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June 10, 2009
John Rentoul and Margaret Beckett: Never Seen Together
More evidence that inane Blairite cheerleader John Rentoul and Margaret Beckett are in fact the same person.
Rentoul is plugging Beckett as the new Speaker to reform the House of Commons.
http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/89412.html
That's Margaret Beckett, who for years lived in a government "Grace and Favour" mansion as a minister, while at the same time the taxpayer paid the mortgage on her "Second home", while she rented out her "Main home" and pocketed tens of thousands of pounds more cash?
These people really do make me sick. Absolutely shameless.
Posted by craig on June 10, 2009 4:15 PM in the category sleaze
Comments
Both are 'Nosferatu' look-a-likes.
Posted by: xsdogskin at June 10, 2009 5:41 PM
Naughty Naughty
Who named the bmp file for Rentoul?
Posted by: Faux Cul at June 10, 2009 6:39 PM
Oh I forgot, Maggs Beckett is in line to be the new Speaker.
You couldn't make it up.
Posted by: Faux Cul at June 10, 2009 6:41 PM
I thought you were doing a Private Eye Lookalike item here. Both skeletal hags.
PS I always believed her second home was a 'Bailey Pageant' caravan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1524898/Follow-that-caravan---this-is-a-job-for-special-branch.html
Posted by: mary at June 10, 2009 7:07 PM
Carbon-dated Egyptian mummies, at around 3,000 years of age.
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at June 10, 2009 7:15 PM
You can't fool me. Actually they're both Jim Murphy, current Gauleiter for Scotland, and I claim my £5.
http://www.jimmurphymp.com/
Posted by: Vronsy at June 10, 2009 7:16 PM
for anybody who might consider margaret beckett as an appropriate speaker, I suggest they check out the bbc i-player of Question Time ( 14th May).
for any MPs thinking of voting for her....remember....that it's not a secret ballot....and your coats are already hanging on a very shakey nail.
Posted by: yassau nafti at June 10, 2009 8:38 PM
She is second favourite. Incredible.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090610/tuk-beckett-launches-bid-to-be-speaker-6323e80.html
I0 pm BBC News is just revealing a new scandal that has been happening in the Commons. MPs Amess, Hollobone and Hood have not declared their financial interests when asking questions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8093784.stm
Posted by: mary at June 10, 2009 10:19 PM
I feel sick.
Posted by: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill at June 11, 2009 10:33 AM
Daniel,i second that motion...
Posted by: Jives at June 11, 2009 2:37 PM
She's now 5/2 favourite :-(
http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPECIALS&disp_cat_id=56&ev_class_id=33&ev_type_id=11503
I would be surprised if she won, though. When Sir George Young stood for speaker in 2000 his recent front bench experience was held against him; Beckett has been a Minister for most of the past 12 years. The other thing is her manner and voice: would MPs want to put up with them day in, day out? For the same reasons, I think Field and Widdecombe will also fail.
Posted by: SJB at June 11, 2009 5:16 PM
Auch Vronsy's stolen my thunder! Indeed they fall into the ghoul mould along with Jim Murphy.
Mary's news that she's second favourite leaves me in shock. How low will these labour people go to destroy our democracy.
Should anyone be interested I would rather like to see Anne Widdecombe in the green chair.
Posted by: subrosa at June 15, 2009 4:23 PM