MP sorry for being 'too drunk to vote'

[Fittster]

"A Kent MP has apologised for being drunk in the House of Commons and missing a vote on the Budget.

Mark Reckless said he did not feel it was appropriate to take part in the vote in the early hours of Wednesday because of the amount he had drunk.

The Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood told BBC Radio Kent: "I made a mistake. I'm really sorry about it."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/10590725.s...

What a system.

[SeeFive]

If I was too drunk to do my job, I would be fired. He should be.

[perdu]

Reckless by name...

If this tosser were a Labiaboy do we think it would have made it into BBC's attention span?

But he is a tosser, most laws got passed (if you look at all the stupid "get-out" in them) by drunken idiots

But if not "drunken" certainly idiots

Why couldn't he follow (apparent) established procedures and ask to be shovelled into the necessary lobby?

[Tunku]

I've been too drunk to do my job in the past. I just hand over the big red button to someone else...

[perdu]

Tunku said:

I've been too drunk to do my job in the past. I just hand over the big red button to someone else...

[Fittster]

perdu said:

If this tosser were a Labiaboy do we think it would have made it into BBC's attention span?

Same story:

telegraph

Daily Mail

[HOGEPH]

Too drunk to vote. Is this the much awaited follow up single to the Dead Kennedy's "Too Drunk to F*ck"?

[BigBen]

I drove through Strood on Saturday and concluded that if I had anything to do with the place I would spend a lot more of my time drunk so this mitigates the situation somewhat.

[Somewhatfoolish]

SeeFive said:

If I was too drunk to do my job, I would be fired. He should be.

ain't really a job when all he has to do is walk through the right doorway

[TuxRacer]

Should be sacked.

[The Black Flash]

TuxRacer said:

Should be sacked.

Or formal warning at least.

[Zod]

He's an idiot. I've never met him, but know several who have and my first sentence sums up the general verdict from before he became an MP.

[TuxRacer]

Also, having used an estate agency called Crook and Blight, I fear we don't read enough into names.

[MX7]

The need to get the recalling sorted out.

[jmorgan]

Easy solution, shut the bar until voting is done, might get things rushed though............

[loltolhurst]

more concerned about this!


"Stephen Pound, the Labour MP, said Miss Eagle could not be heard in the Commons “because of the well-refreshed ejaculations from the benches opposite”. "

[OnTheOverrun]

SeeFive said:

If I was too drunk to do my job, I would be fired. He should be.

No you wouldn't, you'd ring in with a mysterious Monday morning 'tummy bug' like my employees do regularly. . . . . . . .

He may not be bright, but at least he was honest.

[172ff]

Off with his head!

Has Cameron made comment yet?