The cock crowed thrice

Three Questions today in the Commons. Three times the Coalition is wrong.

The lobbying consultation is a limp surrender to the lobbyists.

Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab): The tentacles of the corrupt and semi-corrupt lobbying system have sunk deep into the body politic. If politics is to be reformed and confidence in the House and politics restored, major reform is essential. Unfortunately, the consultation document shows that instead of listening to what the Prime Minister said when in opposition, the Government have spent their time listening to lobbyists lobbying about lobbying.

Nuclear power is uninsurable. The world’s only two new nuclear plants are three years late and £2 and £3 billion over budget. The nuclear subsidy could be £42 per year for all customers.

Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab): Why do the Government move with the speed of a striking cobra when they are slashing support for essential renewable energy, but with the speed of an arthritic sloth when it comes to recognising the subsidies that will be essential for nuclear power in future?

Gregory Barker: First, we are not subsidising nuclear power. Secondly, we are introducing a very dynamic system of tariffs that I think other countries will now try to copy. I think that rather than being the slow man in Europe in renewable deployment, we shall be in the fast lane.

The rushed report on the Liam Fox /Adam Werritty scandal mentioned only 2 of 5 meetings between the freewheeling pair and Israelis. That’s spelt Mossad. The Independent Adviser has gone. Can we ignore the possibility that Liam Fox was conducting a dangerous private Foreign Policy? The Committee will report. I am on that committee.

Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab): As Sir Philip Mawer has resigned his post and said that he believes he should have been the person who inquired into the Adam Werritty affair, should we not look at this again to make sure we have a thorough investigation into that affair because of the real possibility that the former Secretary of State for Defence was conducting his own private foreign policy that could lead us into a war with Iran?

Sir George Young: I have seen the evidence that Sir Philip Mawer gave before the Select Committee on Public Administration, and I have seen the exchange with the hon. Gentleman. It would make sense to await the Committee’s report before coming to a view on this issue, but he will know that the Cabinet Secretary produced his report, which led to the resignation of my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Defence, and we regard the matter as now closed.

 

 

 

Comments

[DG]

Maybe a bit of sabre-rattling with Argentina will be wargasmic enough that we can sit the Iranian disaster-in-waiting out.

[Paul Flynn]

The game of sabre rattling loses its charm when the body bags are returned home.

[DG]

I'm not sure that those who do the rattling really care about that.

[Miss Represented]

'The cock crowed thrice'

Sorry, just an aside re the title of this post: One thing I don't understand about 'Christianity' and its ongoing demonization of certain people, is if the cock hadn't crowed thrice, and if Judas (and Paul) hadn't betrayed Jesus leading to his crucifixion, then (according to so-called Christian doctrine) humankind wouldn't have been saved from eternal damnation.