Farages reprimand stands
So Farage went to see Jerzy Buzek this afternoon, to have his hand slapped after his speechJerzy Buzek, the parliament’s president, has summoned Mr Farage for a meetingwhere he will be told to “restrain his language and refrain from making impropercomments in the chamber” or face disciplinary action.The meetig took place and went something like this.NF: "So, what is my punishment?"JB: "There will be no punishment but my reprimand stands"NF: "What was wrong with my speech?

Two videos that say much of our new system of Governance
The next one follows on and shows an attempt to slap Farage down from the chair. I think Buzek believes that Farage uses unparliamentarily language. But he doesn't. What bothers Buzek is unparliamentarily thoughts.

"Near where the chartered Thames does flow"...
stands the Speaker's House. From within we hear the untuous sub-Sinden tones of the Speaker himself.And boy does he want evereything to be centralling controlled.Next up applications to stand for political parties. According to the Independent,"Political parties are to be forced to declare how many women, ethnic minority and disabled applicants they reject as potential parliamentary candidates under cross-party plans backed by Commons Speaker John Bercow. ""To monitor progress properl

Should the Commons sit through the summer
Just a thought on the Guardian's reporting of the Tory proposal to have the House of Commons sitting through August next year. A proposal welcomed by Con Home amongst others.If these could be described as the 'Re-Peal Sessions' then yes there is value in the idea.But, but are you sure that you want a bunch of politicians spending even more time coming up with legislation?Hundreds of politcians all trying to make a name for

It must be an awful lot.
Bob Spink asked a pertinant question of the Home Office a couple of days ago,To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what grants his Department made to charitable organisations in each of the last five years.The Minister's answ