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Title: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on June 15, 2009, 05:18:47 PM
Please nominate the VP member of your choice.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: TG on June 15, 2009, 05:34:36 PM
I cant see Keith Vaz's name on the list?

He would make a great speaker.

The bastard.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Nick on June 15, 2009, 06:05:46 PM
Not Margaret Beckett. If she were a horse I would shoot her.

Oh, pass my gun  redface:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Snoopy on June 15, 2009, 06:32:16 PM
Give it to the lovely Ann Widdecombe ~ she has already said she will stand down at the General Election and we can then have a clean sweep and let them choose from whoever is left standing after the votes have been counted. Meanwhile Ann will be a safe pair of honest hands who at least knows what's what in the HoP ........... You know it makes sense
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Nick on June 15, 2009, 06:48:40 PM
I voted for her  angel1
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 16, 2009, 12:03:31 AM
The speaker of the house should not be an MP. They are elected to represent their constituencies & that should be their only role.

Thinking about it, you want someone in the role who isnt going to be afraid of telling MP's they are being arseholes, so how about Gordon Ramsay or Simon Cowell.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 16, 2009, 07:42:34 AM
Give it to the lovely Ann Widdecombe ~ she has already said she will stand down at the General Election and we can then have a clean sweep and let them choose from whoever is left standing after the votes have been counted. Meanwhile Ann will be a safe pair of honest hands who at least knows what's what in the HoP ........... You know it makes sense

It does to me.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 22, 2009, 07:28:42 AM
How hypocritical can this government aim to be - when we have gone to war with countries for not having a democracy in place and pretending they are threatening their citizens and others - yet now the machiavellian  labour whips are "allegedly "  trying to 'influence ' the vote for a new speaker with great gusto   noooo:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 22, 2009, 08:36:01 AM
Give it to the lovely Ann Widdecombe ~ she has already said she will stand down at the General Election and we can then have a clean sweep and let them choose from whoever is left standing after the votes have been counted. Meanwhile Ann will be a safe pair of honest hands who at least knows what's what in the HoP ........... You know it makes sense

It does to me.
I think she is the obvious choice.

Plus, she will enjoy being manhandled to the woolsack, not to mention allowing Black Rod to enter.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Nick on June 22, 2009, 02:13:17 PM
It's started. Not Bercow pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Barman on June 22, 2009, 03:05:20 PM
Hasn't Beckett got it yet...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Pastis on June 22, 2009, 03:29:24 PM
First round waiting allegedly  ::)
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Barman on June 22, 2009, 03:32:22 PM
What a farce... they may as well just give Mandy the job and have done with it...  noooo:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Barman on June 22, 2009, 04:15:26 PM
Bercow tops first Speaker ballot

Beckett then...  ::)
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Nick on June 22, 2009, 04:18:25 PM
This is awful  noooo:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Barman on June 22, 2009, 04:26:12 PM
Not awful - farcical...  noooo:

British democracy in action eh...?

More like It's a fucking knock out....  cussing:

I can see Gorgon waddling up to the speaker now, dressed in a big clown suit (sorry Miss D) and presenting his joker...
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Pastis on June 22, 2009, 08:10:19 PM
It's started. Not Bercow pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Oh yessssssssssssssssss    Shrugs:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Nick on June 22, 2009, 08:12:42 PM
The man is a complete cvnt. And I have emailed him to tell him so. I shall now be arrested
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Pastis on June 22, 2009, 08:17:43 PM
Nah.... 271 MPs clearly had similar thoughts to you. Mind you, they only put an X in a a box rather than email him  rubschin:
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 23, 2009, 07:28:28 AM
Time for a new start - for a new wholesome regime in Parliament - this is the man that can make changes, that is unscrupulous, morally virtuous and willput his needs before others  noooo: noooo: noooo:


details of Mr Bercow’s expenses raised questions over whether he was the right man to clean up the parliamentary allowances system. Land Registry records obtained by The Daily Telegraph showed that in May 2003, six months after he got married, Mr Bercow sold his constituency home in Adstock, Bucks, for £162,000 and bought another house in the county. Records do not show how much profit he made.

In September 2003, Mr Bercow sold a flat in Victoria, London, for £335,000, which he had bought in 1998 for an undisclosed sum. He and his wife, Sally, then bought a flat in a nearby block.

Mr Bercow, a former merchant banker, flipped the designation of his second home between London and his constituency so that each house was designated as his main home at the time he sold it, meaning he did not have to pay CGT.

A list of MPs who have repaid money claimed on expenses, published by parliament last week, showed that Mr Bercow paid back £1,470.62 he claimed on his office expenses but it was not disclosed what the repayment was for.

In addition to his parliamentary salary, Mr Bercow is paid between £35,000 and £40,000 as an adviser to a private health care company registered in the Cayman Islands.
Title: Re: The New Speaker Poll
Post by: The Moan Ranger on June 23, 2009, 08:11:37 AM
Wonder how long before this hits the headlines...

http://order-order.com/2009/06/19/friday-caption-contest-bercow-rangers-edition/