Picture: Smashed Commons Window
Commons co-conspirators report this morning that the broken windows near Strangers’ Bar certainly weren’t broken this time yesterday:
The now suspended Major Joyce (Education Corp) must have put up quite a struggle…
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Sun says…
“Why doesn’t George Osborne just get a box of matches, set fire to his Budget and start all over again?”
Make sure Joyce pays for the repiar, not the taxpayer!
Is it something to do with the Keynesian’s plans for smashing up stuff, just to give someone else work fixing it?
He should be defenestrated.
I blame the availability of cheap alcohol, if prices were higher this sort of
thing wouldn’t happen
Joyce was the first MP to break the £200K barrier for a year’s expenses. You don’t seriously think he’ll pay for the damage himself, do you?
Hopefully it was his head that broke the glass.
Perhaps he/they (the Brawlers) should be charged with (inter alia) affray & criminal damage ….. and punished with a Compessation Order (among other punishments), since defenestration seems to have been abolished after the Scottish Reformation
D’you mean he should have his lights punched out as well?
A lot of cats posting here. We’re smarter than dogs. Good work!
You get suspended from the Labour party for punching a gay – but not a voter, ask Mr Prescott.
How did you guess?
Eric Joyce the man who puts the bar in bastard.
Goddamn no-class limey lush, staggering around like some kinda goofball bum beat on nembies… If he’da been loaded on an ‘M’ and bennie speedball, waving a snubbie .38 inna air, wearing a muy correcto homburg – tight around the head, you dig – Idda had some respect for the guy. It’s people like this that give us old spectral pederast junkies a bad name…
It says ‘Scot’ on the cardboard…
“toilet rolls”?
Bastiat was unable to comment on whether this would help the economy.
However, James Q. Wilson, when reached for comment, offered the observation that, if you repair the window immediately, it will represent a commitment to maintaining good social order in the Westminster community, and other miscreants will not be emboldened to commit similar or worse offences, thus holding down lawlessness in general and making the community more livable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Yes, if they don’t fix that window pronto, it will only encourage further bar brawls, perhaps even MPs spraying graffiti. Or so the theory goes.
Alcopocalypse
I don’t see 4 men on four horses, but there seem to be a lot of impulsive and stupid peole in the HoC
Debt-drunk Labour vandalised the economy, now Joyce attacks parliament.
I hope he is made to pay.
If yee genne get wasted on Buckfast what canny expect man?
Eat up your porridge like a good boy
From his Wiki page:
He left the army in 1999, amid controversy after describing the armed forces as “racist, sexist and discriminatory.”
Bloody pansy.
Should have been court marshalled, for conduct predudical to good order and military discipline, disobeying a lawful order. A squadie would have been straight into Colchester military prison but him being a very poor specimen of an officer was just kicked out. There again Colchester prison has standards to maintain and he would lower the tone of that fine establishment.
As it was, presumably his Army references were so poor that the only job he could find was as a Labour MP.
How sad labour has become a club for thugs and thieves.
A long way from the labour party that was founded 100+ years ago to fight for the rights of real working folks.
Be fair – in between the army and being an MP he was a “Public Affairs Officer” at the Scottish Commission for Racial Equality (!)
Quintessential Labour Party material – a life largely free of accomplishments, which has been financed in its entirity by the taxpayer.
Is it any wonder everything goes completely tits-up whenever this shower of seat-fillers, box-tickers and meeting-attenders gets into government?
http://www.maxfarquar.com/2012/02/eric-joyce-wikipedia/
an earlier entry on his wikipedea page
What does an mp have to do to be suspended not just from his party but also from the HoC?
Horatio Bottomley in 1922 and Peter Baker in 1954, & Garry Allighan in 1947.
Horatio Bottomley, the independent MP for Hackney South, was a serial fraudster who was served with 66 bankruptcy writs during his life.
Peter Baker was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment after forging signatures on letters purporting to guarantee debts when his companies ran into financial difficulties.
Garry Allighan gave information to the newspapers about private parliamentary party meetings, often in return for money, publicity or free drinks
Effectively, it’s anything that leads to a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.
So, they have to really try hard to get forciby kicked out!
Great politician and socialist hero Eric Joyce was goaded to defend himself against several members of the scum nasty Tory party in the Strangers bar last night. As these vile Tories drank their subsidised beer, our great HERO Eric Joyce arrived in the bar where the sight of these scummy Tories having a good time was too much to stomach for a brave men like our Eric.
Eric who is a war hero sprung into action to defend the great socialist cause. The nasty right wing vermin then called their Gestapo Police who took Eric still struggling to uphold the great socialist cause away where no doubt he will be brutalised by the capitalist thugs.
Nope, unconvincing. D-
Far too balanced – you did not mention ‘Tory cuts’ once. Back to the drawing board.
or Coulson, or Murdoch.
Or even Ashcroft.
Great politician and socialist hero Eric Joyce was goaded to defend himself against several members of the scum nasty Tory party in the Strangers bar last night. As these vile Tories drank their subsidised beer celebrating those MASSIVE CUTS, our great HERO Eric Joyce arrived in the bar where the sight of these scummy Tories having a good time was too much to stomach for a brave men like our Eric.
Eric who is a war hero sprung into action to defend the great socialist cause and FIGHT THOSE EVIL TORY CUTS. The nasty right wing vermin then called their Gestapo Police who took Eric still struggling to uphold the great socialist cause away where no doubt he will be brutalised by the capitalist thugs. The Labour party would NEVER have an MP arrested in the House of Commons, that’s not the sort of thing the beloved Labour party do.
Hi Toenails.
We concur and would like to add that it was a Tory MP at the end of the bar eating a baby that triggered him off.
We would just like to add……Margaret Thatcher.
Ooooooo that was nasty… but it’s always her fault innit, like
Ah, they are just so respectful. Lets try cutting their pay by half, maybe that will make a difference, oh yeah, I forgot, we are all in it together, that means us first.
Let’s hope that Labour actually take some action over this – a simple apology to the House is insufficient.
To be fair , they have suspeneded him until police invesigation is done.
Not much more they could do?
call for anal rape in his prison cell
What like Andy Coulson where the mong bandwagon Ed kept on and on at Cameron.
I haven’t heard mong Ed say anything about Joyce yet and what is to prove, he did it.
hopefully he fell down the stairs 5 or 6 times before viciously thrusting his head through that window!
I have £10 for anyone who can prove he used those immortal words in his defence, “Don’t you know who I am?”
It will got to Charity if you can provide proof.
What about “you know where to find me”
He asked for it
fucking soft labour shite. call that damage? shoulda went out shooting and took a few rozzas with im
Dear “Dave”,
It looks like the problems of Cheap Booze and binge drinking need to be solved rather closer to home before rolling the nanny state out over the rest of us.
Thank-you and Fuck-off.
AC1
+1000
Put the price of drinks us to double that outside to stimulate the very local economy.
Guido, in the context of the military, you mean Education Corps (with an “s” on the end) and not Corp, as in News Corporation.
Quite…and that Fabian tit had no place in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. That is a place for people that can hold their ale and laugh at their situation safe in the knowledge that their pleats face inwards and their welts have been cleaned correctly. Standards, dear boy.
I hope they give the c*nt the repair bill, that’s my heritage he’s destroying.
Why doesn’t he go and smash up the Scottish parliament. Only English MPs should be able to smash up Westminster
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………………..grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………………aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………………….gggggggggggg..rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………………………………….
Too many s t e r o i d s.
I thought Dave was going to crack down on booze at giveaway prices. Let’s start with the subsidised bars in the Commons and give the taxpayer a break. Eric Joyce is not fit for office.
…it’s on film – a green pass researcher got the lot on his mobile! Wait for the Sun on Sunday…
perhaps he took bung from Sun on Sunday to give them their first scoop
What a twat this Mr Joyce is, if he was that paralytically drunk he should have done the right thing and gotten into his car and driven home.
What?
Again?
“gotten” …??
I trust he will be barred.
The man should resign and a bye-election held, that will see how loyal the Labour vote is.
He should be barred… from every bar in the country.
Unfortunately an act like this will not influence Labour tribal followers. Even if he committed murder, his replacement would still get in.
20 years of bribing the electorate with public sector and union jobs, as well as “generous” (Polly Toynbee statement this morning on BBC Toady Programme) benefits will not go away quickly.
Add in the sustained poverty, immigration flooding, and degraded education system “up north and in inner cities” and Labour’s Soviet style control policies will ensure their activists keep in check that their followers will never undertake any real logical thinking.
But he is alleged to have punched a Labour MP, too. Equal ops thug?
Scottish man in violent, dr*nken rampage shocker.
What a twat this Mr Joyce is, if he was that paralytically dr.unk he should have done the right thing and gotten into his car and driven home.
If these are broken windows “near” the strangers bar, doe it mean eric was resisting police arrest?
If so then the charges could be a lot more serious than head butting A Tory, especially if he put a plod into the window and probably explains why he is still in police custody.
I wonder if he took a swing at a copper. Assaulting a police officer is an even more serious offence.
It took five coppers to pin him down and put cuffs on him but he still managed to smash the glass door on the way out.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24037762-mp-arrested-over-commons-bar-brawl.do
Why is assaulting a police officer any more serious than assaulting any other person? Who died and made the police so fucking special?
Sting
Do you mean that head butting a Tory would be seen in a court of law as mitigating circumstances?.
What a twat this Mr Joyce is, if he was that paralytically wankered he should have done the right thing and gotten into his car and driven home.
What a imbecile this Mr Joyce is, if he was that para lytically wankered he should have done the right thing and gotten into his car and dri ven his own way home.
What, like he does any other time?
He could have got lift with Huhne – might have got home quicker
It is to be hoped that Mr Joyce will reimburse the public purse for the damage caused and that he doesn’t reclaim it on his expenses.
As for prosecution, I fear he’ll get away with it and he won’t have to resign because his behaviour doesn’t bring the House into disrepute as it is disreputable already
A Labour MP was dragged away in handcuffs after going berserk in a House of Commons bar and headbutting a fellow MP.
Ex-Army major Eric Joyce hit at least three MPs, including a Labour whip, in a rage last night when they tried to calm him, it was claimed.
“There was blood spilled – it was like the
Wild West in there,” said one stunned MP.
Police were called but it apparently took five Commons security officers to restrain Mr Joyce, 51.
A glass door was smashed as they dragged him away, still struggling. The MP for Falkirk was taken to Belgravia police station, where he spent the night and was still being held today.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24037762-mp-arrested-over-commons-bar-brawl.do
He forgot the third rule of HoC Fight Club. Only one fight at a time!
Can Joyce be done for Criminal Damage as well?
Was there a woman shouting: “Don’t do it, Eric! He ain’t worth it!”?
Labour MP’s love to play smash and grab.
Don’t hold your breath he’ll get off scot free.
Having been to a few work occasions where drunken behaviour got out of hand I note that it inevitable ended up in sackings?
Will this alcoholic cnut get the boot? It’s less than 18 months since he got done for drink-driving and failing to provide a breath test. He is unfit to be an MP (although not untypical of MP’s in general).
Perhaps before wishy-washy iDave starts berating the general population on their drinking habits he should deal with the drinking culture in Parliament.
People in glass houses……
2010
Labour Eric Joyce 23,207 45.7 -5.2
SNP John McNally 15,364 30.3 +8.9
Conservative Katie Mackie 5,698 11.2 +1.3
Liberal Democrat Kieran Leach 5,225 10.3 -5.7
SNP win on the cards?
PS 5,698 Tories in Falkirk?
He could stay on as an independent. Or form his own party – the Scottish Pugilists or sumfink.
after filling in 5690 ballot papers my hand got sore
Lightweight.
String the gay basher up…and that Ken Livingstone.
That’s hate crime that is. He could go down for a long time if found guilty.
he must of drunk cheap cider before he entered commons bar
oh wait—the commons bar cider is cheaper
tut tut tut 200 years of heratige to be treat in such a manner.
Another useless Scottish Labour MP in London drunk & disorderly. The English should insist that the number of Scottish MPs & Welsh come to that should be halved in number. They have their own Parliaments now so they aren’t needed or wanted here. The sooner we get rid of this lot the better!
Should have “Tasered” the Bugger !!
35 minutes ago: “If you have phone-video of last nights fracas in Stangers, we have cash, email Guido.Fawkes@Order-Order.com”
you would think someone in bar would—but maybe all to pissed
Didn’t Eric Joyce also broadcast for Hitler in the war?
haw haw
in a pedantic mood … No that was William Joyce
Perhaps it is time for a dry Palace of Westminster.
Eric Joyce, punch drunk.
Aye, yecunye hees wan wi thu heed ye toree bassad.
hic !
there are some enjoyable comments on the army rumour website http://www.arrse.co.uk about this former private in the Black Watch
“former Major Education Corps” didn’t go with drunken brawling…
but a former “Private Black Watch” – now THAT makes sense
Send him round to our city — we haven’t had a good glass -break since 1724 ( had many wind breaks though ) .
The famous defenestration in Prague occurred in 1618 and started the 30 years war.
“One woman MP, Thurrock Tory Jackie Doyle-Price, stepped bravely between Mr Joyce and the fracas.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Doyle-Price
Hmm. Probably not…
This is politically motivated violence, a direct attack on our democracy.
Thats a minimum life term.
Well done that man.
Ha! An advert about windows — top quality vinyl windows! — is now showing at the top of my screen, above the story.
The reason MPs have too much time for boozing is that 80% of their work is done for them in Brussels.
Pay for the damage Retard!
I am surprised he didn’t whack Jackie Doyle-Price as well ?!
A good number of years ago but this guy has form for hitting women as well ?!
Check it out I am sure you will all find it.
Scumbag of the highest order.