Letts is the biggest snob on the Mail’s payroll. Apparently “the thought of such a bounder [as Kate Middleton’s uncle] and the Duke of Edinburgh in the same wedding photograph certainly sets one’s creative juices running”. I mean, that’s the snobbiest thing I’ve read in ages. Also, wasn’t it Quentin Letts who coined the name “Gorbals Mick” for Michael Martin?
It does puzzle me why MPs get twelve weeks holiday a year, everyone else (except teachers) get 4 weeks max, and most are actually competent at their job.
They obviously can’t have tried to hard to “bury” anything if the DM can splash it on the front page.
Letts is an ar$ehole, plain and simple. He whored his own child around every media outlet that would let him as he attempted to score petty political points over the MMR fuss (which, incidentally he turned out to be wrong about).
Mr Morton.
MPs aren’t on holiday for the entire 12wks, they are merely not at Westminster.
Many will spend a lot of that time (barring, usually, a normal holiday) in their constituencies doing constituency work.
I actually thought he was making a point in general about Mp’s, which of course the Mail doesn’t.
The Mail makes out they are all off to sun and sand in the Grand Canaries while many will probably be catching up on the constiency matters, Mail Man also does not defer from just government he includes all Mp’s. I think Mr Mordon your seeing things that are simply not there.
I’m probably more bias in my comment, but hell it didn’t get mentioned enough last year, and I heard he’s visiting my region again (more likely due to target seats more than any actual concern for low paid wages, massive amounts of second homes and lack of any afforable housing that eithier matches the pay or would be rentable on benefits, of course anyone on benefits trying to rent down here also struggle as every privately rented property that comes on the market asks for no DSS, which is a term that basically went out with the formation of JC and Benefits years ago).
A “good day to bury bad news” is when there is a major news story with blanket coverage. You sneak out an unflattering announcement and hope no-one notices. It is not “the day you go on holiday”. And if it is on the front page of the Mail and several other papers it hasn’t been buried.
Good job the Mail never sneers snobbishly, eh?
Are we being ’softened up’ for a Christmas Royal wedding?
Who can forget that ‘magical day’ in 1981, time off work and everything?
Letts is the biggest snob on the Mail’s payroll. Apparently “the thought of such a bounder [as Kate Middleton’s uncle] and the Duke of Edinburgh in the same wedding photograph certainly sets one’s creative juices running”. I mean, that’s the snobbiest thing I’ve read in ages. Also, wasn’t it Quentin Letts who coined the name “Gorbals Mick” for Michael Martin?
He actually wrote “bounder”? In 2009? I was so surprised that my monocle fell into my Pimm’s.
It does puzzle me why MPs get twelve weeks holiday a year, everyone else (except teachers) get 4 weeks max, and most are actually competent at their job.
Is it actually a holiday though? Presumably they still have to deal with constituency matters during the Parliamentary recess.
wasn’t the mail previously among those who sneered at kate middleton’s roots?
They obviously can’t have tried to hard to “bury” anything if the DM can splash it on the front page.
Letts is an ar$ehole, plain and simple. He whored his own child around every media outlet that would let him as he attempted to score petty political points over the MMR fuss (which, incidentally he turned out to be wrong about).
Mr Morton.
MPs aren’t on holiday for the entire 12wks, they are merely not at Westminster.
Many will spend a lot of that time (barring, usually, a normal holiday) in their constituencies doing constituency work.
Cameron will holiday in Cornwall proclaiming the need not to holiday abroad before jetting off for two weeks in Spain…. like last year.
I, for one will, not be saluting every other pushy parent.
Of course, before 1997 MPs worked 25-hour days, 8 days a week, 53 weeks a year. For tuppence.
I’m not a cricket fan, but he really as fat as that photo makes him look?
Mail Man:
Why do you keep calling me Mr Morton??
Anyhow, it was just a joke about MP’s hols and naturally it got the response I expected from youself
By the way, Kim Jun IL rang, he wants another lacky who is never ever critical of the govenment, however shit they are. Shall I confirm your interest?
I actually thought he was making a point in general about Mp’s, which of course the Mail doesn’t.
The Mail makes out they are all off to sun and sand in the Grand Canaries while many will probably be catching up on the constiency matters, Mail Man also does not defer from just government he includes all Mp’s. I think Mr Mordon your seeing things that are simply not there.
I’m probably more bias in my comment, but hell it didn’t get mentioned enough last year, and I heard he’s visiting my region again (more likely due to target seats more than any actual concern for low paid wages, massive amounts of second homes and lack of any afforable housing that eithier matches the pay or would be rentable on benefits, of course anyone on benefits trying to rent down here also struggle as every privately rented property that comes on the market asks for no DSS, which is a term that basically went out with the formation of JC and Benefits years ago).
I’m confused. MPs and Labour are incompetent morons who do nothing but deliberately destroy this country.
Surely 12 weeks of “doing nothing” (even though that’s not what’s happening) is a good thing?
Mr Morton
I was merely commenting on the general implied assumption that all MPs go off on a 12 week beano.
They don’t, well, hardly any of them anyways.
Meantime I’d advise you to watch the company you keep, in touch with Kimmy eh?
Must be really awesome stuff that dude.
A “good day to bury bad news” is when there is a major news story with blanket coverage. You sneak out an unflattering announcement and hope no-one notices. It is not “the day you go on holiday”. And if it is on the front page of the Mail and several other papers it hasn’t been buried.
I am more than pleased that with 12 weeks away from Westminster, news coverage can turn to something a bit more interesting.
The only piece of bad news that I worry about is that the
Mail and its cretinous journalist’s are still misguiding
their brain damaged readers.