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Recent Comments
Simon Robinson
It's good to have an MP putting herself forward for this. The manifesto seems a bit vague though. All good thoughts and nothing you can really disagree with, b...
Robin Bennett
I am sure Alan will have the sympathies of all of us. The situation is sad and frustrating. Forgive me for making one small point, Alan: you said that 40 Ho...
Jonathan Brown
@George - me too. I know that not everyone is happy about this, but it's perfectly reasonable policy and I think all care is being taken to try to reassure thos...
George Thomas
It follows the position of what I believe is a majority of UK population of supporting Israel but being against these unlawful settlements. Maybe not brave in t...
David Le Grice
I don't get your point. Starmer's problem was that he had no charisma or any broader understanding of how to be popular. Boris Johnson managed to deliver the ...
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I truly hope not
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.
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.
Said it bloody weeks ago,
http://oldrightie.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-speaker-at-her-first-pmqs.html
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”