News is breaking that Michael Crockart, LibDem member for Edinburgh West, and PPS to Scotland Secretary Michael Moore is the first to resign over the tuition-fees vote.
Given the unknown-man status of even his boss, it is thought at this stage the Coalition will survive.
Osborne Gets His Soundbite | Nick Robinson
Moonbat V Chomsky | Charles Crawford
Beecroft is “S**t” | LibDem MP
News of the World Trailed Watson’s Mistaken Mistress | Indy
Shabana Mahmood MP Saves Brum Market | ITV News
Plan a Velvet Divorce for the €uro | Gideon Rachman
Truth About Romney’s Bain “Vampire Capitalism” | Wall Street Journal
Clegg’s Revenge | Nick Wood
Cleaning Out Stables | Biased BBC
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Norman Tebbit has a humble brag:
“We Maastricht rebels were derided and abused for opposing the single currency by the wise, clever, Guardianista soft centre left establishment from whom we now hear so little on the matter.”
Mr Bryant and Mr Watson managing to make the whole hacking affair look like a farce – the more they moan the less I care about the whole subject! So partisan it beggars belief at all costs. They cannot rise above it ! If I was to call the PM a ‘liar’ I would want to be VERY sure.
Stupid fucker. Doesn’t even affect his constituents.
Caption Comp: Point to the Jeremy !
PWNED!!!
*chortle* Eh bah Gum, eet be roight grande in Chunkie land
We are not amused…
Exactly, his constituents don’t pay Tuition Fees because the English pay for them. Why doesn’t he just butt out of an English matter just like those unprincipled has beens Charles ‘Dipso’ Kennedy and Menzies ‘Zimmer’ Campbell.
Barnett consequentials: cut in English funding = cut in Scottish funding.
+, as there are many English students in Scotland, Higher Education is a cross border issue.
He looks like a victorian piano leg perv
I thought PPS was an unpaid position. The little twerp has given up nothing exept unpaid work for a moment’s fame.
poof?
As no-one’s heard of the blighter or his boss let us mourn instead the loss to politics of a most spectacular 1970s-era moustache.
Looks like he just been munching a Jeremy
Looks more the sort who munches arse to me.
It probably still is 1976 in Edinburgh West.
Micheal who and Michael who?
What a mug.
He seems to me to have principles and having signed that pledge, is standing by his commitment.
Kudos.
Seeming to be the oddball here, so I should stress that I’m no Lib-Dem nor related to Gordon (so like to think that I have all my marbles). Just approving that somebody is principled enough to uphold his promises, and just because he is an MP that is under the radar, that does not alter the fact that he is not a Cable-ditherer, push-me-pull-you..
Very easy promise to make – given that he’s Scotch.
Can I come back? I’m not shitting you.
Could you shit on me?
Forgive me for asking, how many of his Consitituents will be hit by the measure?
Perhaps he is one of Kennedy’s glove puppets.
You saying Chaz is fisting him?
I reshemble that remark. Hic !
Why is he able to vote on something that only affects England. And, did he consult his constituents before he made his decision? Who is he representing?
MPs represent very few people.
Our Michael steeled his mighty mind
Gritted his molars and resigned.
How sad for his heroic pose
The headline “Only Crockart Goes”!
I’m coming back!!!!
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
————————-
A number of Gordon Brown’s colleagues now believe the time is right for him to play a more prominent Westminster role.
One backbencher told The Herald: “It’s time he came back. He’s a big beast and has much to offer.”
Another Scottish colleague said that Mr Brown had quite understandably been keeping a low profile following the election defeat and had, admirably, been concentrating on constituency work, but that he had personally been trying to persuade him to spend more time at Westminster.
A third Labour MP described the former premier as “a great talent” and said colleagues were trying to persuade him to return to the cut and thrust of Westminster politics, adding: “There is a mood to draw him back into the family. The longer he stays away, the more difficult it will be for him to continue.
“We understand that it’s difficult for him because he was smashed flat, but there is still a great warmth towards Gordon and an effort is going on to draw him back in.”
Another Labour MP said: “I would not be surprised if in the New Year we see more of him. It’s difficult because he does not want to overshadow the work of Ed Mliband. Anything he does say can be misinterpreted, so he has to be careful.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/labour-mps-urge-brown-to-play-fuller-westminster-role-1.1072627
With his book out tomorrow expect a plethora of stories on the BBC attacking the coalition with cliches aplenty from the Mentalist
Top story tomorrow on the BBC:
The coalition cuts will endanger the UK
“Gordon Brown was NOT to blame for the UK economy plunging into crisis, a new book claims today.”
“In a new book published today, Gordon Brown reveals that the deficit has increased under the coalition and Britain faces a depression from which it may never recover.”
In a new book published every other day, by the late but saddly not lamented Gordon of Cartoon, said “I’m sorry I can.t help I,m very depressed some fucker from somewhere else has left the country in a mess”.
In the sense that he was only following orders I suppose not
He would have very little problem overshadowing Ed Miliband.
Yes, what sort of big beast, exactly? Perhaps a Giant Ground Sloth, Megalonyx Jeffersonii.
“We understand that it’s difficult for him because he was smashed flat,…..”
typo, should read
“We understand that it’s difficult for him because he smashed his flat,…..”
Who are all these nameless MPs showing ‘warmth’ to Brown?
Also, why does the whip not insist that the turns up for ‘work’?
He’d be sacked in any other job.
The day release terms at Broadmoor must be too onerous even for the former Prime Mentalist.
Broadmoor is for convicted criminals. Putting Gordon inside before he is condemned would be a bit rich even for Jack Straw.
We need a much bigger wall
Aye, We’ll do a grand job for you Mr Hadrian. It’ll keep those thieving southern bankers where they belong – south.
Quite.
Like RBS and HBOS you mean?
So, here is a man who didn’t come into politics to make a difference, but to pose and preen?
A libdem then
It will still make 25 mins on Al-Beeba WatO though!!
I think it is called taking a principled stance but don’t you worry your wee head about such fanciful things Guido.
A politician with morals?
Don’t be daft !!
Crock o’ what ??
Bye Bye you useless Hunt!
Pathetic – man is worried about Lib Dem Scottish Parliament seat for next May. They have no balls at all. I dont support tuition fees but if you are in government you have to have the balls to see off a bunch of trots and students.
We’ve already given virtual self-government to the Caledonian hordes north of Hadrian’s wall, so that they can flagellate themselves with socialist cant and taxpayer-funded largesse while they beg for our money.
So why the hell do we even have a Scotland Secretary and his pimping little bag-carrier/arse-wiper of a PPS on the Westminster payroll anyway?
You can send him back north – if you keep Gordon.
Simples … eet is so impotent English Parliament can still pretend it has an evil empire likes my boss Mr Pootin.
A real loss to democracy.
The thick as shit students in Edinburgh do not pay for their fees, the tax payer does. Students are vermin and Edinburgh is over run with soap dodgers who never do any work. Hate the fucking place.
You are just saying that to be nice.
The ENGLISH tax payer pays.
Does that mean he is foregoing his pension, his perks and the ‘normal’ redundancy pay-off these ‘hoonarabe’ gentlemen pick up ?? If so, I’m impressed.
Can’t spell ‘hoonarable’.
PPS’s are unpaid
Thanks for the ‘heads up’. Thought he was resigning his seat. So just a token gesture, like refusing to be milk monitor any more.
That’s the most bummingest ‘tache ever.
Excellent. Apparently, that prat Norman Baker is also going ‘against’ – even better news.
How can a serious political party be, apparently, splitting four ways? That plus a dangerous pervy Ruskie-lover.
FFS.
When you are all things to all men, as the Lib Dim’s are, you can face as many ways as you like and still be consistent. The problem is, in government, you can’t.
Not fair, you guys. Michael Crockart is known as a hard worker and principled. That silly moustache pic was for the Movember charity. Not his hand, either.
Don’t slag off someone for caring about UK-wide education, you dicks.
Bollocks.
‘Caring about UK-wide education’. FFS.
‘caring about UK wide education’
Priceless, you sum up the ridiculous party precisely. By caring what you really mean is increasing tax, except that does not sound so nice and fluffy does it? BTW, public debt is still rising by £3billion a week, but hey Lib Dims don’t ‘care’ about serious stuff like debt, do they?
What do you mean, ‘UK-wide education’? WTF is that? And he ‘cares’ about it? So fucking what?
Yeah and no doubt all the Lib Dem wimmin grew taches as well.
Further, Ming Campbell’s soap dodgers do not pay fees for their elitist education either. Twats!
off topic but assuming that Guido is staying clear of the wikileaks info… comments on here are not limited…whilst I am in favour of freedom of information surely today’s disclosures of key sites across the globe can
only potentially damage us all. Terrorist groups having such data must
be a concern to all.
Bollocks.
Just use the list that our own MOD used when they attacked Iraq.
Where do you arseholes get off?
The stupid man is only drawing attention to the fact that the students in his constituency do not pay fees. It is unfair that only English students pay fees, the rest of them must start paying.
Has the BBC just been spoofed live on World at One? They introduced an interview with Michael Crockart. The speaker sounded a bit manic and spoke in a Scouse accent, which is odd as Crockart was born and educated in Scotland and sits for a Scottish seat. Is this a Guy Kewney moment?
Apparently yes! It’s all over twitter that the guy was an imposter. Radio 4 is a laughing stock.
I see Norman (I’m a cock-smoker) Baker is threatening to jump ship. Hopefully the custard will spend more time here in Lewes, I am sure he won’t mind the ocasional dog turd thrown in his letter box.
…the letter box that Norman Baker MP rents at market rate from… Mr. Norman Baker and charges to expenses. Allegedly.
If the coalition collapses will there be an instant general election? This must be what the tories want then, with the libdems inevitable knifing of Betrayin’ Nick Clegg and liebours civil war hotting up…
I hope so.
The LibDems will be blasted from the political map forever when the next GE takes place.
Ian Rush, a lib-dem?
Bum-rush, a Lib-Dem?
thanks to the economy growing faster than thought it means more English people can keep us scotch spongers in the manner we have been getting used to, oh and thanks for the cheaper prescriptions and the money for the buckfast
slange
ps can you work some overtime as i plan on going into currys at the weekend with my crisis loan so i can install that nice new 3D tv for my sky box in the bedroom, ive spent all my money on christmas presents for the 9 kids i have with 4 girlfriends , dont worry im awf the methadone now
Julian Huppert MP for Cambridge (LD) has publicly expressed his intention to vote against any plans to raise tution fees. A local LD activist, Jonathan Chatfield, is campaigning for a scrapping of tuition fees. He has written to The Minister for Universites – Conservative MP David Willetts – calling on him to cancel government plans to raise the cap on tuition fees.
Commenting on the plans Jonathan said: “The scrapping of tuition fees is a key Liberal Democrat policy. However, we need ot accept that we did not win May’s general election so we are unable to enact every Lib Dem policy”.
Perhaps he should write to Vince Cable for clarification as to whether this is or is not LD policy.
It appears that the BBC interviewed someone who was not Mike Crockart MP!
That was a cunning stunt played on the BBC.
The MP was unknown to the BBC and so according to politicalbetting.com an imposter gave them a “resignation” interview.
Mike Cockheart surely. Or is he an old crock?
BBC Suckered. They didnt notice that
1 the number was in Yorkshire not Scotland – “well dearie once you get past Watford Gap who knows” and
2 he had a broad Yorkshire accent not so common in the Lowlands
Guido, you should post up a CORRECTION
The BBC cock up’s a much more interesting story than the supposed resignation ever was.