This is Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay. Today he saved the taxpaper £150,000. He tabled an amendment banning the new regional select committee chairman from receiving salaries of £12,000. With Conservative support, it passed by two votes. He becomes our Hero of the Day.
31 comments:
How can you describe Andrew Mackinlay a hero??
I will never forgive him for the disgraceful way he cross examined David Kelly,who,two days later he committed suicide.
yeh we can give him that.
But the big disgrace of the day was Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland MP's voting on this purely English question and to limit the dabate to one and half hours.
What a star
Although he has been ever since he first became an MP.
Remember his brilliant PMQ to Blair bemoaning the use of planted questions.
Best MP in Parliament.
why? Was the figure too low?
Don't quite get it. Maybe you could expand?
What's the fuss all about then?
Good for him, and I very rarely say that about any Labour MP. Well done Mr Mackinlay.
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Thnak the Lord for a Labour politician who has a sense of decency - too few of them. He also seems to understand the public's deep unease over the way in which elected representatives too often appear to milk the system.
My word verification almost describes my feelings - OSTATIC.
I wasn't going to post anything but the captcha is "foingin" which is something I imagine Iain gets up to most weekends...
I agre with anon 6.44 PM, in view of Andrew Mackinlay's shameful treatment of Dr David Kelly, I would not call him him a hero.
He has, however, earned our thanks for this cutting these snout in the trough quango Chairs down to size. Thank you for that, Mr Mackinlay.
Now will a brave MP table a motion for ministers, shadow ministers and whips to forgo their additional salaries and subsist on their MP's salaries or House of Lords allowances in order to reduce government borrowing?
Mackinlay was indeed very hard on Dr Kelly. Mackinlay's words may well have driven Kelly past the brink.
In another life I had many dealings with Mr Mackinlay and found him to be always true to his word and a very honest man.
People call him a maverick. I do not. I call him a true man of honour.
anonymous at 7.11 pm
I presume you mean Scottish LABOUR MPs?
I cannot believe that New Labour or NoLab, as I term them, because of their lack of any Socialist policy, has found even one MP who wants to halt the march of the New Labour Project.
He has probably committed political suicide because he has argued against a Euro/NoLab policy of breaking up England into regions which would destroy us.
That is the Euro plot folks but then nobody wants to know. By the time it happens we will have sleepwalked into history
Mackinley's contemptible treatment of Doctor Kelly during questioning was simply uncalled for.
Mackinley, despite your praise will remain, for many, a prime example of a authoritarian bully.
Dr. Kelly, a meek and gentle person, was subjected to this abusive interrogation and distasteful harangue by Mackinley purely because he could.
Will they get more then Iain? Or nothing at all?
This is the sort of amount that a Tory MEP could trouser OTT in a month.
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Well done that MP.
Ben Bradshaw ( South West Regional Committee Boss ) said on the radio some while back something like " I will use my committee to bring together business and union leaders so that I can make decisions for the SW without the usual months of delays..."
So much for enhancing local democracy. Ben will rule but maybe he won't bother now he is denied the £12k pocket money.
But, Mr Paul, think of the example being set to them by Lord and Lady Kinnock.
150,000 divided by 60,000,000= a quarter of a penny each.
Every little helps...
Personally I think he's a pontificating ninny, depicting all that is worst about our Parliament.
He's a bully and a thug. His behaviour toward Mr Kelly should haunt him to his dying day.
Just a question to those who keep lambasting a man for cross-examining a poor witness as part of his job - do you think he know Kelly would commit suicide? My guess is that he did what most good MPs would do, and was seeking (rather aggresively perhaps) to break through a veil of silence. So don't judge a man on the actions of another man, who made his own choices, regretable as they might be.
I didn't think he bullied Dr Kelly. He wanted Dr Kelly to admit that he had been set up; I think Mackinlay was attacking other people whose victim Dr Kelly was. I watched the inquiry and formed the strong impression that Mackinlay is an honourable and forthright man, evidently too outspoken for some tastes.
Back door regionalisation continues however. Would a Tory government disband this nonsense - doubtful as they started it.
anon@6.44 pm and auntie flo': you are entitled to your views, but the questioning reflected Mackinlay's consistent and sincerely-held views about the primacy of parliament which he believed was being hoodwinked by the Government.
"Back door regionalisation continues however. Would a Tory government disband this nonsense - doubtful as they started it."
You can bet your house ( whatever thats worth these days ) they will not.
The tories are going through the motions in opposing the ongoing destruction of England by our political elite, at the behest of their EU masters, the tories as ever are merely playing to the crowd.
They may grumble a bit about the way things are dictated to the UK, but in the final analysis, they will do their masters in Brussels bidding.
On this as so many other issues, they are a fraud, new Labour or blue Labour, they are in it together, always have been, always will be.
As for Mackinlay he is a dreadful man and his past "form" is testament to his moral compass, ie: he has none.
Once again Scottish and Welsh Labour MP`s, decide the fate of England, so no change there then.
Does anyone on this website truly understand, that this process is nothing short of an ongoing salami slice destruction of England, as a nation?
England sold out again ,as anoneumouse says Scottish ,Welsh N Ireland MPs voting on things that will mean the end of England,
254-220 is there any way of finding out who were the 34 voters
Anonymous said...
"Mackinlay was indeed very hard on Dr Kelly."
balls
"Mackinlay's words may well have driven Kelly past the brink."
If so, then Kelly was clearly an inadequate who should have kept well away from public positions.
Nothing to do with Ruth Mackinlay writing for Total Politics magazine is it?
She doesn't. Sarah does though. And yes, I only wrote this post because she ordered me to. I'm lack that.
Prick.
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