEROUS EVIDENCE AGAINST NEW LABOUR
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET A “TAME SPEAKER” ELECTED TO STOP “SPEAKER GORBALS” (and others) GOING TO JAIL
Don’t vorry, mein undercover frieund – it vos all shredded ages ago…
John Prescott
Oh Please leave me alone
I know that I am greatest BUFOON that Nu Labour ever invented
But I deserve PEACE to appreciate my ill gotten gains..
And I am RETIRING AT THE NEXT ELECTION (hope Plod doesn’t catch up with me before that)…
oink oink
Now here’s a laugh….Denis Skinner!
Skinner = loud mouthed gobshite, hypocrite, pervert, and cock-sucker to Brown.
Don’t be fooled by Skinner’s man of the people act. It’s a con. You hardly see him in the constituency and when you do he’s an arrogant cocky twat.
Most people in Bolsover can’t stand the prick.
Tosser
Get Kate Hoey – someone who could really sort these men out, she’d put them through their paces, whip them into shape and have them jumping through hoops for their expenses.
I thought they put that sort of thing on expenses under entertainment.
My diary secretary did it for free. Phwwwoooorrrr! Eh?
Before we all finish celebrating the departure of the glasgae trougher & the sight of mendacious MP’s writhing in faux contrition, let’s not forget that there was another party to this fraud. Journalists & columnists in all the papers.
Can anyone explain to me how people who were in constant contact with MP’s, broke bread with them, shared holidays with them in a few cases were even married to them never noticed that a £64kpa salary seemed to be stretching an awful long way. Where did they think that individuals who’d never held down a proper job in their lives were getting the money to have extensive property portfolios & houses full of luxury furniture?
Was the presumption that they were fiddling their expenses better than the other obvious explanation? That they were on the take?
It’s time to be asking who else knew what was happening & kept quiet.
Quite right Sir
The Main Stream Press acted as prostitutes and abandoned their role as watchdogs..
One reason why the rot is see deep…
And a bugger to sort out…
fuck off England’s Great, never had so much fun
They’re cronies of New Labour and should be punished along with them.
And none more so than the BBC. When do we get to slim those fat Hoons down to size and see the details of their expenses? Especially that Nick Robinson. Whose gonna offer to prise him out of Browns arse?
Those bastards fuckin knew all along. They knew that McBride was a Hoon and still is. They probably know that Gordon Brown was a party to it all along, you know our lovable leader so full of integrity! What a Hoon! I hope you all rot in hell for what you have done to this country. Don´t forget, don´t vote for any mainstream party until they have learned their lessons, like promising a referendum on Europe in their manifesto and then tearing it up! You deserve everything you have got coming to you. May you rot in hell forever you evil bastards.
OT
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Is this more or less scary than the idea of Ann Widowmaker as the new Speaker?
Why can’t we have that nice Kate Hoey instead?
Because Ann Widdicombe is wittier, more entertaining and more quotable. viz. “My hair shirt’s hairier than you hair shirt” – the most memorable quote of the week.
In her case that’s probably true
Widdicombe is just one big ego who loves the sound of her own voice.
Athough they are both category ‘A’ shits John Bercow would be even more incompetent (and greedy) than Gorbals Mick.
Do we know if it will be a secret ballot yet?
Yes, it’s going to be secret and Gordon will arrange for them all to be secretly whipped into voting for the right candidate.
Yes, Gordon will count the votes in secret.
“Ayes to the left”
“Harumph”
“Sorry, Gordon, eye.”
I’m waiting to learn if my MP Charles Hendry has a good explanation
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/charles_hendry/wealden#expenses
Joint 1st for 4 yrs [second for another] – he lives within 90 mins commuting of Westminster. I do the same journey as do hundreds of others from this constituency
Can I have £23, 083 to make up my travel and sandwich cost?
I had the temerity to ask the same question about my MP in neighbouring Lewes, “Saint” Norman Baker of The Expenses
Our Norm claims an ACA of £21,862 for a second home, to aviod only the 60 minute commute that hundreds of Lewes commuters manage each day. As “shadow” *cough* Transport spokeman for the Lib Dems, I’d have thought he would love for the train to take the strain
Bakers supporters on Iain Dale/Political Betting have recently taken to rounding on any questioning Saint Norman’s gravy train of being agents of The Nasty Party
Yes but to be fair, do you often work past midnight or are you on the 5.21 like all the rest?
What a set of losers on here, they throw you a piece of red meat and your all fighting for it,nothings changed it’s still the same, they are still at it and you lot are guessing who will be the next speaker,how easy it is to satisfy the brainwashed.
Election now.
Assume lololo means Lots Of Labour Or Liberal Opinions
no it’s just a crap name,it’s my opinion that your losing the main thread and need to be put back on track,Liebour/Libdum you gotta be kidding not a cat in hells chance.
Well for someone who can’t spell for toffee it could just as easily have meant to be Lilo Lil.
I knew her well.
Frank Field would in my view be the best choice, although I would miss his incisive, well-informed and cliche-free contributions to debates on important issues.
I somehow doubt though that they will give the job to a genuinely independent thinker and maverick such as Field.
I’m a Fuckwitt get me out of here, celebrity Blogger, the right Horrible two shits Prescott has yet to find the words to write about the Great Expenses Swindle
What is up with you lard arse?
Your blog states
“The campaign’s main aims are to:
1. Proudly defend the record of the Labour government since 1997
2. Actively support the government in promoting policies that will build on our successes
3. Encourage greater participation in the Labour Party
4. Highlight the damage a Conservative government will do to Britain”
Come on Prezza, but down that Vienetta and get those porky sausages tapping out on the keyboard, let us know what you think
I’m too fooking scared mate to even move outside of my house…
I know that I am a working class and world class coward
Cant’ help it
I was born that way…
SO sod off
Nobody earning an MP’s salary and claiming the expenses that Prescott can claim to be working class! And please don’t tellme that Labour is working for the working classes – it might be working for the benefit cheats but it hasn’t worked for the genuine working classes for more than a generation.
What about Rob Marris, the Wolverhampton MP? – he was backbencher of the year apparently his expenses are amongst the lowest.
Whoever gets the job must be squeaky clean. Ming Campbell is desperate to get it (he thought it was his last time) but his interior designer expense claim plus all that food should stop him dead in his upwardly mobile tracks.
Have you seen him speak in the House? He’s a creep who jumps up as often as he can, has an opinion on everything and knows sod-all. He’s a mirthless, van-thumping (went to Court didn’t he?) tosser.
VINCE CABLE would make a great Speaker
he understands the main Public mood and issues plus sounds so often like he is speaking common sence. Doubt if he would take the job but he would be one they all FEARED as he has such strong Public support across the Country
He’s got a mouth like a cat’s arse, though.
Cable is a conman, hyped up to fool idiots like you. Try thinking for yourself instead of believing everything you hear on the telly.
His knowledge and experience is too valuable to lose.
Field is certifiable and in the wrong party – which I suppose is his ticket.
Plus, Ming Campbell is one of Brown’s toadies.
Ming Campbell and Gordon Brown have another thing in common. They are both completely useless, but each assassinated his predecessor, even though he was the most successful ever leader of his party. They must have lots to talk about.
…and another trougher from north of Hadrian’s Wall.
That bloke from Luton who hasn’t stolen anything, he’d do. Doesn’t need a genius, just an honest fair sort with a backbone.
The Penguin.
Kelvin Hopkins? You must be joking. The reason he hasn’t claimed much is because he’s too dumb and too lazy to bother.
Nein, Nein, Nein….
Deputy Speaker Herr Sir Alan Hazelhurst ist die safest pair of hand und ideal to bring much needed calm und respect back to ze House. (zis iz no time for a novice!)..
Exactly and on the subject of Martin, I see he’s been in the house for around 30 years, just imagine how much he has scammed in total!
More than you’ll fucking know…
[humming] “I’m forever shredding expense receipts”!
Go for Minge Campbell, at least he’s got the honesty to admit he’s one.
You are another one ?
Go directly to Barlinnie Prison please
Without passing go…
I know nothing about the man (Bercow) but Guido’s figures are a bit misleading on this one.
According to ‘They work for you’, his TOTAL expenses (as opposed to his ‘Additional Costs Allowance’) for 2007/8 are £103,436 – which make him 631st out of 645.
See bottom line of table here:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/john_bercow/buckingham#expenses
If you don’t employ many staff it improves your ranking considerably! He only spent £56k on staff 635th of the MPs
Must have a small family, then :)
I don’t want the fucking job. I’m making too much money doing “Safe Pair Of Hands” TV appearances.
Vince Cable = one trick pony
Fuck it…I’ve been rumbled!
Bless you my son.
Tom Watson for speaker. Honest Tom would sort out all those greedy thieving Tory toffs!
Haddaway an shite back to yer poncey fukken mansion in Surrey ye fukken limp prick.
Aye man an that gans fer ya poncey friends an all.
Sir Alan Beith chucks his sporran in the ring….http://tinyurl.com/py2ysf Is there a rule that only jocks can apply to be speaker?
There is while Brown is PM.
Here is a knut with lots of money
Lord Foulkes ( another Tougher ) Speaker Martin’s friend, on BBC news praising Gorbals Mick , says Michael Bercow for speaker!!
Maybe we should have Fred Goodwin as speaker he could really show the troughing MPs how to get away with a fortune.
Do you mean John Bercow?
I’m not surprised to hear a Labour lackey of Brown’s advocating Bercow for speaker. The slimy turd is a Labour shill who almost joined them not so long ago..
If Foulkes says “Bercow for Speaker” its because the Labour Mafia have already done a “cover up” deal with Bercow…
KISS OF DEATH
STOP BERCOW I SAY
Labour are a bit short of cash so Gordon is selling the Speaker’s Chair to whichever slush fund pays the most.
Lovely
AT Sotheby’s I Hope
Fetch a good price..
Can they sell that National Treasure Prezza at the same time please ?
Boil him down for lamp oil.
John, Yes., Its the age, having worked through three Labours Balls-ups of the economy “one” is entitled to the odd slip-up!!
There are so many troughers – at our time of life – they are all the same – Red, Blue or Yellow.
hat tip Speccy Coffeeshop.
check this out it’s a heat map of all the our thieving gits and how much they the screwed us for.
http://msn.shoothill.com
Thanks that’s very useful.
the speaker needs to come from outside of the westminster cabal………
they are all hoons-wake up!!!!!!!!!
Obvious choice: Adam Afriyie
He’s honest
He’s talented
He’s young
He’s a bloody good constituency MP
He ain’t no trougher
Multi-millionaire. MPs expenses are small change to him.
Silvio likes his suntan, he should be a shoo-in.
To shut the dopey fucker up.
Finding an honest MP is proving to be a challenge.
It makes you wonder how they manage sex when so many of them have small, thin squiggly tails
Yes
They are all tails and no balls..
Complicated really…….
Isn’t there a lovely lesbian MP whip wielder to keep all the MP boys (and girls) in line ?
Who has already “outed” herself ?
I want TOTTY for speaker…
Tory TOTTY.
There is nothing worthwhile in Labour.
What about Malcolm Rifkind. He’d look good in the outfit and has the sort of presence the job needs, is competent, experienced and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind turning out on a Friday.
Failing him I suggest the Duke of Edinburgh. He’d also look good in the outfit, has the sort of presence the job needs, is competent, experienced, tolerant of foreigners.
He could tell the Queen what was going on, saving all those wasteful trips to Buckingham Palace, which is just up the road so no ACA problems.
He probably has the authority to get people shot, which is always useful.
In a peaceful democracy you must always shoot a few pople
as Voltaire said after Admiral Bing was shot for losing Minorca
“Pour encourager les autres”
(“To encourage the others” for non-Frog speakers)
Malcolm Rifkind is a member of the Jewish community and therefore labours under the delusion that he’s cleverer and more worthy than he is. He’s also an arms dealer and has a private army.
… while the names ‘Esther’, and ‘Rantzen’ sound very Home counties…
They should call an election now and choose a new speaker from the new Parliament. We shouldn´t allow any one to stand unopposed as the speaker any more. This is another piece of shit that has to go.
One down 650 to go!
Agree, incidently what would happen if the new Speaker was deselected or lost his seat at the election. Does he/she remain as speaker?
They would have to elect a new speaker from within the new parliament.
No more standing as the speaker unopposed, it is not democratic. It gives them a fuckin job for life and leads to corruption, so get rid of it now. You listening again? I don´t mean Labour cos they don´t listen and only give a fuck about themselves. You have been warned, read this and act!
While I´m talking about changes, what do you think about this.
None of those thieving bastards should be allowed to cross the floor of the House, without holding a by-election first, none of those cosy deals any more. It´s the electorate who must decide, it´s their seat. No more cosy deals on this one either.
I don’t think all speakers should be judged by the antics of this plank.
Boothroyd, Wetherill and Thomas were all good at the job, and it is Martin’s unsuitability, both intellectual and politically, that has brought the role into disrepute. Choose a competent person with the ability to appreciate that the job is above party politics and there should be no problem.
I can’t see Bercow as a suitable candidate, and neither could anyone else unless he stood on a box. I bet the Chipmunk could spit on his head.
Bercow once told a friend of a friend of mine that he HAD to stay in politics as he could never get a job that paid as well as the salary of an MP.
OFF-TROUGH here we come.
A thoroughly modern politician he must not be considered. Ann Widdecomb would be the best choice.
Ann Widdecombe would knock some heads together. She’s like an old-fashioned Matron who could even get the big-wig consultants running scared. She wouldn’t stand any nonsense. And she’s one of the lowest expenses claimers. Moreover, I reckon she’d get the public vote. She has enough of a high profile to be known to the general public and has proved herself to be straightforward and honest – not concerned with looks and superficialities – more concerned with “doing the right thing”. And she’s got pretty good judgement where that’s concerned, too, and she’s not afraid to go against the tide.
Ann widdecombe is a fat cun+ whose sermon like drone about the virtues of “english life” she reminds me of a parish councillor in a small village, the sort of self righteous indignation that makes you want to beat her to death with a bat.
I’d like to see her vs george galloway though in a fight to the death involving chainsaws
: * )
Agreed.
I’ll do the job so long as I can lift the Speaker’s seat and do a shite without leaving the Chamber.
Another scotch on the rocks, Steward.
How about John Reid? He appears to be an intelligent, rational and well balanced, failing that how about Blunkett’s dog?
Is he allowed in the HOC? I’ve never seen him, nor heard him bark.
Is he allowed to crap on the lawn, and can Blunkett claim expenses for an assistant to scoop it up, since I presume he’d have difficulty locating it safely himself.
Bring us a lady in suspenders rather than a man in tights
The first sensible suggestion I’ve seen.
Hazel Blears – otherwise she’s going to be out of a job – mind she might be a bit drowned in that outfit and she definitely needs the wig to cover up her carrot topping.
The only qualifications are thus:
1) No troughing to date
2) Get the moron to answer a question at PMQs
That’s all. It’s only going to be for a month or two anyway.
I think that some of the expense claims that have been refused and or reduced by the fees office can be as informative as the obscene claims that have been granted. They will certainly say something about the claimant and might be useful in persuading plod to get off his police backside. Also, there seems to be some level of contradiction in claims granted/refused. Is there a pattern?
Was there a particular period when claims allowed were more lax or less lax?
Were claims more lax/less lax for particular individuals or groups of people? parties, committees, business groups, etc.?
Was an identical item allowed one time but not another?
Was authorisation down to more than one individual in the fees office? were they given different instructions?
Was there an ‘official’ green book and one ‘in a plain brown cover’?
Maybe Mr Brogan will be kind enough to publish those claims which were partly or completely refused (with dates).
On a visit in south London, Prime Minister Gordon Brown told reporters: “This is a matter for the House of Commons. Michael Martin has been a very, very good Speaker.”
Labour veteran Tony Benn today gave his support to Mr Martin, calling him one of the “very, very best” of the nine speakers he had sat under.
He told GMTV: “It’s a really tough job and he does it really, really well. The thing is he is a backbenchers’ speaker. Tony Blair did not want him as speaker but the House voted for him.
“His wife has a lot of responsibility to undertake entertaining and they are trying to get at her. He is the first sheet metal worker to become speaker, it is supposed to be a very grand position
OH
FFS
Did they let Looney Benn out of the looney bin ?
Nurse…please..
I’m fed up with hearing about him being a sheet metal worker.
He’s been troughing in Parliament for 30 years – how long was he a sheet metal worker? – not that long presumably. This is just a vain mirage Labour and Martin himself have used over the years to portray him as working class – which he clearly is not. No more is Prescott.
What working class person do you know has the walls of his/her grace and favour apartment papered with hand made wallpaper that costs more than its weight in gold?
Ah, Benn. The man who destroyed the British car industry, over dinner with Harold, in 1968.
When he speaks the words ’sheet metal worker’ the old toff doesn’t know what it means, but he worships the idea of a manual worker.
He’s been defending them for decades…though he might have done a better job if he knew anything about manual work.
We also got a flash of the good old days of trade union intimidation from Mick. His bollocking of Hoey must have reminded a few people of the days when the union thugs made sure all the workers were on side…
And closed more coal mines than Thatcher ever did. Aye he did. What the fuck does he know about shit metal workers? Let him withdraw his pipe and give discourse.
Having followed Guido’s link http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/05/prezza-as-gracious-as-ever.html, it’s got to be Prezza for Speaker. Think of the fun we’d all have.
I hear that Homer Simpson is not busy right now.
He’s more intelligent than the whole lot put together.
Other possibilities -
Timmy Mallet
Paris Hilton
The Chuckle Brothers
The other Cheeky Girl
Bono (but possibly a bit to holier-than-thou)
Peter Andre (not busy just now)
A stuffed weasel
Brown’s on Sky now,no change then, same crap out of a crap PM.
He’s touting his new statutory authority to rule Parliament as if it’s a done deal… not so fast sunshine, Cameron and Clegg need to flag up this pronto. There is only one solution and that’s an election.
Brown has proposed this before and been shot down in flames. His idea is to set it up and then privatise it. Once that is done the claims fall outside the scope of the F.O.I. act
Surely Bercow must have stuff in his past which could be dragged up if he is a serious contender.
Chris Mullin is an interesting name.
He wasn’t cut out to be a Party hack in the halls of Power and might be a unfying “anti-establishment” figure for many on the Labour back benches.
Though to be honest it’s probably going to be a Lib or a Conservative this time out. I would bet on it being a Liberal.
Christ! Brown has started the hagiography bullshit about Martin.
Oh here we go.. Blah Blah blah ,broken systems, blah blah blah, trust lost, blah blah blah, not regained overnight, blah blah blah, tough rules!!!
Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious Gordy and ensuring any future statement on the subject will be ignored as P.R. horseshit.
Chris Mullin’s book shows that he’s a whinging whiner with an over-developed sense of his own importance who hates the British but loves illegal immigrants and wants to send what money we have left to third world crooks.
“Whinging whiner with an over-developed sense of his own importance” applies to the lot of them. As for not wanting to string up em immigrantz furrinners, I believe you are correct and indeed he does seem to believe in giving Aid to the needy as opposed to Billions to Bankers say.
You are missing the larger point though.
Martin was shit BECAUSE he was still a Party hack at heart.
There will be no appetite for anyone remotely resembling a Party Yes man/woman from any quarter. Be it Con Lib or Lab. And whatever Personal Politics they may have pursued before the Speakership will have to be ditched immediately as the Commons will demand a Parliamentarian first and foremost for the new Speaker.
Besides, I’d still bet on it being a Lib. “Their turn” and all that.
his book i think is his retirement package
Brown has announced that no Labour MPs will be allowed to stand if they have broken the rules. The point is, none of them did. The rules are as bent as a nine pound note.
What a pathetic cop-out. He has to get rid of the troughers in the cabinet, but he’s clearly not strong enough.
So weak.
That Prentice bloke would get my vote.
How about the Conservative MP for Thanet North – Roger Gale? Been around for ages and seems to be relatively clean.
Watching Gordon Twasnaeme McSnot live. Looks like he’s got a right cob on. Has Gorbals Mick dropped him in it for not supporting him? i.e. he knew Broon would be answering the press today so Snotman could avoid the questions and also forces a bye-election at the worst possible time. LOL!
Looks like payback time to me.
Is he alive ?
Do tell !
Panic over ?
Lol! The pleasures of the English language.
BTW instead of “…so Snotman could..” should read “…so Snotman couldn’t…”
Guido
Please can you organise a CAR CRASH this evening…??
Like Gordon Brown’s Rolls Royce taking down Admiralty Arch on his way to see the Queen (with all his troughers in it)
On love TV please
Plod might finally get angry and arrest him don’t you think ?
Thanks
Your only Car Crash Spotter
PS I know it is the sort of thing you used to do yourself (in your youth of course)
I’m watching you sunny!
Boris Johnson as an outside bet.
what a wanker brown is
You said it. On Sky right now he’s basically talking himself into a war with the oppo. He’s utterly, utterly useless. And his rank hypocrisy is about to catch up with him.
“Hazel Blears’ actions were unacceptable and she’s accepted that”.
Wanker.
Bercow is a Hoon. That is all that needs to be said on the matter.
listening to brown , sound like hes got a boring handle on the job , labour operation its was all Michael Martins fault is underway. outsourcing it a quango tut tut .
Give new mr speakers the current powers , but reform expenses into simpler regeim , record all lobby meetings , publish mps second jobs payments .
remember it was crooked labour and crooked speaker !! despite what brown waflles on with , the only issue is pay that needs a redress ,it doesnt need some vast quango, expenses will occure no matter what .
totally agree berco is labour shill , widdecombe going to lords , vince or ming would be interesting , but Frank Field , has the experince has often told corrupting whips to shove it , just if he wants manager role rather than maverick.
following patrick mcormacks subtle grenade i did wonder as he has the experience .
listend to dave o five live , he took both barrels rather well , some real public anger was on him bit unfair giving him his personal fortune vs being paid for the job dilemma . The payment is for anyone who does the job and takes into account that you may not be wealthy , quite if you are wealthy you shouldnt claim is non sensical when you look at it
Just been listening to the Prime Minister’s press conference. When asked if Hazel Blears will go, Brown said she has paid the money back, her conduct is unacceptable but she had not broken any rules.
So much for “Any Labour MP who has broken any rules will not be allowed to stand at the next election”. In his eyes, none of them have broken the MPs rules set by themselves for themselves. So they will all be standing!
Ampers
Is this Brown’s car crash,just as we had the speakera yesterday,Brown is pure spin.
Wish some of the journos would rock the casbah a bit… like ask whether this new Quango is agreed to by Parliamentary consensus on a free vote.
Brown says he’s been talking to ’some people’ — which people? Unemployed accountants from Arthur Anderson (Enron)? The board of RBS? Which fucking people</b? are going to be given exec control of Parliament you washed up twister?
Sounds alarming, but conceivably typical simple McWaffle, like “saving the world”. You know how things pop out of him when he’s under stress.
John Prescott for Speaker
I would pay good money to see Prescott as speaker.
Would that make him “3 seats” ?
The system this, the system that….. well if the ’system’ is so awful, then why have they all been taking full advantage of it for years rather than protest about it??!!
G Brown has just said ‘the system’ a hilarious number of times in his press conference. Like a dalek malfunctioning.
It’s a youtube vid waiting to be made!!
Grovel. grovel. Mr Prime Minister Sir, would it be alright if I respectfully ask you a question about the Expenses Problem which I know you have actively been working to solve for a long time..
Nick,
Tonight I’m going to cook us dinner, and I’ve bought an industrial size canister of vaseline.
You’re my cute little bitch, and I love you,
Kisses,
Gordon.
Absolutely amazed that nobody has jumped up and punched Brown at the press conference. He has repeated the same line to each question, without obviously, answering anything except the mantra of ‘his’ new reform of the system. He even takes credit for initiating the process – because no one knew about ‘these things’ until the last few days!!
How does the press sit there and take this rubbish??? I can’t stand anymore and have put the tv off.
We need saving from this looney. Nothing is going to change until he resigns and his government are thrown out.
Well its obvious , this is all about Labour and the CLASS WAR STRUGGLE, its a simple as that, its down to CLASS, why doesnt he do us all a favour and just fuck off now, before you get the chance to find out what we are are all gonna do you. You fucked us now we are going to return the favour, cheers
I quite agree. Whatever the question asked, he simply says ‘cleaning up the system’ I gave up counting how many times he repeated this after reaching 80!! The man is a disgrace, and so it seems are the press and media who seem to accept this garbage.
You just don’t like him because he’s an idiot, admit it.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2436326.ece
Brown’s still in denial and lying through his teeth….”I’m the only one doing anything..they’ll not stand if they’ve broken rules…Blears etc have not broken any rules or the Law”..etc etc etc.
The lying,cheating,thieving bastard still believes he’s the fucking Messiah..
Well..we all know what happened to him,don’t we?..
..and the sooner the better
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty fugging boy.
Alan Sugar
Anonymous…………You’re fired.
It is right to clean out hardworking systems…..
Vaz for speaker. He has some nice satin cushions to keep him comfy on that big chair.
that is so funny ,
the man is making an absolute mockery of us, cnn question damning, mexico damning, it’s a bloody embarrassment. election now, grrrr
System…mumble…strange hand dance…system…strange hand dance…system…system…mumble…system.
Cut the crap Gordon. Give us a General Election.
“it’s the right thing to do”… A General Election NOW is the only right thing to do. At least he’s not doing crazy grins now.
Brown live on Sky now, getting questions from CNN and Mexican correspondents suggesting that British politicians, Westminster, and Parliament have lost all moral authority with the rest of the world.
And this after Iraq !
How the mighty have fallen indeed.
They’re right.
..and they’re correct…but only that incompetent lying,thieving scumbag Brown can’t see it.
This Press Conference is an embarrassment of gigantic and unprecedented proportions for this Country.
Tom Bradby is giving him shit for the 3rd time..but the fucking hoon just avoids and denies.
FFS.. we must get rid of this piece of shit excuse for a human being..he doesn’t deserve to represent the United Kingdom any more.
Indeed they have. And from Mexicans FFS!
The only redeeming feature of this whole fiasco is that in all countries this sort of stuff goes on but there are very few where it would be exposed in this way and action taken.
Elsewhere troublesome journalists or bloggers usually don’t get past their front door.
Perhaps The Queen might care to ring that Hoon Brown up and tell him to call and election immediately.
Her Majesty would not be using the telling bone. She would command his presence forthwith.
And set the corgis on the twat.
Mark Oaten
Then every MP could say
Mr Speaker you are full of shit
or speak for both sexes and families
Oh no, Gordo was at the launch of the London World Cup bid yesterday – it’s doomed then!
Not one NOT ONE of the “journalists” at the press conference pointed out in words even Brown could fail to acknowledge that (with a very few exceptions) all the troughing was done “within the rules” so Brown’s promise to deselect anybody who broke the rules applies to, what, 3 or 4 Labour thieves.
At least most MPs do something in return for being paid and allowed to fill their boots from “allowances”: not well, I grant you, but they do it. The crap “working” for the MSM don’t even do what they’re overpaid to do.
Brown bottles it big time during 19th May 2009 Press Conference
Brown twice said that Blears would not be sacked…despite having ‘fingers in the till’ and had paid the money back on his suggestion. Tell that to benefit claimants, Brown has lost it big time all too little too late. This is a man clinging to the wreckage. We are watching this Government imploding. A slow motion car crash. This latest Press Conference will come back and haunt him in the not too distant future. Expect 200 MP’s to lose their seats on this showing. Brown keeps banging on about when he came into politics. He’s been running the system for over 10 years, so a bit rich (no pun intended) to start introducing widespread root and branch reform when he does not have the 100 % support of the house and likely to be out of business inside a year. A very Black day all round, Brown just does not get it. Expect Nokias to be thrown after this conference. Mrs Brown better call up Pickfords….
I love it
The Poison Dwarf has her fingers in the pie and out of it at the same time
MOCK TUDOR LABOUR IS MAGIC MY FRIEND
Sounds like furniture polish don’t you think ?
That common thief and premier poison dwarf claims she has repaid the money she stole, there is no proof she has paid it back and we have only her word for it, waving a blank cheque in front of the cameras isnt proof and she hasnt yet provided a receipt from the HRMC.
Even if she pays the money over it could well be treated as an overpayment and the thieving fucking midget will just get the stolen cash back as a refund later.
The word of a MP should be enough for anyone.
This isnn’t just about CGT. She isn’t going to pay back the thousands in expenses she claimed which enabled her to buy and sell 4 houses in 2 years during the property bubble, making large profits on all of them.
So if I go out and rob someone, it’ll all be alright if I get caught, just so long as I return what I stole. Should make an interesting defence in future court cases.
And she’s been a bloody minister for years, trousering £140k. venal rodent.
I want bold text like you have : * (
I’m the prime minister of this country, please let me have some bold text.
The new speaker
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/images/fatpig2.jpg/image_preview
Brown is not going to do anything, when cornered with Blears, all he could say “was it was within the rules” he is not going to do anything.
as long as they don’t go for Haslehurst, the deputy speaker. He’s been troughing £142k….
thanks but no thanks
Only one possible candidate. Henry Blofeld.
Pigeons and buses in the early morning. Bloers would love it!
My vote goes to the white cat.
Can you imagine it sitting there on the speaker’s chair, looking down on everyone with a superior smirk?
Sorry, Iwas thinking of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in James Bond!
Not heard of the other one.
Hands up anyone who can think of someone in politics who won’t start troughing as soon as they are elected?
There is no one in Parliament untainted by the troughing and smeargate scandals.
We need a new parliament. Halve the number of MP’s, halve their hours, and remove their expenses.
Let’s find people who consider the job of being an MP as the highest honour and privilege a country can bestow, not more troughers who use the job to fill their boots with our cash, then refuse to resign when they are caught with their armpits in the till.
OT..but any one see gordon mcmental’s press conf …utter car crash tv….be gone you evil man
totally car crash.
O/T notice the petition for Chairman Brown to resign has picked up again. About 1,000 a day.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/#detail
Don’t forget.
Sky is roasting Brown basically calling him a liar.
What’s going on with Jon Craig’s hair on Sky? He’s got about 4x more on top now than when I last saw him. Looks like boot polish on his forehead?
Did you mean to say Foreskin ?
Must have been to the beauty salooooon….
It’s boot polish on my foreskin. It ain’t turd, honest.
He tied with Cheryl Gillan in 2006/07 and 2002/03, who is my local MP. She got done for the dog food but how about Members Travel: Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,384 (265th). Rail £81 (562nd). Other: Mileage £416 (16th). Rail £4,305 (2nd).
So she drives into London because she can make more than the train fare but probably goes First Class to Wales for her Shadow Cabinet job.
According to her website: “Cheryl Gillan, MP for Chesham and Amersham, today joined with consumer groups to highlight the problem of silent telephone calls, which cause misery for thousands of consumers.”
Last year, her local party was the subject of a complaint to the Telephone Preference Service for calling at random (getting through to ex-directory number)s to recruit for the party.
More hypocrisy than meets the eye.
Would he be able to be seen over the mace?
Did anyone else hear Denis MacShane on today’s Daily Politics show (BBC2) blow the whistle on UKIP MEP and leader Nigel Farrage? He said that Farrage had obtained £2 million in expenses! Yes, 2 MILLION!!!
This is explosive stuff. I am surprised the media haven’t focused on UKIP before now. Maybe now they will!!
Thats a drop in the bucker compared with Nu Mock Tudor Labour…
UKIP politicians are some of the biggest, greediest sleazebags and troughers in the Euro parliament.
UKIP has always been open about taking every penny it could from the EU gravy train. They use alot of it to support the party. The commission got so upset at them using EU money to fight the EU that they tried to take legal action against them.
This was covered years ago. ‘Move on nothing to see here, move on nothing to see’
Enough of the CONS. very own chipmunk!
After the rafts of details Cameron put out to sort out expenses yesterday, this was the best Brown could do, its totally laughable.
He basically put it into committee and didnt want to touch it, he aint going to sack any of the cabinet and he’s going to have to be dragged out of No 10 with torches and pitchforks.
Glenda Jackson for Speaker
English
Non-trougher?
Independently minded
Can deliver her lines well
Likes bottled Guiness
Can we have a young Ollie Reed and Alan Bates wrestling naked before the chair? That would cheer up the ladies. And some of the blokes.
Too much of a socialist on a mission. Glenda would abuse her position and get carried away.
She might bring smoking back in pubs. Not that I want to smoke in pubs – I just want the over-indulged brats and fcuking buggies out. And the twatty food menus.
Boothroyd in her former career may have showed her legs, and Jackson in hers may have shown her everything.
Yes she’s died in the wool hard labour with no time for ZaNuLieBour version of it.
She actually thinks her constituents and their problems are important. I happen to despise lefties but I think Glenda has the integrity and the reforming zeal and the backbone to be neither party’s patsy to be a good speaker.
Look beyond her politics and you might glimpse a potential speaker who think the electorate and democracy are not to be ignored in parliament. This is someone who might insist on ministers and prime ministers answering the BLOODY questions FFS.
These desperate times call for us to look in some different boxes.
Perhaps. But I hope she has the good grace to keep her clothes on. When she were a young lass we didn’t mind looking at her tits in the fillims but the Commons is no place for that sort of thing. It is not in the best of taste, even for a Camden MP.
we are on the brink of a general election…i can feel it in me waters !!!!
Don’t let it burst my friend
Could do yourself some serious damage you know…
Mayor Boris
Always looking after the People
McLoon himself was wearing the Election Specials quite recently. As far as I could tell the broonometer was registering a strong possibility of a damp start, followed by heavy showers with standing “water” in the turn-ups and shoes.
Little Berc. would be ideal. Good Socialist wife who towers over him even in his lifts. Having gone to the top of claims he needs to move up the expenses ladder and since a Gov. job is unlikely the Speakers x’s must have great appeal.
Dont’ tell me he is another dwarp
The Tory reply to the Poison One ?
Are there any normal people in the House of Commons ??
Moi. And I don’t want to be prime minister. Unless I’m asked.
Will he need a ladder to “climb” into the Speaker’s Chair ?
I’ve got just the job…
Bob the Builder
(and I’m unemployed)
I believe Ian McCartney has given him a signed copy of “Climbin’ tae yer seat fer Dumb Bassats”.
Mrs Bercow, phwwwoooorrr!! There’s been more than one John in that one! Eh? Eh??
Guido
Please tell me that you will pursue the local councillors wages and expenses when you’re finished with the MPs and MEPs troughers.
listenhard working families. This expenses and speakers downturn credit crunch is a global problem that started in America. I will carry on with the job, that only I am skilled enough to do. Not like that David Cameron character of the do nothing party!! Afterall he caused this problem that started in America, not me. And I’m doing it for britain’s hard working families.
The Speaker is a very good speaker, the best speaker in the history of speakers. If it wasnt for this global speaker crisis that started in america he would be getting on with the job. Like i am. And I don’t wet myself. Cameron does. He’s American!
Wibble.
Gordo.
The stockings may appeal to him.
Troughin to the coffin that’s the nulab way.
Tony B’Liar must be helpless with laughter by now. Broon wanted the job and now he’s got it and finds that it’s totally beyond him. Cherie Slotmouth must be rolling about helplessly too.
Really you just couldn’t write this stuff.
Does anyone else think that the reason why B rown cant get rid of B lears is that this would create a precedent and when the real sh*te hits the fan with B alls et al he will have to have a mass cull.
The most honable thing to do this afternoon for this country would have been for him to have called an election. From the questions from the internal journos to him this afternoon we are now becoming a global joke
Mickey speakerofthehouse was invented by Walt disnae in 1932
Quentin Letts on John Bercow – about all you need to know:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1116466/QUENTIN-LETTS-The-minister-hosed-Mr-Bercow-golden-syrup.html
He seems repulsive from this description.
Not the man for the job by any means, but I can see that Labour would like him, particularly his support for Harman in getting more gays and lesbians into Parliament.
Does his constituency know about him?
That is GLCs. Gays, Lebians, and Crooks.
Keep your eyes fixed on 19th July comrades, sorry Harriet, and comradettes. That’s about 60 days give or take the odd billion. Brazen it out till then and this goldfish-brained electorate will have forgotten it.
OT Brown will have something else on his plate soon from the area that will vote for anybody with a red rosette,Runcorn and Widnes,the old bridge is gridlocked every day and it will cost £400million to build a new one,they have come up with the idea to charge for both bridges when the new one is built,the old one is free at the moment,not a happy area now,what happend to road tax to pay for this sort of thing.
System, system, I put proposals to the house, er system, system.
Why didn’t anyone ask, were these the proposals half your cabinet voted against. You know, the ones you didn’t bother turning up to to vote for?
I thought the sky sports question had him rattled, not quite in the way I’d like to see him rattled though.
Did you watch my Press Conference? And did you notice that I claimed that I was the first person to do anything about the Expenses Issue?
Yeah, you did tell us. Too many fucking times.
Didn’t you say ‘new deal’ as well at some point today? Bellend.
Can anyone remember Brown saying anything at all that was true ?
Labour want to stitch the Cons up like a kipper so they’re cries of Tory toffs won’t fall on deaf ears like the do now adays.
Yea
Vote Labour and turn Britain into Haiti…
Lovely idea
Scorched earth it’s called
With a lovely dose of class warfare
Real modern I think..
I see Widdecombe has gone from ‘flighty blonde’ back to ‘take me seriously grey’. I reckon she’s limbering up for The Chair. (No. Unfortunately not that one).
She’s no Tiller Girl. More Humber Keel…..
The face that lunched a thousand shops?
Please will someone confirm or deny that the Jacket or Jackets that Dennis Beast Of Bolsover has been wearing for the past eight or nine years is the same one or does he renew it every week?
Check his expenses ,how much has he claimed for clothing if anything at all.
He is not a SUITable candidate for Speaker he aint even got a SUIT.
A word of caution…
When the Government says it will do something the result is, the reverse of what the public wanted and expected.
So when they say they are to reform the Speaker problem, I hope it does not mean it will result in a 500W speaker on each face of Big Ben calling us all to prayer or someone playing the bagpipes.
If anyone would wish to argue this comment in not appropriate, this is called cynicism, you know, like what we have been reading about by our elected leaders
I agree would be typical of Brown to get us all back someway like that. The man is insane and can’t be trusted.
Of course
Bound to be just another Car Crash
So ignore it
Brown’s press conference: total fugging car crash. He’s almost gone, folks.
Never laughed so much in my life as in the last few days reading this Blog
Thank you Mr Guido
And all the co-conspirators
It shows you can create a Revolution and still laugh…
Keep up the good work..
Aw shucks, how embarrasing.
Tis a blessed release verily.
If we didn’t laugh we would cry like babies.
You can help.
Tell yer missus to call an election NOW
At least he has the guts to claim the full amount unlike *some* MPs who claim £100 less the full amount so that they come down lower on the tables.
We don’t know how much they fiddle “under the table” yet
Unreceipted…mileage allowances .etc
So wait…
Oroff balance sheet as use top Financial Advisors would describe it
So he is an upfront “honest” thief? Well that’s alright then.
Putting separation of powers to one side for moment perhaps it would be best if the Speaker wasn’t an MP. Perhaps a senior judge would be a better bet?
Somebody even more detached from the parties than monopolise our politics despite the ludicrously low membership.
Lord Hutton anyone?
I quite agree Dad
Mummy thinks it’s pretty spot on as well…
Anyone seen Unreceipted Chief Whip Browne today ?
Or is he hiding as well ?
The Parliamenary Labour Party must be imploding by now…
He’s sharing a bottle of rum with his loyal lieutenant Dawn Butler
you iz racist innit?
Do they call that “rumming in the jacuzzi”
New one on me..
And I am experianced…
What have you got against John Bercow, Guido? I taught him when he was eleven. He had no time for injustice and unfairness then, and he still has these qualities now. I’ve never known him to be other than honourable and decent.
Trougher? He is in the top ten of value for money MPs.
Who are these sad people who criticise his stature and his birth religion? Could they publish their own vital statistics and give us all a laugh?
I am clean as a whistle old chum..
I’m even circumsized..
So there…
Bercow is a Labour plant. That’s why all these Labour MPs are hyping him up as the next speaker.
Obvious my dear Watson..
We believe in the right to free speech ?
and you ?
He’s a little kosher. That much we know.
WARNING
Big Brother Thought Police Patrolling…
Gordon Brown misses the mark again:
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-not-club-gordon-its-gentlemen.html
He said he had “hoped to make reforms before any revelations were published.” How telling.
But even more damning – he was given a Watchdog’s report in August 2007 detailing these abuses – so he has known of them for two years!!! and not acted.
HOW LONG Gordon does it take you to make up your mind to act?
Now THAT is “silly question of the day”.
And anyone who criticises Bercow is ANTI-SEMITIC
Thats the way they play the game you see
Like the Labour Mafia saying anyone who criticises them is rich Tory Toff educated at Eton…
Same cheap smearing….
Hello yes, they jeer at us from below the castle walls..
Do let’s smite them!
Time was, when his type could not even stand for Parliament – even Yidsraeli converted to C of E.
Short-arsed, troughing Levantine Hoon!
This is going to be the dirtiest General Election campaign in British history
You can already see how the
That’s enough out of you.
C U N T S!!!!!!! They are all F U C K I N G C U N T S!!!!!!!
I would gladly kill the fuckers if I thought I could get away with it.
Would you like to borrow my 12 bore?
I can also offer absolution, if absolutely necessary.
How the French see us,
From Schott’s vocab. New York Times.
The United Condom
Nickname bestowed upon the U.K. by the French after the British Home Secretary “mistakenly” claimed two pornographic movies on expenses.
Discussing the (inevitably titled) porngate scandal that had engulfed Jacqui Smith and her husband, The Daily Mail reported:
“The media in France has dubbed Britain the ‘United Condom.’ Daily newspaper Le Figaro crowed: ‘You couldn’t make it up! With sex, money and politics, this story is a journalist’s dream.’”
Great Britain is the Clown on the World Stage, offering entertainment, not example, not leadership. We no longer have anything of value to offer anybody.
Well let them hope that Germany doen’t invade them again coz we won’t have anything they want and won’t be able to help the cheese eating surrender monkeys.
As if there is no corruption in France!
he he.
Liked the new interim measures.
By my calculation that’s the Balls’ family budget f***ed.
Watch their food bill rise to £800 per month…..
This os going to be the filthiest General Election campaign in British history
You can see the Labour spinners already at work
Sordid class warfare against any Tory…
Anything which is cheap and squalid
Clan warfare against SNP and Welsh Nats…
Criminal defamation at the local level
MCBRIDE showed us just what scum they are
And he was Dirty Tricks Brown’s closest “adviser” in Downing Street
God knows what filth and crime they will get up to at the local level
BE WARNED EVERYONE
Labour will make Mugabe look tame…
You can tell what sort of people we will be up against from the fact that Margaret Moran’s Constituency Party has reselected her.
I hope the electorate have more sense.
It’s a bloody difficult choice though ! Do you vote for Margaret Moran or the even more irritating Esther Ranzten if she stands ? Difficult decision !
Given the choice between Margaret Moran, Esther Rantzen or Monster Raving Looney, I’d go with the Looneys.
If a Lib Dem was standing, I would still go for the Looneys because I don’t want proportional representation which would let in other undesirables.
the thing is ..it wont work ant more…..because everyone (bar that 20 ish% that still think labour is great) knowst that brown is just like mugabe
Sweatshirt arrived. I’m so going to piss-off draper when he comes to Hay.
Too little, too late.
Why are we still to pay their mortgages? Still the ‘get elected get a free house’ con? Reasonable rent or hotel bills I could live with. Mortgage, no.
Line rental, yes. Telephone calls, no. Don’t expect them to pay two line rentals, but the calls would be made regardless.
That’s all I caught. Prescott was chasing my missus around the room, had to distract him with a pot roast. Fat letcherous bastard.
Too little, too late.
Why are we still to pay their mortgages? Still the ‘get elected get a free house’ con? Reasonable rent or hotel bills I could live with. Mortgage, no.
Line rental, yes. Telephone calls, no. Don’t expect them to pay two line rentals, but the calls would be made regardless.
That’s all I caught. Prescott was chasing my missus around the room, had to distract him with a pot roast. Fat letcherous bastard.
454 and 455 both meant to be titled ’speakers statement’. Not my fault I’m drunk.
It was the system.
As a recent convert to the blog can any more seasoned veterans of Guido tell me the reasoning behind ‘Hoon’. I presume its a reference to the legendary Geoff BuffHoon or am I completely wrong?
Welcome . You’ll find it’s a great way to reduce your blood pressure.
Hoon? It’s something to do with our Esteemed Armed Forces and geoff hoon I think, but the more seasoned campaigners on here will no doubt put me right.
I believe it’s a reference to Hoon’s forces nickname during the Iraq war – “TCH” was the acronym, standing for “That C*** Hoon”, since Hoon was directly or indirectly responsible for the lack of armoured vehicles and personal armour in theatre.
It is now used more or less interchangeably with the C word, and Guido’s comment system substitutes the latter with the former, as you will see if you type the name of a Northern seaside town, which may or may not be SHoonthorpe.
He was also referred to as Buff. (Buff Hoon)
So Gordon is not going to get rid of Blears, Darling, Balls from his cabinet.
Well of course not – they are the only supporters within Labour that he has left – if he sacks any of them there is no-one within the Labour Party, well except perhaps Keith Vaz, who will continue to encourage him in his belief that his government has not already crashed.
Jacqui Smith has given herself the perfect get-out from being sacked by him which she surely would, after her porno fiasco, saying she wants to step down as Home Secretary because she needs to concentrate on campaigning in her constituency. She is as deluded as Gordon if she thinks she has any chance of winning the next GE.
You missed the small print – they’ll only go if they “broke the rules” which of course they didn’t !
Precisely, especially as everything was within the rules otherwise they wouldn’t have okayed the expenses. But then with the Speaker writing the rules what do you expect when even outright fraud is within the rules.
Smith will be an ex-MP as soon as Brown has the bottle to call an election.
To paraphrase “The Sun” – ‘It’s the bath plug wot dun it !”
I spy a small silver lining in this cloud – can you imagine how much good it has done to our international image – particularly in erm….culturally and historically challenged parts of the world (you know where I mean – west from here) – the whole planet now thinks that we all live in moated mansions with servants, chandeliers, mock tudor beams ( yeah shame about that bit) and giant flat screen TVs when we’re NOT working and city centre flats when we are. Hooray no more gritty Northern/Chavvy stereotypes.
Don’t you feel better now ?
If any computer game creators read this blog how about Resident Commons Evil 6.The best way to quench my anger is to walk around a virtual Parliament with a 12 bore blasting everything that moves.
It’s a polite substitute for calling somebody a See. You En Tea.
We don’t want any defamation on this site and there was widespread objection from the lady’s private parts that they were being defamed.
If someone gets hold of his constituency address I’ll go find it and take pictures, he’s my local MP. See what our tax money pays for.
As a Scot I am utterly embarrased by the fat porker Martin. His oafish ways and semi literacy are reason enough for him to go. If you rise to the office of Speaker then you should be able to read a statement without sounding like an utter reprobate. I hate the way he takes about five years to say Oooorder!
Mind you at least he had a job before entering politics. There are a number of Scots in the cabinet, Jim “Skeletor” Murphy and wee Dougie who have never held down a real job.
Shop Steward is not a job. It’s an excuse to be a hoon.
I worked at BMW for a bit and the shop stewards were the biggest bunch of useless pillocks going. They allowed the management to get away with everything.
Shop stewards destroyed British Leyland. Who would ahve thought thta they would do the same to Parliament?
I used to work for an MP and I have to say iv never laughed so hard as when I opened a letter from an ex soldier venting his fury at the cost of cleaning Two shags/jags grace and favour pad!
In these uncertain times only a few things can we be sure of.
A Labour meltdown in the Euros will not lead to any action from Brown or his spineless Cabinet, all of whom will survive this scandal. For another 12 months, Brown will be telling us of how HE changed the system with the aim of regaining trust from hard-working families, affected by the American tsunami and for whom doing nothing is not an option.
If Labour gets 20% on a 35% turnout, they’ll have received support from just 1 in 14 of the electorate. What would be lost from a Cameron call for no confidence? Even a loss would be a victory – forcing Labour MPs to vote for themselves, against the will of the people.
I understood the party of the speaker alternated, and Labour broke that alternation with Martin – and now it looks like they’re going to break it again by appointing another one of their own?
Don’t be stupid. What’s the point of being in government if you can’t decide who you want as Speaker ? Anyway the removal of Martin was a Tory inspired plot dreamed up by Douglas Carswell and Quentin Letts because he was a Catholic and a humble Glaswegian Sheet Metal Worker well according to George Ffoulkes who must be the most irritating Labour Peer going and who seems to be continually on every TV station. Almost as bad as the Sainted Vince !!
I am a Catholic by birth (but a realist by experience) and, while I harbour certain vestigal support for Celtic FC, I have no objection to Martin being skinned and used for lampshades. The useless fucking fuck.
500?
Have never heard of Berclow or whatever – and never will!
I bet £500,000 that Frank Field is selected (if he allows his name to go forward)
Now Ball’s,give me some of your food money that you steal from pensioners, to pay for this bet – you grotty gruesome little shit
Oh dear: Hazel Blears is in trouble now.
She’s lost Gordon’s support but he’s going to do fuck all about her.
Strong, decisive leadership right there.
Brown seems to disinguish between people whose behaviour is ‘unacceptable’ (Blears) and ‘totally (then completely) unacceptable’ (Moran). Is this an indication of who will be sacked? Or of who has the worst dirt to dish out on him?
Guido
What has happened to the Hoon flippers story? Has someone shoved an injunction where the sum don’t shine or are you lagging?
We’ve just got rid of one birk – another birk oh no.
If Labour are proposing Bercow with spectacular expenses claims like that then you can be sure it is under tactical orders from Brown. Alright lads, our troughing, partisan, incompetent placeman has been outed. Let’s stick one of theirs in there to balance it up.
That’ll give us a nine month run up swooning about our idiot, incompetent troughing TORY Speaker.
Perhapsthis Bercow chap is a decent, upright chap and I’m doing hima disservice but I can’t believe Brown would propose anybody from the Tories that wasn’t guaranteed to blow up in their face.
My thoughts exactly. Bercow would be a disaster.
Can’t we expect something similar for our troughing MPs??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5350857/Chief-executive-jailed-for-2.4-million-fraud.html
What happened in 2005/6 – was he off sick?
Because he’s a hoon and the membership of FCS should have strung him up 20-odd years ago?
Because he’d look silly in the Speakers Chair? They’d have to put in a booster seat, or replace it with a high chair …
Because it’s the Tories’ turn?
Time for the Anyone But Bercow campaign
One of my very own nulabourites is also joint first in the ALA league one Dr Ashok Kumar.
Let’s not rule him out of the running for king trougher.
The public should vote for the next Speaker, not the incumbent bunch of thieving, lying, duplitious crooks
Why not look at the full picture with his expenses?
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/john_bercow/buckingham
Rather than just the single line that shows him joint 1st?
Total £103,436 (631st) £123,269 (524th) £132,047 £126,179 (274th) £124,057 (223rd) £123,668 (92nd) £103,015 (56th)
Because the Telegraph has only got one spreadsheet.
I just can’t find the snap I have of Jerkoff berkcow with a chap at an FCS “do” wearing a hung nelson mandela t shirt… Bloody Daily keeps moving stuff I’m sure she works for MI5… I’m hope Harry F has kept a copy handy ring the daily telegraph and ask him !! O and don’t get me onto the Contras at the Barbican…
O yes this man would make a fine speaker…
Has Bercow any track record on the ‘cash-for-questions’ issue.
By which is meant: Has he taken cash (or benefits in kind) for questions?