Speaker of the House Steps Down...

[Kaliayev]

Originally Posted by tw

I keep hearing that Brown is also all but a lame duck. What are the details behind that speculation?

Well, he had to rely on the Democratic Unionists to get anti-terrorism legislation through Parliament last year.

Things have got worse since then.

Personally, being a professional political iconoclast, the expenses scandal has been like Christmas come early. I think Ian Hislop said it best "on any normal week, one of these stories would have been front page news, for the whole week. Having thirty of them come at once..."

Also, the class divide in how the expenses were misused is telling. Labour uses it to turn a quick buck on houses, or expensive food. The Tories abuse it for gardening expenses and cleaning moats. The Lib Dems? Trouser presses and packets of biscuits. Seriously guys, letting the side down there. This was getting into African dictatorship territory, before the Lib Dems mucked it up.