New Labour and inherited privilege (3)

Another instalment of my occasional series from The Metro:

Mr Martin is said to be keen to stay on for an another year so he can keep his £141,000 salary and to maximise his chances of passing on his safe Glasgow seat to his son, Paul.

His son would presumably be known as 'Gorbals Paul' ab initio, which makes it a crying shame he wasn't christened 'Josef'.

Maybe Gorbals Mick can give him a lift as far as Dewsbury?

Fun Online Petition

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.

Just f*** off. And pay for your own taxi this time.