Out With the Partisan Speaker and Then Out With the Unelected Prime Minister

The information upon which the Telegraph has drawn in these last days of Parliament's shame is still out there. Not just the highlighted data attached to newsworthy individuals but the complete information, the repeated, petty, abusive acts, the data that will blow New Labour to pieces. The Telegraph is not the only source for this exhaustive account of the purchase of political acquiescence. It exists elsewhere and outlets are being sought to put it, freely available, on the internet. And the reason why Labour is much more damaged by it all is that Opposition members of Parliament did not need to be disciplined in the ways that New Labour needed to discipline the Parliamentary Labour Party, whose allegiances had so forcibly been shifted from their Leader and Prime Minister Blair to his unelected political assassin Brown. While the Conservatives had suffered a popular and charismatic Leader's dispatch, at least they fought out the aftermath by vote and democratic choice within their Party. And most of that was carried out in opposition.

What we are looking at is the half submerged disciplinary system that delivers the New Labour majority to a usurper. A usurper who for more than a decade wrecked his Party Leader's agenda, including denying the proper financing of two wars. Many soldiers, caught in a political conflict beyond their world, died from that denial of financing, or its diversion to politically more rewarding defence procurement, in the interests of Brown's self advancement. And as Brown constructed his client state with means tests and high taxation, with wages reduced to below minimum consumption levels by taxation, with the destruction of systems of social cohesion by encouraging atomistic relationships with his authoritarian control, but not with other people, with family, with neighbours, unease among our Labour representatives was bought off and then blackmailed into silence.

Many commenters have recognised 'realised socialism' as it has spored, like dry rot, through our social and political world. Now, as one of Brown's chief assistants, a man bred like him in Scottish socialist politics with all that is implied in such a description, proudly disgracing his office as Speaker of our Legislature, stands exposed for the corrupted, partisan bully that has played a large part in maintaining this decade-long farrago of false democracy, we are supposed to take him for a scapegoat.

Speaker Martin has controlled the business of the Commons to the advantage of Brown since he was levered into the office he disgraces by Scottish socialist bullies nine years ago. And to rid our Parliament of him is the first step in ridding ourselves of our undemocratic, authoritarian rule.