This afternoon I was an unwilling listener to St Stuart Bell who claimed that Michael Martin was a reforming Speaker and should have been allowed to get on with the job. Later Gordon Brown claimed to be the only one who was reforming Parliament. Puhleeese! As I have remarked before Martin was never up to the job. Worse still he took every suggestion and offer of help as a personal slight and invented this idea that people were against him because of his background. There have been very many better men and women than Michael Martin who have been able to move on in life and actually clock up real achievements rather than polish a chip on the shoulder.
Gone now. Gordon Brown will probably give him a seat in the Lords where he can carry on troughing, but at least he won't be in a position to block reform.
Douglas Carswell appears to realize that the whole Parliamentary set up needs reform. I hope he is able to convince others. In the meantime Gordon Brown appears to believe that it's only a matter of cleaning up the expenses system and salaries for MPs, so we are not much further ahead.
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