Southbuck has set up a petition saying that "Michael Martin should resign as Speaker of the Commons".
Sign up here. I dunno why he didn't set this up at the Number 10 website, but hey.
While I'm on the topic, I'm a tad disappointed that so far 28% of people say they are prepared to ignore the MPs' expenses scandal when deciding how to vote. The only way to get the message across is if all voters say that they will vote against any incumbent who has been taking the piss, i.e. just about all of them except this lot. Whether a lot of voters act differently in the cold light of the polling booth is neither here nor, it's your vote to cast as you please.
Nothing subtle about it
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Good spot MW - it is nice to see that some MPs realise the 'moral' and 'principle' aspects of being addressed as Honourable and Rt. Honourable. If these can respect the system it begs the question why oheers couldn't.
Unfortunately the actions of some have tainted all, of which the ones highlighted suffer.
Thanks for posting the petition, Number Ten would not let me set it up on their site, but there's more than one way to skin a cat!
Off topic - a question for you regarding the UKIP campaign poster. Why does it feature Churchill who was neither a UKIP supporter nor opposed to the idea of European union (granted that he never envisaged us being part of it)?
S, I wish I knew. To be fair, UKIP aren't opposed to European Union as such, we just don't want to be in it ourselves.
Hmm, not sure I want a gigantic socialist empire state behemoth on our doorstep again mysef but - each to his own I guess.
Even before the expenses scandal, I wasn't going to vote for my current MP, so it's moot, really.
The good news is that I think it's weakened Blue Labour too.
Thanks again for posting the petition, it seems "people power" won the day. I tried to get Downing Street to post my next assault on the Old Boys network, once again they weren't having any of it!
My new proposed petition read:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'Demand that the European Parliament publishes MEP's expense claims'
In the light of the Daily Telegraph's campaign exposing the excessive/illegal claims of British Parliamentary MP's, it is clear that the British Taxpayer has been misled. The Prime Minister has declared that there will be a new era of transparency over expense claims by MP's. The European Parliament must now be persuaded to be equally transparent over MEP's expense claims.
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