Michael Martin will receive his peerage in private after fresh public outcry about his elevation to the House of Lords.
The disgraced former Speaker, who prides himself on his working class roots, will not have to join the ordinary recipients of honours at a public ceremony. Instead Royal sources have confirmed he is expected to get the honour behind closed doors to avoid the public spectacle.
This is a man who insists he represented the hard-working classes but he's accepting more trappings of power and he's aided and abetted by his friend Gordon Brown. For the government to arrange a private ceremony is offensive to many I expect and it shows Gordon Brown knows full well that this appointment is wrong and completely against public opinion.
I shouldn't think what the public thinks will worry Mr Martin. His main concern will be ensuring a further generous pension from the House of Lords. Makes a mockery of our so called democracy doesn't it?
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Well, that's the Scots for you. Always troughing at the expense of the hardworking English.
wv menduct: mendacious conduct?
Aye I know Obo, scroungers all of us. Pity the poor English who have to work so hard to pay for all of us isn't it.
Keep up the good work though Obo, we need you. :)
Menduct sounds more like a male disease to me.
What an indictment of what we have become under Scottish LABOUR diktat. Reminds me of Jimmy Snot's Lisbon signing. I suspect they hone these furtive skills in the toilets of London.
Yes of course, Jimmy and his nocturnal Lisbon Treaty signing.
It's either there or somewhere in the bowels of labour party HQ Oldrightie.
I'm new here, so what is the big deal about the Hon Speaker getting a lordship?
Isn't it normal?
I mean we must be sure to equilibrate the inbuilt upper class bias of The Lords.
Quite right I say.
I hope this gets through as I am a bit of a virgin at all this.
Yeah! well it was all speaker martins fault why if it wasn't for him all the MPs would have been as honest as the day is long.
At least in the olden Days the English MPs would not only have made him the scapegoat but they also would have stuck his head on a pike.
It got through fine bugger lugs. The reason for the fuss is that Martin was 'shoved' rather than left office because of his incompetence. Public anger and all that ...
Well true Niko but the main reason for that was then no pension was required - more to share round.
Shoved, oh surely not, Heaven forbid.
He was just picked upon by upper class bullies including that Lord Snooty type Cameron.
Martin was no worse than the members and his job was to ensure that they were adequately rewarded for their devotion to duty and conformity to accepted traditions.
Auch bugger lugs, you're not going to tell me he was picked on anymore than a public school tory would be picked on by the labour party.
Martin was crap at his job. He had no control over the members in the chambers and he was unable to make the shortest speech without reading it from notes.
He may be a pleasant man but he was promoted above his abilities, like quite a few MPs I would say.
He was picked upon from day 1, Gorbals Mick, he was not from the Gorbals but it set a tone of English public schoolboy behind hand sniggering.
If he had no control of the Chamber it was because it suited both sides to be so.
Under the whip system MPs are just lobby fodder and Martin's job was to retain their interest by allowing special treats, to help while away the empty hours and days
Anyway the H of C really is a hollow chamber for, most of the work they would have been doing is now done in Brussels by a anointed nomenklatura and civil servants rubber stamped by the H of C and the French Senate, Dansk Volketing, German Bundestag etc
PMQ times are just bread and fishes for the plebs. Martin was only part of the cast, the H of C is the Circus.
Anyway it keeps the plebs amused and the chattering classes lubricated. Good for the dinner table but meaningless anyway.
Bugger lugs, I'm sure more and more people agree with your assessment of the H of C these days.
SR,
Don't worry once we get Independence the English won't be long kicking the twat oot.
And with no Lairds to trough off of Scotland, he can get tae feck.
Simples!
CD
Just a point, all these numpty Lards, including and especially Martin and FFSake, after independence will be kept in the state to which they have been accustomed by the new English Parliament?
Scotland will have no House of Lords and the English will get to keep them all.
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Aye yer right CD. Wonder where he'll go. The US? Will they have him?
I doubt if my English friends will wear that bugger lugs. For once they've been quite vocal about certain labour politicians.
I suspect that Michael Martin's contribution to debates and other work in the House of Lords will be distinctly low key as well, so at least he's starting as he means to go on!
Hello Stuart, long time no see. I do hope you're keeping well.
His work may well be behind closed doors, who knows. :)
How can anyone accept such a reward in secret ? Lord Martin Of Troughgate clearly has no shame.
Morning banned. Very few of them have - we're returning to the days of Henry V111 with such anointments done behind close doors.
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