Paul Waugh: Martin to resign

Man waiting for the Clapham Common omnibus

Any guesses on the payoff?

Vulture

One down. 645 to go.
General election now!

Julianlzb87

Oh well... now Gordon Brown has a further opportunity to demonstrate his
contempt for democracy by appointing the man that inspires no confidence
in to the Lords whilst Martins seat
passes on to his son. Puhyook.

Edward Palmer

One down, 645 to go!

Mike, Brighton

A good but very small step in the right direction.

Now why do certified expenses troughers such as Hoon, Blears, Darling and Balls/Cooper sit in Cabinet? Maude and Duncan in the Shadow Cabinet?

All should be sacked

Christopher Bowring

If this is true, let's hope Mr Martin is composing a more elegant statement than the one he delivered yesterday. It would be good for him and for his office if he were to depart with some grace.

mac

Fevered, contortionist ferrets in the sack late last night?

This will take the immediate heat off both the appalling Browns. The Brown bunker simply couldn't afford another stalemate to be attributed to Brown's mulishness at Martin's 'way forward' meeting today, could they?

What price has Martin exacted? Undoubtedly something which will provoke more public disgust and deservedly cause more damage downstream for Brown&co.

Minie Ovens

One down, a Government to go.

Mr Green

Is he waiting until 2:30 so that he can get his expenses form signed before he leaves?

Invicta

A huge wedge of cash and a Peerage?

Liz Brown

I hope no elevation to the Lords for him. When is gormless going to follow?

Norman Dawes

He was a sheet metal worker and a sheet Speaker too.

Austin Barry

Order, order, Coffee Housers. Mr Martin appears to be suffering from incipient senile dementia and you should not judge him too harshly for his current bewilderment. No doubt in a few years the Bide-a-Wee nursing Home in Balloch will echo to plaintive cries of 'Order, order, Ms Hoey' and we shall be ashamed.

Tiberius

It's two down, one government to go.

Boris thrashed Livingstone, remember.

Chingford Man

Another summer; another Glasgow by-election against a sleazy backdrop; another set of Fraser articles about the sheer rottenness of Scottish Labour, appalling life expectancy, welfare dependency, etc., another desperate trawl of Glasgow politics to find a sucker to carry the Labour rosette.

And another SNP gain.

Austin Barry

Chingford Man

More like another dodgy postal ballot win for Labour.

bitter and twisted

MM must go straightaway. He must not put it off till the next election, or be compensated with a seat in the Lords.
But it shouldn't end there. His expenses must be scrutinised like everyone else's and any 'errors' etc rectified.

Verity

Postal balloting has to be returned to its former status as voting of last resort for those who are too ill to get to the polling station and those who are overseas. Tribal bloc postal voting organised by the local "uncle" is undemocratic, unprincipled and unBritish. It was Labour who brought in this sleazy Third World habit.

John Lea

Mike (Brighton) - not just sacked, but prosecuted.