Labour MPs I'd like to hit with a haddock

new puritan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:17 pm

Jack Straw and Kate Hoey are angling for OBNs, it would appear.

http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2915

Quote:

That this House expresses its profound gratitude to Her Majesty The Queen for her dedication to a life of public service; pays tribute to the energy, wisdom and grace with which she carries out her many public duties; welcomes the opportunities over the coming months that the nation will have to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee - a landmark that of the 41 monarchs who have reigned England and the UK since William the Conqueror -only Her Majesty and Queen Victoria have observed; notes that the west tower of the Palace of Westminster was originally called The King's Tower; further notes that when the Palace of Westminster was rebuilt in 1860, it was renamed the Victoria Tower, to commemorate the long reign of Queen Victoria; proudly recalls Her Majesty's tribute to Parliament in her Address to both Houses as `an unshakeable cornerstone of our constitution and our way of life'; signals its desire to honour Her Majesty's commitment to democracy in Britain and the Commonwealth; and therefore calls on the House of Commons Commission to consider proposals to rename the Palace of Westminster's east tower holding the Big Ben clock the Elizabeth Tower, in recognition of Her Majesty's 60 years of unbroken public service on behalf of her country.

Pass the fucking sick bag. Out-of-touch twats the lot of them.

DTR · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:21 pm

It's to be expected from Kate Hoey TBH. I've never understood why is in the Labour Party.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:22 pm

It's cheaper than a fucking yacht, give them that at least

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:07 pm

Funtime Frankie:

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/workless ... ield-27265

Quote:

“I found out that one in five households has never ever had work.”

Quote:

Excluding student households, it would appear that only 1.5 per cent of households have never worked; if student households are included, the figure becomes 1.8 per cent.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:10 pm

So beloved of the definitely-not-tribal Moonshien, of course. Field, like Hooey, ought really to consider which party they are members of.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:12 pm

It looks like Field hasn't bothered to get in touch with Full Fact after they pointed his error out.

Funny. Silence isn't a natural state with him.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:16 pm

Neither, unfortunately, is humility or self-doubt.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:20 pm

Nor accuracy.

Do you reckon he misread the decimal point, like the Tories with their "25% of poor girls knocked up at 16" or whatever it was?

He's MP for Birkenhead and supposedly an expert in this field. It wouldn't be much of an excuse.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:34 pm

I think he was telling porkies because he still lives in the world before the internet, Full Fact, Fact Check and people having a way of countering MP's press releases and so he thought he could get away with it. He lies to suit his purpose because it's second nature to him. Like a lot of journalists, like our beloved Drip Doctor.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:39 pm

A very good point.

I don't know if there's some bias in the selections Fullfact/ Fact Check make, but it seems like the politicians I hated most anyway are the worst for lying. Gove, IDS, etc.

Lord Brett · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:21 pm

As a vegetarian, am I allowed to hit Frank Field with a cabbage instead of some poor, innocent haddock. Or perhaps a leek - you could get quite a swing with one of those.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:50 pm

Frankly, I reckon if you used a baseball bat you'd be doing us all a favour.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Lord Brett wrote:

As a vegetarian, am I allowed to hit Frank Field with a cabbage instead of some poor, innocent haddock. Or perhaps a leek - you could get quite a swing with one of those.

May I suggest a large durian.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:55 pm

Much more of this sort of stuff from Stella Creasy and she'll be for the haddock treatment as well.

Quote:

"The whole idea that we can somehow manage this through salami-slicing does not match either the challenges we face due to demography or the financial mess the country will be left in. What does my generation of politicians do? Do we say, well, we will try our best to limit the damage, or do we say there is a new world out there, and it requires radicalism," she said.

"In the next spending review absolutely everything should be on the table and the onus should be not just in the government, but the public, the private sector and the third sector to say where could we work together. We don't need just to switch spending, we need to pool spending.

"Wasting money is not progressive. When the poorest people in our country pay the most tax, the value for money agenda is a progressive agenda."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012 ... -for-money

This 'radicalism' basically seems to consist entirely of wishy-washy Blairite platitudes. And if you're so concerned about the poorest paying the most tax, you could always, er, tax the rich. Just a thought. I know Creasy's done some good stuff on payday loans but this is desperately uninspiring.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:23 pm

Yeah, I was unimpressed by that too. Who are these people who've claimed it's progressive to waste money?

I don't say every politician has to come out with earth shattering new ideas all the time. Maybe small incremental changes to the Audit Commission are the way to go. But if they talk about "radicalism", then they should have a few ideas.

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