VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspirator

[Rumpole]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

'allo Buffoon HaLEEmah YaCULT, please watch this video and learn!

@ 0:49 to 1:22 – John Bercow: “I would discharge my duties IMPARTIALY, not just between parties but between individual members. Above all, I would defend the rights of backbenchers to hold the government to account and to champion the causes dear to their hearts.”

@ 5:44 to 8:30 – The Right Honourable Member for Kensington, who has been in the House long enough to see six different Speakers summaries what in his view are the 3 essential requirements for a Speaker to have:

1) Be absolutely fair as between individual members;

2) Use his/her great power and authority in the House with flexibility and on occasion with humour to control the temperature; and

3) Act as the Champion of the Backbenchers against the Government front bench (i.e. Ministers).

[video=youtube;Gi1mQyYsMis]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi1mQyYsMis[/video]

 

[dredd]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

another ACT BLUR THINK SMART

what she cares is end of the month she gets her SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE salary

The last speaker cares about mangoes and cheebye

 

[Leungsam]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

Left hand talk to right hand, what do you think?

 

[steffychun]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

Hawker Centre cleaning – Politics is about scoring political point

It is amazing but not surprising that the cleaning of a hawker centre and who should pay for it could drag on for months and wasting so much of Parliament’s time and the time of Ministers and MPs.

Should not this be a simple case of administrative procedures? The cleaning of a hawker centre is not something new and has been going on for years. All the precedents are there as to whether the hawkers should pay or it is part of the cost that the hawkers have been paying monthly Is this dragging on and on, and after yesterday’s Parliament session it does not seem to end and many more months of scratching at each other will go on. Is this an in thing, to bitch over such issues in Parliament when it should have been settled over a few meetings in the Minister’s office or in the Town Council?

But of course, this is all about politics, about scoring political points, about integrity, about being honourable, about bitching in Parliament over an administrative and procedural matter, and about everything and about nothing.

Should the Speaker of Parliament tell the contending parties to sort it out over a meeting outside Parliament? Or should the issue continue to be aired in Parliament to see who is the more honourable one or who has more integrity over this matter? Or is Parliament a venue to see who is better in debating?

http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.sg/...ign=Feed:+MySingaporeNews+(My+Singapore+News)

In other Westminster countries, the Speaker can tell the government minister to shut up. John Bercow in the UK has done that to Cameron, despite having been from his party.

In Singapore, the Speaker tell the government Minister, please continue to attack the opposition, I cheer for you.

 

[Confuseous]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

Buffoon HaLEEmah YaCULT obviously “catch no ball” on the role of Speaker in a Westminster style parliamentary democracy that Sinkieland is supposed to have. Doesn’t appreciate the importance of impartiality and her role as “champion of the backbenchers”.

Looks like my reservations about her have proven to be correct:

http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?...TED-and-the-Whip-lifted&p=1366054#post1366054

http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?...holding-Govt-to-Account&p=1392265#post1392265

She got the job because the other m&d lost the erection in Aljunied GRC. To win Malay votes, PAP said that the fella was qualified for high office. So to be seen to be keeping promises to the m&d community, Halimah got lucky. There were no compelling reason to appoint her. Immortal Charles Chong was deputy speaker fell from grace but was passed over. Charles Chong is mortal afterall.

 

[leetahbar]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

it's all a big wayang...maybe a bit too early for the 7th month ghosts festival. vivian is probably eyeing for the best actor award, the new pap's posterboy title.

 

[steffychun]

Re: VB's waste of parliament's time to politic is disgraceful. Halimah is co-conspira

She got the job because the other m&d lost the erection in Aljunied GRC. To win Malay votes, PAP said that the fella was qualified for high office. So to be seen to be keeping promises to the m&d community, Halimah got lucky. There were no compelling reason to appoint her. Immortal Charles Chong was deputy speaker fell from grace but was passed over. Charles Chong is mortal afterall.

Charles Chong was given Deputy Speaker like the Emperor giving Tarkin control of the Death Star I in Star Wars. They knew he was a flop.