Clegg’s Reforms are a Mess
Nick Clegg’s reform packages are not going very well. Obviously AV is still a sore subject in yellow circles and the prospect of two year battle over House of Lords reform is even being discouraged by Guardian columnists. The Recall bill seems to be an irrelevance too. Zac Goldsmith is slamming it this morning:
Here’s the process; once the narrow Committee has qualified an MP for Recall, the petition begins, and requires only 10% of voters to sign it. Given that the MP will effectively have been deemed guilty by Parliament, that threshold will pose little challenge. The MP then faces an immediate by-election where they must fight in the context of national issues and where they are dependent on their Party’s fortunes. Unlike in true Recall, where MPs face a simple referendum on their job, under the Government’s plans, they have no chance to persuade voters that the Recall is unwarranted. This gives real power to the authorities to throw inconvenient MPs to the wolves for spurious reasons.
It says something when even Tory MPs are accusing you of not being radical enough. Guido can’t think why Nick Clegg, in his student-filled constituency, would possibly want to water anything down…
Democracy at its best.
Hi!
I’m very very wealthy you kno, – and I owe it all to NooLieBore – and to Cherry, – who is very thrifty wiv the housekeeping!
But I called by mainly to say that the problem nowadays is that politicians are NOT SINCERE – LIKE WHAT I WAS
Anyway, – must move on, another Union Leader wants to join my bank – providing he’s wealthy enough!
And you know, I’m VERY wealthy, – and yes I can do anything!
No amount of money can make people like you.
Ha ha.
Ambiguity detected!
Just get rid of the EU fanatical turd. Look at David Laws, never referred to the police for false accounting. Clegg was going to clean up politics, why did he not have the courage to refer Laws to the police??
Thoughtful, considered, grown up law making instead of third place tutting, posturing and finger wagging is proving more difficult than the Yellow Rosettes have ever thought.
The scrutiny of being in office has already claimed the scalps of Laws and Huhne. Only Danny Alexander appears to be doing an outstanding job, while Vince Cable is proving a pain to work with, Michael Moore keeps losing staff and has been runover by Scottish Independence while Davey is invisible.
Clegg is left struggling with the reality that even after the current cuts the UK is spending £450 million more than it earns EVERY DAY.
I get the feeling Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and Alexander are less focused on any reforms as they are more worried about insulating the UK from the imminent collapse of the Eurozone Government Bond market.
Nothing this loser does, surprises me! He’ only there by a fluke and the patronage on Cameron. Sack him now.
and have you seen his ‘team’ in the cabinet office – full of wankers everyone of them – even my mp is there, although never scene in parliament and never seen in his constituency I’m beginning to wonder exactly what the fuck he does
Why are we surprised by this ? Clegg is clueless and one braincell short of a fuckwit. he hasn’t got the intelligence to put together this simple task.
What does that make me then? He is far more educated and intelligent than me. The only thing Nick and I have in common is lots of students and immigrants in our constituencies. I hope to god this recall of MP’s idea never becomes law. Boaz.
So basically the recall is being designed so that the Parliamentary elite can get rid of inconvenient MPs instead of so that constituents can get rid of bad MPs.
This is even worse than no recall at all. I can see the day coming when MPs are recalled for having the temerity to represent the views of the constituents who voted them into office.
Exactly.
But what else would we expect of them?
too tru
it’s in their customer service pack that claims, vigorously, that the customer is always right except them.
An “irreverence”? Perhaps you mean an “irrelevance”? Please employ a sub, Guido. This is also good advice for the MailOnline catalogue of howlers.
No, irreverence fits very well, think on it.
what’s a ‘sub’
substitute?
submarine?
subversionist?
sub-aquatic?
subordinate?
submissive?
…….
Students. Need to water down their vodka.
Otherwise they are useless for the entire next day. or two.
It should have been me. I would have made a great deputy to Cameron…..
Turkeys do not vote for Christmas
I would like to vote for this turkey at Easter.
Is this possible?
what what what what what what !
I heard that
The results of every general election suggests that they do. The UK electorate consistently votes for parties that are dedicated to hurting the UK and bending over backwards to serve a profoundly anti-democratic foreign entity.
Whilst the only parties dedicated to serving the people of the UK are left floundering as “minority” parties.
The turkeys DO vote for Christmas every fucking election!
Sad, but true.
OK let us try this one “there are none so blind as those who will not see”
(particularly if they are a mad one eyed scottish socialist)
This all sounds a bit dodgy to me.
I think the last system was much much better. Scrap this nonsense about five year fixed terms cut constituencies from 650 to 500 with boundary commissioners to be elected from a random selection from the electoral roll.
Salaries to be performance related to the unemployment figure. Subsidized food in the canteen to be stopped. All Mps to have a fixed annual expense allowance plus an Ipad.
And a revolver
and a glass of whiskey my man surely?
Why stop at 500,as most of our laws come from Brussels we probable need 200 MPs.Also make their pensions money purchase schemes. Then they might understand what QE does too pension funds.
“fixed expense allowance” would just be a higher salary?
Get rid of the Scottish MP’s sitting in Westminster.
They have their own parliament.
I second that!
And me!
…. and they should all go to work naked!!!
Expenses should only relate to the job in question – ie. travel food and accommodation for the duration of the trip. Anything else should be refused. Let them pay out of their own pockets for furniture, TV’s, cleaners, bath plugs and anything else which isn’t covered by travel and accommodation. We’d save millions.
Is Clegg starting to go bald too?
No, – it’s called a brazillian.
Cleggs reforms a mess?
What about the Arch-Bishop of dumbing down, a Mr Ebdon, Vice chancellor of Beds Poly, Luton Branch being given the job of making up for 40 years of Spartism in state education instead of giving the poor wretches a crack at a decent education.
Pure Shite! Cameron and Gove should hang their heads in shame if this travesty goes through!
No, not just their heads, – that can come later. For now though, just hang the f*ckers, – VERY HIGH!
The Olympic ticket Fiasco continues they refuse to tell anyone where the tickets were allocated despite repeated requests from sky news and other media
this is LOCOG a private company that has had 2 billion of our money and no one can find out who the tickets were given to even after a freedom of information request !
somebody has pocketed a fortune from this farce , I wonder who ?
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Why doesn’t Call me Dave stay the fuck away from sweaty sock land ?
It’s a nation of fried mars bar munching Labour scum so anything Posh boy says ,they will do the exact opposite
He is scottish you know – by the odd rules of celtic nations having a dad born there makes you really exceptionally scottish.
Independence for England.
And let’s have back the billions we paid to bail out bankrupt Scottish banks.
What happens if, like me, one has a Scots grandfather and an Irish grandfather? Split personality? Dual nationality? Two pensions?
You are Patrick Stewart and I claim my fried chocolate bar.
He wants rid of the Celts, he just can’t say so because if did the contrary (chippy) nature of the jocks and the boyos would lead them to vote to stay in the Union. Without the Welsh and Scottish MP’s, Labour would never get back in to Westminster. Thats why “Ed” Milliband is so against the breakup.
Just use your majority to vote us out of the Union now please.
We do not want to hold you English back any longer.
Mr assistant spare PM seems to have a lot of power for the money he’s paid to keep Camoron in power, I’m still trying to figure out who won the last general election, the Uconned us or the Libshites, every time I look at the news it seems one Libshite or another pops up and tells us what new piece crap legislation they are shoving through the system
I think and hope the heavy lifting is done in private. Trying to keep the loony Libs in line would be a full time job.
Throughout his campaign Zac Goldsmith promised faithfully, on numerous occasions, that he would only serve one term and that he had no intention whatsoever of ever standing again. His views are irrelevant.
Anyone know the gossip on the Caroline Spelman injunction?
Everyone will know soon- thanks to the superinjunction.
If they’d just ignored it, no-one would be interested.
Can I play with your wuggerby ball please
i want to play a game of wugger for England .
I want to play on the wing.
I will be a wonderul wuggerby wugger wingman for Wingland.
Please dont tell my mum.
I am a mowrii from the Jungly Book.
If…………
What a shambles the LibDems have been in government. How disappointing.
This was their moment in the sun to prove they could be something more than a lobbying group. Instead they’ve proved they are very much less.
Useless almost comical if they weren’t so tragic.
Only disappointing if you had any expectations of them in the first place. I think the word(s) should be “How fully expected”!
Just like to say to Alex Salmond , give us a referendum and we will help you say goodbye to us English forever, but stop looking like the snake oil salesman you are, otherwise your Sottish referendum will fail..
Fail? God forbid. Time the Scots went off on their own and the Barnett Formula was binned.
I agree Nell , we English must help the Scots get away from the English yolk and send them on the wild seas of freedom, besides they go we get rid of Liebour a few more pushes we will get rid of the Libshites, even more of a push we can get rid of the lefty political party of Camorons.
Got egg on your face there pal. The word is yoke (like what goes round the neck of a ploughing buffalo or a millstone round England’s).
Oh FFS grow up.
There is something very dodgy about Salmond. He reminds me of a double glazing salesman.
Tinkerbell says
1 . Scotland will have less influence in the world.
Good . Scotland has always been a small insular country with no claims to any territory other than its own.
2. Scotland will lose the protection of the UK armed forces.
Good because we will not be contributing to an antiquated imperial war machine .
We are capable of making our own defence arrangements either within the Eu or further afield. We could negotiate for our own safety security pacts with other countries such as USA Russia or Iran to name but three.
3. Scotland will lose the pound.
Last week the Daily Telegraph claimed that the Bank of Scotland was still a strong brand and should be sold off by the RBS.
Let the serious debating begin boys and girls.
Huhne and Price in court this morning !
Bout feckin time !
Meanwhile Denis McShane is on Russia TV as usual.
In the photo of Clegg is he removing his syrup?
Looking for his brain.
When I was 17 and on my school rugby team, I did NOT go out with, nor sleep with a 15 year old girl, and my mother did NOT try and cover up the fact that I clearly DID NOT. Honest guv!
If you did not
Why not ?
When roses are ready for picking
When girls are sixteen and so on…
You make allegations of illegal behaviour in my Court .
I am referring the matter to the police
I want the Tip Staff present throughout this hearing
Tip staff? What has circumcision got to do with this?
Thank goodnness for that
We will be able to continue to trough our way for years now
Thank God those Lib Dems are so incompetent
Gorbals
Gerbils, surely?
He’s Scotch so the word is garbles or gabbles – just like the BBC news readers/reporters.
If anyone wanted an example of how our party political system is utterly failing to connect with the electorate, or to create even a straightforward set of rules this is it.
Just about the only things you can guarantee with out parliamentary clowns these days is that they will put thier own interests first and fuck it up for everyone else in the process.
Sometimes I wish we really did have a 21st century Guido Fawkes…