Is this the next Speaker of the House of Commons?

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Is this the next Speaker of the House of Commons?

By The Voice | Sun 21st June 2009 - 1:27 am

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5 Comments

Simon 21st Jun '09 - 1:39am

I truly hope not
Jock 21st Jun '09 - 1:59am

They don’t need a Speaker. They need a liquidator just to wind up all business before we abolish them by boycotting the next election.
Lonely Wonderer 21st Jun '09 - 9:10am

QT clip seems a bit unfair: MP accused of being on the take. Defends claims. Answer ignored and accusation repeated with increasing vehemence.

The Telegraph also today reports Beckett claimed £11k for gardening over 7 years. Again apparently within the rules at the time, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

Of course if Beckett did nothing to help those who (like the LibDems) have been trying to reform these rules then she deserves to be criticised for that. But the rest of this has a witch-hunting whiff to it that doesn’t seem to be entirely fair-play.
oldrightie 21st Jun '09 - 10:20pm

Said it bloody weeks ago,

http://oldrightie.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-speaker-at-her-first-pmqs.html
Gareth 21st Jun '09 - 11:21pm

I think a lot of these MPs are an utter joke, i.e. the ones who totally milked the system, but she went out there like a lamb to the slaughter and stood up for herself and did not blink, and I think that compared to some other MPs that kind of strength is to be admired. Like Lonely Wonderer, if she has actually been on the fiddle then I have no sympathy, but that clip by itself isn’t fair, I’m pretty sure the people on that clip booing her in their righteous indignation would boo anyone who didn’t go on tv saying “please don’t hurt me”