English snobbery can do a morris dance of delight at the political demise of the Speaker, Michael Martin. The bigots have put the taigs back in their place. Above all the MPs desperately seeking solace from the evisceration of the expenses scandal hope this will be enough to staunch the haemorrhage in public confidence.
For a certain class of Englishman every Catholic is a Mick and every working-class Scot is from the Gorbals.
Unfortunately for George Galloway amongst the signatories to the petition to remove Martin were not just "bigotted English snobs" but also Scottish (Norman Baker, Jo Swinson and Gordon Prentice), Irish (Kate Hoey) and Welsh Steven Williams) MPs. And Martin didn't lose his position due to some lingering remnants of 17th century religious bigotry (Sammy Wilson was one of the few Mps left still batting for the Speaker by the end for crying out loud!), but for mainly the reasons the one-time pussy cat himself then rather bizarrely goes on to illustrate.
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People like that are inadvertently betraying their own petty prejudices; especially Loud Mouths like Galloway.
This anti-working class catholic stuff really anoys me. Ig MPs were so bigoted why did they vote for him in the first place, Did they mistake his accent for one honned at Eton? did they ony become aware of his religion after his election?
Drivel, drivel drivel George. I must call his takl show ths weekend and tell him persnally - ill out working class him!. The irony is that Micachel martin is tthe type of pork barrel right wing labourite that George grew up opposing - Michael given half a chance would have booted George out the party about 1985!
So who is being tribal here George? Celtic season ticket holders with MP after their name Id say. Oh and a an Arcbishop in Glasgow who says "poot michael" on te same day as deacdes of sysetmatic sexual abuse of vulnerable kids is being revealed in Dublin, And of course it happeed in Glasgow, still is. But poor poor michael, hounded out by bigots!
Hounded out by his own mistakes and stupidity - but soon to be enobled, pensionedm feted, the lot. Oh to be the victim of such biuas,cruelty and bigotry.
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