MR SPEAKER- GO NOW !
Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 10:16AM 
Gorbals Mick - aka House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, should, in the words of the great Oliver Cromwell, in the name of God go!
"Speaker Michael Martin faced calls for his resignation last night over claims that he authorised the unprecedented police raid on the House of Commons. MPs from all three main parties were appalled that detectives were given the green light to enter the Palace of Westminster and search Damian Green’s private office. It is unheard of for an MP to be arrested and his office raided by police in connection with a leak inquiry. Parliamentary orders, designed to ensure an MP’s attendance and work at Westminster cannot be impeded, would have prevented such action had the Commons been sitting, according to constitutional experts. But officers appear to have waited until the parliamentary session ended on Wednesday before mounting their operation. Mr Green’s computer and mobile phone are understood to have been confiscated, along with paper and electronic files. Police were described by Tories as ‘aggressive’ as they marched into the seat of democracy, telling one senior party figure who was present as they searched Mr Green’s office: ‘You are at the site of a crime scene.’ Astonishingly, Mr Green’s parliamentary email account was disabled – leaving his constituents unable to contact him.
This is a monstrous leap towards a Police State and it extraordinary that the Speaker of the House of Commons could have played a role in the authorisation of this Gestapo-like invasion of an MP's offices. I notice that Prudence Brown and others in the Politboro are diving for cover, claiming sweet innocence. This Speaker, the worst in living memory, should go now.
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Reader Comments (13)
I'm absolutely delighted at the arrest of Damian Green.
Oh the Tories are now running round like a bloke with his hair on fire, now that one of their own has been on the end of the police state. But where were they when Christians were being arrested for handing out Christian literature, when a woman was arrested for saying the names of our war dead at the Cenotaph and while every detail of our lives has been logged and watched and recorded and overheard and while we're having our rubbish chipped and we're fined for not putting tin cans in the right bin?
Sitting in the taxpayer-subsidised bar of the Commons with their Labour chums, that where they were, with nothing - absolutely nothing - to say about the Labour's police state.
Crikey, half the Tory MPs support the government on these things, but then they're the parastitical elite and thought themselves outside the rules of the little people.
Their silence makes them complicit in Brown's project to turn us into Zimbabwe. They know the government is stuffed with ex- and not-so-ex- communists. Ministers haven't been reverting to type, they barely hid their true natures all along while dismantling a free nation and rebuilding it in the style of a two bob Third World hellhole.
But now that one of their own has felt the long arm of the police state, oh that's an outrage!
Sorry precious darlings, you're much too late to the scene so excuse my delight, but do make sure you speak up in future.
Pete,
Yeah, good points. In a way they ARE all the same but all the same this is a Zanulabour initiative.
David -
It is a Zanulabour initiative. It is an outrage and a gross impertinence. It's also the partisan act of an arrogant political faction and it betrays how deeply politicised the police have become.
Yet the Tories were nowhere in all the years that Labour was putting in place the laws, the personnel and philosophical base for an act like this.
That this could happen exposes how useless an opposition the Tories have been. If they had been more robust in opposing the authoritarians in government, the Labour establishment and their police lackeys wouldn't have dared perpetrate it.
I've had my Tory MP roll his eyes at me when I've told him that the government is plainly building a police state, that our country is being dismantled. I bet he wasn't so sanguine about it this week.
the great Oliver Cromwell
And you claim to be oppossed to terrorism! lol
the great Oliver Cromwell
And you claim to be oppossed to terrorism! lol
And state authoritarianism.
Next week's post - Oliver Cromwell, the greatest of men?
Its ridiculous that ministers are claiming they didnt know this.
I suppose the best that one can say about this event is that it may wake people up to the type of state we're living in.
If they tolerate this.... what will be next.
Oliver Cromwell, the greatest of men?
Try Oliver Cromwell, regicide and war criminal. The needless slaughter of civilians at Drogheda and Wexford will always haunt his reputation. The only thing in his favour is that his conscience clearly troubled him about them afterwards.
Cromwell was a war criminal, by the standard of his age, this age, of any age.
It will be hard to balance anti terrorist views with support of a thug who actually murdered his king.
If this guy was not guilty of treason, then neither was anybody else in history, including Guy Fawkes and Lord Haw Haw.
Go for it Pete on both counts - your approach on this issue and on Cronwell
How dare you call that monster Cromwell great !! shame shame shame!
Off-topic I know, but here's a good-hearted, truth-telling, right-minded whistle-blowing blogger in deep trouble. Please read it – it may be one of the last.
http://tomisswithlove.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-days-are-numbered.html
In this week of all weeks, when an MP was arrested for trying to expose the government’s dishonesty and incompetence you might like to go over and encourage her and stick it to the people in charge.
Our shared foes.
Spread the word.
Cromwell - the greatest of men. Coming next week.