Friday, December 09, 2005
Boy George And The Beast Of Bolsover.
Dennis Skinner is one of the last real old Labour MP's, and he was on top form the other day when he rose to speak during Treasury questions.
Commenting on Chancellor Gordon Brown's forecast of 1.75% growth which, of course, is being seized upon by the Conservative party as a dreadful disaster, Dennis referred back to Thatcher's 1980's, and said: "The only thing that was growing then was the lines of coke in front of Boy George and the rest of the Tories."
The Speaker of the House, Michael Martin, chucked him out for the rest of the day, and Boy George (George Osborne, Tory shadow chancellor) later said it was "pretty desperate and personal stuff."
It's not the first time Dennis has been thrown out of the chamber for speaking his and many others mind, and no doubt it wont be the last. It's refreshing to hear the only too rare truth being spoken by a genuine Labour MP.
Commenting on Chancellor Gordon Brown's forecast of 1.75% growth which, of course, is being seized upon by the Conservative party as a dreadful disaster, Dennis referred back to Thatcher's 1980's, and said: "The only thing that was growing then was the lines of coke in front of Boy George and the rest of the Tories."
The Speaker of the House, Michael Martin, chucked him out for the rest of the day, and Boy George (George Osborne, Tory shadow chancellor) later said it was "pretty desperate and personal stuff."
It's not the first time Dennis has been thrown out of the chamber for speaking his and many others mind, and no doubt it wont be the last. It's refreshing to hear the only too rare truth being spoken by a genuine Labour MP.
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