Comments on: Anyone But Beckett? Please?!

By: ladytizzy

ladytizzy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:12:45 +0000

cough

By: patently

patently — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:28:24 +0000

Yes, but what a message. Voters reject the Speaker – the Speaker – in favour of a clean hands candidate. Talk about a giant killing.

You’d change British politics forever. You’d be in history books.

You might even be able to change the Commons dress code.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:37:22 +0000

You’re technically right, of course, she’d be an independent, but with somebody as partisan as Ms Beckett I’d find it hard to see her as anything other than still Labour-at-heart.

Which is fair enough, really, since Derby is still a strongly Labour-at-heart area.

As for running as a ‘clean hands’ candidate, there’s novelty and amusement value in the idea, so thank you It would, however, be a fairly pointless escapade, methinks, since I’m not what you would call parliamentary material. Which is to say I don’t think they let people in the Commons chamber who are wearing jeans and a tee shirt…

By: MatGB

MatGB — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:13:34 +0000

Actually, no. If she becomes Speaker, she ceases to be a Labour MP and becomes an Independent “servant of the House”.

Which means the other Parliamentary parties won’t even put up a candidate against her, so it might makes things a bit more interesting—fancy running as a “clean hands” candidate? It’d be you vs her with no other main party involved.