the wilted rose

GreenGate is certainly digging the Government, whether it’s Brown or Smith, and the House, whether it’s Martin or the Serjeant-at-Arms, or the Met, in the persona of Sir Ian Bliar’s successor Sir Paul Stepping-over-the-Mark-henson, into a very deep hole.

Indeed, Nadine Dorries says tearily:

I reckon the Speaker, who I really like, may not survive today.

His statement was about protecting his own back as opposed to protecting those to whom he owes his protection as a necessity of convention.

He will always hold a place in my heart as the first Speaker to swear me in; but today, I am awash with disappointment as the reality dawned on me, that the coveted chair and the man to whom as Speaker I have always been loyal, is without honour.

Many Labour MPs are closing ranks on GreenGate, but they would, wouldn’t they?  The overpaid thuggish Labour whips have no doubt bullied them.  Disgusting Labour drivel.  It would almost make me fill in a Tory membership form (but I won’t, thank you very much, given their misguided tie-up with the UUP.)