Gorbals Mick to get tributes
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ianash

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3,285 posts

199 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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At PMQ's on Wednesday the party leaders will be making tributes to the Speaker. I can't imagine why, but as usual they'll be rewards for failure. He'll be kicked up to the Lords so he can continue his troughing. At least we won't have to listen to his incomprehensible pronouncements any more.

FourWheelDrift

91,025 posts

300 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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Paying tribute! Is he dead?


Good.

anonymous-user

70 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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British tradition says that tributes are always paid to speakers, party leaders etc.. even when they have been awful and the tributes are insincere. It's part of what holds our system apart from the barbaric practices of "abroad", just like the Queens speech and black rod. Fullsome tributes will be paid to Winky when he is gone, even though Cameron and the boy Clegg will not mean a word of it. And rightly so. It should be possible to be civilised even when dispatching a mortal and hated enemy.

Bing o

15,184 posts

235 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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O-o-order, o-o-o-order!!

Jasandjules

71,138 posts

245 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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Tribute? Ok, he was the worst speaker in 400 years.

esselte

14,626 posts

283 months

Wednesday 17th June 2009
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unrepentant said:
British tradition says that tributes are always paid to speakers, party leaders etc.. even when they have been awful and the tributes are insincere. It's part of what holds our system apart from the barbaric practices of "abroad", just like the Queens speech and black rod. Fullsome tributes will be paid to Winky when he is gone, even though Cameron and the boy Clegg will not mean a word of it. And rightly so. It should be possible to be civilised even when dispatching a mortal and hated enemy.
Yeah,carrying on the good old political tradition of lying through your teeth...smile