Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
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Well, everyone else appears to be speculating, so for what it's worth... I wouldn't back against George Young as Speaker.
The hacks should be well pleased with the 6th Baronet Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young (Eton and Oxford) though. No more "Gorballs Mick" to patronise, and Young is always ready with a throwaway quip for the media. He was the Housing Minister who once joked that 'the homeless are the sort of people you step over when you come out of the opera'. According to They Work for You he is strongly against the hunting ban, moderately against equal gay rights, and in strongly favour of Trident renewal. Just the sort of man we need to get parliament to re-engage with the people.
Brian Hughes said:
June 22, 2009 10:22 AM | permalink
Support Parmjit! The only candidate (apart from Sir Alan Beith and the two deputy speakers who weren't allowed to vote) not to vote, in the words of They Work for You, "very strongly" in favour of the Iraq War.
Don't forget, Bob, that Young "Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament". I think in time Rowan Williams should be speaker, is this possible?
But no doubt you would have happy with the 2nd Viscount Stansgate and product of Westminster School! The Speaker is the servant of the Commons and in the end a divided House got a divise Speaker, which is exactly what they deserve.
Of course I wouldn't. The Speaker should be a member of the House of Commons. Although at least Benn did the decent thing and threw off the trappings landed on him by his relatives.
June 22, 2009 10:22 AM | permalink
Support Parmjit! The only candidate (apart from Sir Alan Beith and the two deputy speakers who weren't allowed to vote) not to vote, in the words of They Work for You, "very strongly" in favour of the Iraq War.
And the only Gloucestershire MP in the race...