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Britannist

A call (in posting number five of the following thread) for Mrs. Anne Widdecombe, the Conservative MP, to be Speaker of the Commons:

"Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe blasts Tory positive discrimination policies" (claim)

blueblood1920

Fails to mention that it was Michael Barnbrook the former UKIP member now BNP member who brought up the complaint.

Britannist

"Spokesman for Speaker of Commons quits":

"Spokesman for The Speaker of the House of Commons resigns"

cassie

Amongst other duties, this 'impartial' Scot is Chairman of the Boundary Commission for England and the Chair (mark you) of the Boundary Commissions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

No wonder he was eased into the important position of Speaker when it was the turn of other parties to fill it after Betty Boothroyd's stint!

AAAAaargh!!!!


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rjt

I am not so sure about eased Cassie, he was whipped in by new Labour, there is in theroy supposed to be a free vote on who is speaker, I think every other candidate had some cross party support except Martin the whips were determined to have him and make use of thier massive majority. People were cajoled and bullied into supporting him just as the Labour Whips now are threatening MPS who are sticking to the referndum pledge.

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Mr Delors said that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community, The Commission to be The Executive and The Council Of Ministers The Senate. NO! NO! NO!
(Margaret Thatcher 30 Oct 1990)

Ignore List: The Prophets of ST Al the Unelectable.

Britannist

Useful to learn of this, Cassie - thank you.

Didn't Commons Speaker Michael Martin do all he could to stop a pro-England march going past the Commons last Spring (a march marking the Anniversary of the UK and the fact that there has been no English Parliament since the formation of the Union of the UK)?

Britannist

A couple of weeks ago Lord Tebbit (the anti-EU former Conservative Party Chairman) said (on 'The Daily Politics') that George Thomas (The Late Lord Tonypandy who spoke against the EEC/EU after leaving The Speaker's Chair) was the best Commons Speaker (in his opinion)

cassie

Yes he did, the thing!

I know I keep batting on about the under-representation of England and the English, but the Electoral Commission is another case in point:

Chairman - Sam Younger (Scot)
Commissioner - John McCormick (Scot) replaced Sir Cameron McIntosh (Scot) on 19 Jan 2008
Commissioner - Ian Kelsall (Welsh) replaced Glyn Mathias (Welsh) on 19 Jan 2008
Commissioner - Karamjit Singh (British?) Northern Ireland background
Commissioner - Max Caller (British?) 'the new Chair of the Boundary Committee for England' according to the EC
Commissioner - Henrietta Campbell (Scot?) Northern Ireland background

The EC has now set up a 'regional presence in England' and 'devolved offices in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland'. This is to say, it now has the following appointments:

Head of Scotland Office (for 3.9 million voters)
Head of Wales Office (for 2.2 million voters)
Head of Northern Ireland Office (for 1.1 million voters)
Head of English Regions Office (for 36.9 million voters)

One 'Head of Office' to deal with 36.9 million voters in England but three such Heads to deal with 7.2 million voters in the provinces!

Note the avoidance of using the name of England!

All this against a background of:

Prime Minister - a Scot
Chancellor of the Exchequer - a Scot
Chairman of the Commons Finance Committee - a Scot
Chairman of the Financial Services Authority - a Scot.

Who would imagine that Scots account for 8.3% of Great Britain's population and the English some 83.3%?

This talk of widespread and persistent discrimination against the English is pure imagination!



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Phil Sheldon

The accusation against Speaker Martin does not seem to have deterred him from his usual arrogant manner.
What is more interesting is that Denis Skinner is the first to criticise any signs of Tory wrongdoing, but on this occasion the Hypocrite of Bolsover remains silent. Ergo, Skinner supports 'Maladministration/Loss of memory/Bad accounting' by supporters of the Labour party.
Tosser-in-Chief sits on his hands.

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