A Garbled Statement from Gorbals Mick
‘Gorbals Mick’ has spoken – if his garbled speech can be graced by such a term.
He has not offered to resign.
Douglas Carswell’s motion is not a ’substantive motion’ . He has refused a debate. David Davis has asked that it be transformed from an early day motion to a substantive order. Mr Speaker says that is not within his power to do so.
Sir Stuart Bell has tried to claim that the house will fully support Martin’s statment – drowned out by jeers!
He is calling a meeting ‘within’ 48 hours to ‘discuss’ the situation.
He has urged ‘honourable members’ not to submit claims in the meantime – no mention of what the dishonourable members should do.
Mark Field MP has asked to debate ‘honourable members’ who have claimed phantom mortgages, Martin has called order and refused to allow him to continue.
Members are now leaving the house in disgust.
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May 18, 2009 at 5:47 pm -
Mr Martin’s complexion looked worryingly florid as the MPs marched out on him.
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May 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm -
With a bit of luck the twat will suffer a massive thrommy.
Odious bastard! -
May 18, 2009 at 6:25 pm -
complexion florid=)? Thats only because of the 2 bottles of claret he drank at lunchtime, paid for by you and me.
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May 18, 2009 at 7:22 pm -
I can’t think why, but lately I keep remembering Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine who, in 1998, redecorated his official Westminster residence with £59,000’s worth of handmade Pugin-esque wallpaper, justifying the expenditure as being in “a noble cause”.
In an apparently unconnected move, in 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair did away with the role of Lord Chancellor altogether, despite it being a role which had existed for 1,400 years.
Perhaps where there’s a will, there’s a way…
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May 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm -
I was flabbergasted when reading about these ‘phantom’ mortgages ! We have been taken for absolute mugs.
It seens the civil service needs a good clear out along with the commons.
Should MP’s ever be able to refer to them selves as ‘honourable’ again ?
I wonder what the reaction would be if i refused to pay a proportion of my tax bill, as protest over all this.
This is no longer about greed, this is criminal behaviour that we think of as part of the fabric of power in countries like, say, italy
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May 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm -
I’m en France at the mo, and had a discussion with a rather nice restaurant owner, regarding the troughing scandal.
She said that politicians would not be let off so lightly over here, and asked what is wrong with the English; we’ve been neutered, according to her.
She advocated the lamp post/ hemp rope combination, although the guillotine remains my method of payback for these thieving cunts.
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May 18, 2009 at 7:53 pm -
Guillotine? Too quick, too painless.
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May 18, 2009 at 7:53 pm -
We have, as you say miss mink, been taken for absolute mugs.
The MPs who are now being forced to blink in the harsh glare of our collective gaze whimperingly accuse ‘the system’ as being at fault but they do so only because we can see the full extent of their exploitation of ‘the system’, details which they would prefer to have kept hidden from us.
As itemised details of their claims are made available for our scrutiny, those MPs who have helped themselves to luxury goods and chattels and lump sums of cash have to face the uncomfortable fact that they look like crooks and no amount of after-the-fact cheque-waving is going to convince us otherwise.
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May 18, 2009 at 10:51 pm -
Gloria ……….. ‘Embarrassment? Fury? High blood-pressure? All of the above?’
He always looks as if he has just had a weekend away with the Max Mosley crew! …………. I am always concerned about people who have that Mr. Kipling rasp to their voice …………….. and I know Anna shares my concern over Browneye’s weird impediment that is fabulously mimicked by Rory Bremner.
It’s not at all charming …………… in fact it’s pervey!
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May 18, 2009 at 11:40 pm -
Rab C. Nesbitt May 18, 2009 at 7:53 pm
‘Guillotine? Too quick, too painless.’yeah. and all that blood.
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May 19, 2009 at 1:10 am -
janes was the one who encouraged me to put my (knitting) needles to work and it is because of her virtual faith in me that I have begun to knit like I’ve never knitted before; now I have nor option but to put yarn-to-needle in a manner more urgent than I ever thought possible; it’s taken over my every waking thought and now I find “I’m a maniac, maniac on the purl floor, and I’m purling like I’ve knever purled before!” Dear friends, please help me before I find I have cable-stitched my craftless personalty forever into part of an intricately-stitched sheep-themed jumper!
He.. e…e…l…purl…me!
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