Tom Harris has been working himself into a frightful frenzy about the Speaker supposedly being hounded out of office. First he reckoned it was those beastly Tories who were up to no good. Now he reckons it's the BBC. Next it'll be the bogeyman.
He dismisses the BBC poll of 132 MPs as an irrelevance, as only 5% of MPs (32) had expressed no confidence in The Speaker. And he reckons they'd all be Tories. Er, actually not. The BBC gave out the figures and the 32 compromised 17 Conservatives, 8 Labour and 7 LibDems.
If these proportions are in any way representative somewhere between a quarter and a third of MPs no longer have confidence in The Speaker. I suppose it's possible for him to carry on if he knows that, but he'd be foolish not to take these figures into account when he decides his future.
If what I hear is true, there are many non Conservative MPs who are looking to him to answer quite a few questions tomorrow. But I do wonder how he can. Can he preside over a debate and also contribute to it?
4 comments:
Speaker Martin needs his Bottom removing from the speakers chair. He has been nothing but a drag on the reputation and a stain on the chair for several years. Even Labour MP's realise that the current speakers time is up!
He should hop it! Get his peerage and watch the interesting by-election in his vaccant seat! Plus the Commons has the chance to drag a servant of the house rather than the Labour party to the chair!
Jabba is puzzled as to why Mrs Dale even bothers letting the utterings of this f***wit socialist figure on her radar. The man obviously has not been following the instructions on his prozac bottle regarding timing of dosages and therefore is prone to rambling socialist verbal diarrhoea. It is an unfortunate example of what happens when someone is mistakenly elected as an MP instead of being referred to social services.
gordons too partisan not to fix this, which will be a shame for parliament itself .It should happen at the next elections.
And sod the MP's ...why not a judge or a soldier ...?
If the rules can be changed to make a jumped up janitor as Serjeant-at-Arms ,then there is an opportunity for an improvement ?
why not
Sadly Ian you must dismiss ALL Labour statements as reasonable.
Mandelson is back in town and NOTHING is now reasonable. Even Margaret Beckett has been nobbled and I thought she was above all of that.
We now have total Partisan war and to pretend otherwise means failure.
Probably wrong of me to put all badbehaviour on Mandelson, as all the bad feeling eminates from Mad(completely mad)Gordon Brown.
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