Monday 18 May 2009

The House of Commons Must Rid Itself of a Pernicious and Partisan Speaker

How can it possibly be the role of the Executive to decide on whether a vote should be held on removing the Speaker of the House? Quintessentially that decision must belong to the House. The Speaker has got it wrong. Again.
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2 comments:

Elby the Beserk said...

He's going. This avo.

One down. Quite a lot more to go.

19 May 2009 at 15:39
hatfield girl said...

Yes, Elby, we are going to be rid of a man who stands for everything we reject.

But as from NOW the House of Commons is stripped of its Speaker, literally the person who speaks for us all in controlling the improper use of our power.

There is a one month hiatus, during which, from Thursday, there will be no-one at all present in the Parliament. Last Christmas Canada found its Parliament didn't reopen until the Executive gave the nod, which was only once it had the vote it had been unable to command before the House was closed.

Brown got his own way you know - from the asserting of the Executive's right to reject any discussion in the House on its own Speaker, to stripping the Commons of its champion for another, crucial, month for his regime, to being empowered to close any further discussion of the use of expenses for Labour back bench discipline with 'the man who had oversight of expenses is going. Move on.'

Speaker Martin should have been ejected from office by the House, not required to go gently by the Executive. And the House should have chosen our new Speaker forth with.

And what price has he extracted from such a prime minister as Brown?

The Scottish Labouryness of it all makes me flinch with disgust.

19 May 2009 at 16:05

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