tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post2446864819718225658..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Speaker BitesIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20898432209517565492009-05-20T08:15:25.856+01:002009-05-20T08:15:25.856+01:00Lets have an ENGLISHMAN,for OUR Parliament,a David...Lets have an ENGLISHMAN,for OUR Parliament,a David sounds good !Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375235217348007956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32660461861658692172009-05-20T08:12:53.388+01:002009-05-20T08:12:53.388+01:00Frank Field is the man for PM,in a COALITION.Frank Field is the man for PM,in a COALITION.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375235217348007956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10564994438737398952009-05-20T08:07:26.750+01:002009-05-20T08:07:26.750+01:00I wish I cud urn £100m a year for reeding badly,es...I wish I cud urn £100m a year for reeding badly,espeshally wiv an unintelligble accent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375235217348007956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-41658321988502897822009-05-19T23:46:51.707+01:002009-05-19T23:46:51.707+01:00The Mail is despicable for its soubriquet 'Gorbals...The Mail is despicable for its soubriquet 'Gorbals Mick' for Michael Martin.<br /><br />Its mean, snobbish - coined by Q Letts - and wrong. M Martin was born and brought up in Anderton - on the north bank of the Clyde, Gorbals is south and quite different. For southern folk - a bit like confusing Acton with Bermondsey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-54261698226681246622009-05-19T23:39:53.839+01:002009-05-19T23:39:53.839+01:00Richard Shepherd has to be speaker. Intelligent, k...Richard Shepherd has to be speaker. Intelligent, knows the ropes, keen on transparency and on holding the executive to account.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-2740917528909552292009-05-19T22:54:10.717+01:002009-05-19T22:54:10.717+01:00No it isn't!No it isn't!Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-64256412563261345092009-05-19T22:49:08.707+01:002009-05-19T22:49:08.707+01:00Chris Mullin has just been outed on Newsnight. Iai...Chris Mullin has just been outed on Newsnight. Iain, you have spent "an evening" with him. Is is a goer?Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10185327361531313312009-05-19T22:07:00.000+01:002009-05-19T22:07:00.000+01:00Gordon Brown, you broke parliament. For God's sake...<A HREF="http://thatsnews.blogspot.com/2009/05/gordon-brown-you-broke-parliament-for.html" REL="nofollow">Gordon Brown, you broke parliament. For God's sake do not try to repair it yourself. Send for an expert</A>Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11833107988212548952009-05-19T21:17:00.000+01:002009-05-19T21:17:00.000+01:00Went to Bradford Grammar School with John Mann whe...Went to Bradford Grammar School with John Mann where he was noted for being boring and obsessively Labour to the point of being ignorantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19198227292103194482009-05-19T21:14:00.000+01:002009-05-19T21:14:00.000+01:00Ann Widdicombe for speaker?
Oh yes please.
I lov...Ann Widdicombe for speaker?<br /><br />Oh yes please.<br /><br />I love that woman.KillingTimenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15627351078379447662009-05-19T20:35:00.000+01:002009-05-19T20:35:00.000+01:00The Gentleman's Club meme is getting tiresome. It ...The Gentleman's Club meme is getting tiresome. It was repeated ad nauseam on C4 News. What a sickening thing it is that Brown only cares about political point scoring at a time like this.Oscar Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423019456579337438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17885074654562102882009-05-19T20:15:00.000+01:002009-05-19T20:15:00.000+01:00Hail to our great ex leader. Tony couldnt have pic...Hail to our great ex leader. Tony couldnt have picked a better man (except Martin and Brown)<br /><br />http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/05/prezza-as-gracious-as-ever.html<br /><br />Just the way to say goodbye to them all, thanks John first sensible thing you have ever said. Pity you directed at us (your emloyers, you know, the ones who paid for your toilet seats, Jaguars and the rest of your miserable poverty)kasouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581410177492723605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-63000031788267862012009-05-19T20:11:00.000+01:002009-05-19T20:11:00.000+01:00John Mann is a typical Communist.John Mann is a typical Communist.Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-56297254363472448412009-05-19T20:04:00.000+01:002009-05-19T20:04:00.000+01:00Frank Field is too important for generating ideas ...Frank Field is too important for generating ideas to be stymied as speaker.Pete Wasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07273201618379148597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-64709315915627825852009-05-19T19:29:00.000+01:002009-05-19T19:29:00.000+01:00Vince Cable honourary Glaswegian, Gorbal Mick's co...Vince Cable honourary Glaswegian, Gorbal Mick's colleague as a councillor in Glasgow council, ruling himself out? Used to a rather small crowd of Lib dem front benchers, I can't see him making it in a higher dimension as a Speaker of HOC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-45955161657502995162009-05-19T19:02:00.000+01:002009-05-19T19:02:00.000+01:00John Mann?
Try here.
A humourless speaker doesn'...John Mann?<br /><br />Try <A HREF="http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2009/05/13/reason-to-vote-out-and-reason-to-vote-in/" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<br /><br />A humourless speaker doesn't sound so bad after the joker we have had for years.<br /><br />Oh, and bring back Filkin for Standards CommissionerThe Basahttp://www.edinburghsucks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35376359451204896932009-05-19T18:52:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:52:00.000+01:00Anonymous said...
""Vince Cable has just announced...Anonymous said...<br />""Vince Cable has just announced he won't be standing for Speaker."<br /><br />Wow. Wonder what skeletons he has hiding in his expenses then."<br /><br />I don't think it's a matter of skeletons at all. Cable is probably largely clean of any troughing.<br /><br />I'd be willing to bet that it comes down to what benefits the LibDems more; his current role (quoth Iain Dale "national economic sage") is tremendously beneficial to the Liberal Democrat party. The position of Speaker would mute him and I strongly doubt LibDem HQ would ever consider losing the man who the public trust more than any other LibDem at this moment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24656783889919249402009-05-19T18:49:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:49:00.000+01:00Dale, have a read of this article
http://www.dail...Dale, have a read of this article<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1151829/FRANK-FIELD-I-sickened-Margaret-Thatchers-MPs-hated-her.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-25181608317276466402009-05-19T18:42:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:42:00.000+01:00"Well I hope you're proud of yourself". -- well I..."Well I hope you're proud of yourself". -- well I hope he is.<br /><br />The more tribal labour MPs are just bitter at the Gorbals Mick jibes. Martin was not simply working class (Thomas was and was widely respected) - he was incompetent partial and boorish and ignorant.<br /><br />BTW - working mens clubs set their own rules as well as gentlemens clubs.<br /><br />Field is the only Labour MP I would support. Whom is a long standing assiduous back bench MP? that was the tradition until former minister Selwyn Lloyd became speaker.<br /><br />What we want is not just a speaker who will ensure probity in politics and parliament, but also one who will protect parliament from the interference and dictatorship of government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-48013075530798373462009-05-19T18:39:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:39:00.000+01:00I watched Mann with you on TV Iain.
I can imagine...I watched Mann with you on TV Iain.<br /><br />I can imagine 3 centuries ago he could have been a Ranter.<br /><br />He's just a ranter now...humourless .. although as you said, much of his rant made sense.<br /><br />He of course is totally unPC. Gentleman's Club? The HOC allows wimmin in...Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16232711214190648232009-05-19T18:26:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:26:00.000+01:00What better revenge than Scottish Labour MPs hoist...What better revenge than Scottish Labour MPs hoisting a Scottish Catholic MP (and Cabinet minister) on to hapless Tories et.al. Jim Murphy is their man!! Given Scottish Labour party in such disarray and many Scottish Labour MPs not seen making it in the GE( The SNP sinking them),<br />no better way of preserving the survival of one of their own as a speaker- Jim Murphy replacing Gorbals Mick!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-31291467346829255912009-05-19T18:16:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:16:00.000+01:00Im a lorry driver now, used to be a hi tech comput...Im a lorry driver now, used to be a hi tech computer nerd..still am but I live a ggod life in Sweden, my father was a factory worker, my mother washed dishes to put me through grammar school...f**k Martin<br />my mother lost 35% of her pension thanks to Brown and the likes of that s**t head Martin- get lost you Scottish gitkasouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581410177492723605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-14190080685396114182009-05-19T18:07:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:07:00.000+01:00though true blue myself I'd rather this time the C...though true blue myself I'd rather this time the Chair went to the best candidate regardless of party, even if it is the "turn" of a conservative. Beith, Field, Cable may all be good conciliatory candidates but we really need a strong Speaker to ensure impartiality both ways, keep order/control over the MPs and how they carry on, and also to protect the ability/powers of the Commons to question the executive and hold it to account. Of all the possibkle candidates, I think Anne Widdicombe would fit the bill closest. There is apparently a long standing labour MP from wales too who could do this but don't know much about himedfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06378787702419385891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4732811663717182012009-05-19T18:03:00.000+01:002009-05-19T18:03:00.000+01:00If the Speaker troughs whose Star Chamber can dese...If the Speaker troughs whose Star Chamber can deselect him?disgustedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18217426208569128474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1464844363862641942009-05-19T17:54:00.000+01:002009-05-19T17:54:00.000+01:00"Vince Cable has just announced he won't be standi..."Vince Cable has just announced he won't be standing for Speaker."<br /><br />Wow. Wonder what skeletons he has hiding in his expenses then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com