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Beckett for Speaker? How out of touch are our MPs?

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in the House of Commons after the disgraceful conduct of MPs and their expenses, we now have the unbelievable scenario of the election of Margaret Beckett to the role of Speaker.

Don't they get it?

How on earth could anyone in their right mind vote in a woman who is totally out of touch with the voters' concerns over the behaviour of MPs and in a total state of denial about her own expenses? Remember the £600 claim for hanging baskets and pot plants?

If you want only one reason as to why she should not become the Speaker who will clean up the House of Commons, just remember one place and one date - the Question Time Panel, 14th of May 2009.

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peterekraus said…
I would be very interested to know, bearing in mind that an awful lot of MPs are very busy people indeed, just how many of the people who have made inappropriate claims had actually entrusted most of the responsibility for that action to their accountants.

There has been a philosophy in many echelons of business for many years to claim up to the maximum budgetary allowance on whatever level it may be in order that the budget will not be cut the following year or whatever the time period may be.

Apart from that, taking a sort of evolutionary stance if you like, human beings can behave a bit like monkeys, in fact a lot like monkeys at times, monkey see-monkey do if you know what I mean and if stuff is metaphorically left hanging about a bit like the £600 for the hanging baskets and pot plants, it's likely to be taken advantage of. I hope the display brought pleasure to many other wise we should have due cause for public complaint. Is not the Rt Hon Lady in charge of sustainability in housing and the like and if that is the case, then surely the promotion of horticulture would fit in quite appropriately with the role.

I would like to see the names of the accountants who proposed or at least concurred with the addition of interest claims for nonexistent mortgages and the like, that sounds like fraud!
June 21, 2009 11:29 pm
Anonymous said…
had to laugh at the tory benches when John Bercow won the ballot and was dragged to the chair

Must say that was funny......but typified the tribal nonsense which the commons really is

Mr Logical
June 23, 2009 10:55 pm
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