Gorbals Mick to get tributes

[ianash]

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]

Paying tribute! Is he dead?


Good.

[unrepentant]

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]

O-o-order, o-o-o-order!!

[Jasandjules]

Tribute? Ok, he was the worst speaker in 400 years.

[esselte]

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...