http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6591122.ece
“Tell us the truth, Mr Brown: Would he lie to us? Extracting a candid answer from the prime minister isn’t easy, especially on public spending”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6590638.ece
“Profile: John Bercow: Little Mr Turncoat in an awfully big chair”
“New Speaker John Bercow’s vow to improve the conduct of MPs suffered an embarrassing setback yesterday after it was revealed that he had to pay a repair bill for smashing down a House of Commons door. Hot-headed Mr Bercow told police to break into an office in the Houses of Parliament when they could not find the key. He was accused of vandalism and agreed to foot the bill for fixing it”
(EDITOR: Sounds a bit like a clown...)
“John Bercow, the new Speaker of the House of Commons, called for a programme of "assisted repatriation" of immigrants during his time as a member of a far-right political group, it has emerged”
(EDITOR: Digging the dirt, or dragging the pond?)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/jun/27/1
“The new Speaker's first edict to ministers - to stop announcing policy via the media - has been roundly ignored”
“Alan Watkins: Labour's backbenchers are revolting: The government's MPs want to pick a fight, whether its over the Speaker or the Iraq war inquiry”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8119975.stm
“From the choice of a new Speaker to what the Conservatives described as a "u-turn in slow motion" over the terms of reference for the Iraq inquiry, it has felt as if we are standing still whilst the world moves around us”
http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/33899/letter-from-westminster-250609
“It is a little known fact that the House of Commons starts its business every day with prayers. These take the same form every day and include an entreaty for us not to be motivated by a desire to please or unworthy ideals. Curiously the house did not have prayers at the start of business on Monday as it met to choose the new Speaker. Doubtless there will be a reason for that which has long since been lost in the mists of time.” (Writes Alistair Carmichael in the Shetland Times)
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Brian-Monteith-Bercow--is.5404848.jp
“Brian Monteith: Bercow is MPs' chance to change”
“Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, has defended the high salaries and lavish expense accounts enjoyed by the corporation's most senior executives”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8121728.stm
“After Tory Douglas Hogg's moat cleaning, and former Labour Deputy prime minister John Prescott's Tudor beams, we now have BBC boss Mark Thompson's Cessna charter”
“MP fights challenge after comparing Brown to Foot is criticisms of the Prime Minister prompted a member of his local party to try to table a motion of no confidence in the MP last week. The motion fell after a narrow majority of activists voted against debating its contents.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6591262.ece
“ALISTAIR DARLING will keep voters in the dark about the government’s true spending plans for the next parliament, provoking a new row with the Tories. The chancellor has abandoned plans for a comprehensive spending review, which should have been held this year, until after the general election”
(EDITOR: Oh, Darling! How could you? Easy. He had training from a master...)
“Former Cabinet Minister Alan Milburn is to quit as MP for Darlington at the next election”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/8580692
“Tory leader David Cameron has warned the SNP not to "obstruct" a replacement for the Trident missile system if his party wins the next election”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/28/tridented-115875-21477554/
“Gordon Brown has ordered a major review of a £20billlion plan to replace Britain's ageing Trident nuclear missile system”
“The Prime Minister said the aviation industry could be a potential source of revenue for a multi-billion-pound fund to tackle global warming”
(EDITOR: If the fares soar, then there will be less flights, so less income. Though this could be argued to potentially reduce pollution. But that's the last thing Brown wants. As Brown wants the aviation industry to be a 'potential source of revenue.')
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Serious39-financial-allegations-against-Aberdeen.5404473.jp
“THE new deputy leader of the ruling Liberal Democrat group on Aberdeen City Council was yesterday at the centre of allegations of "serious" financial irregularities. Veteran councillor Scott Cassie was elected to the deputy leader's post on Monday night, following a "coup" which led to administration leader Kate Dean being deposed from her post”
“Labour to abandon target culture, indicates Liam Byrne”
(EDITOR: A bit late now, perhaps?)
“The two British hostages in Iraq whose bodies were passed to British embassy officials in Baghdad last weekend may have been dead for 18 months, according to officials familiar with the investigation. The fact that British kidnap experts involved in efforts to free the men - and three others kidnapped with them in May, 2007 - had no idea that the two had been dead for so long has shocked investigators”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/8579573
“The Tories were wrong to oppose devolution for Scotland, party leader David Cameron has conceded”
(EDITOR: The fact that Labour has been booted from power in Scotland might make Labour concede they were wrong to support devolution. However, it's a tricky thing, this democracy. People sometimes make up their own minds on how they should vote! Remarkable!)
And that's it for this morning. I have a fairly large scale event to cover today (but a 'fun' event, so my wife and I are looking forward to it) so there will probably not be any updates until very late Sunday evening or Monday morning.
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