A highly embarrassing situation for the worlds leading Irish Republican ^^

bobblepuzzle

Story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/01/gerry_adams_makes_british_parl.html

A resolution of the House of Commons from almost 400 years ago - March 1624 - says an MP cannot directly resign their seat except by death, disqualification or expulsion.

To resign his seat at Westminster to join the Republic of Ireland Dail, Gerry Adams would have to: "A Member wishing to resign has to go through the process of applying for a paid office of the Crown... There are two such offices - Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and of the Manor of Northstead" according to the British House of Commons fact sheet.

A Sinn Fein spokesman told Newsnight that Adams "wrote to the Speaker's office on Friday and informed him of his resignation. It's a non-issue from our perspective. He submitted his resignation and that's it. He's stepped down from that position. He certainly didn't apply for the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead."

:eek:

TheZohanS

Worlds leading Republican? But it doesn't mention Martin McGuinness at all....

bobblepuzzle

TheZohan wrote: »

Worlds leading Republican? But it doesn't mention Martin McGuinness at all....

Meh, that came from the article...

ChunkyLover_53

TheZohan wrote: »

Worlds leading Republican? But it doesn't mention Martin McGuinness at all....

or Glenn Beck

KnifeWRENCH

When I saw thread title, I thought this was gonna be about Sarah Palin.

bobblepuzzle

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

When I saw thread title, I thought this was gonna be about Sarah Palin.

Fixed

macquarie

How frightfully boring

PeterIanStaker

Manor of Northstead? Sounds terribly isolated and out of the way. Bit like a beach in Co. Louth really.

Snakeblood

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/01/gerry_adams_makes_british_parl.html

A resolution of the House of Commons from almost 400 years ago - March 1624 - says an MP cannot directly resign their seat except by death, disqualification or expulsion.

To resign his seat at Westminster to join the Republic of Ireland Dail, Gerry Adams would have to: "A Member wishing to resign has to go through the process of applying for a paid office of the Crown... There are two such offices - Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and of the Manor of Northstead" according to the British House of Commons fact sheet.

A Sinn Fein spokesman told Newsnight that Adams "wrote to the Speaker's office on Friday and informed him of his resignation. It's a non-issue from our perspective. He submitted his resignation and that's it. He's stepped down from that position. He certainly didn't apply for the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead."

:eek:

I'm not really sure how this will bother him more than the corpses, to be honest.

Fratton Fred

it would be hilarious if he resigned from Westminster and didn't win a seat in the Dail.

The world's leading unemployed Irish republican:D

PeterIanStaker

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The world's leading unemployed Irish republican:D

haha that'd be class, an unemployed layabout just like his voters!

Adyx

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

haha that'd be class, an unemployed layabout just like his voters!

Hey! Not all of us unemployed layabouts are Sinn Fein supporters, just so you know.

Nodin

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

haha that'd be class, an unemployed layabout just like his voters!

Aren't you the comedian.

pablomakaveli

Nodin wrote: »

Aren't you the comedian.

Aren't you the killjoy.

Nodin

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/01/gerry_adams_makes_british_parl.html

A resolution of the House of Commons from almost 400 years ago - March 1624 - says an MP cannot directly resign their seat except by death, disqualification or expulsion.

To resign his seat at Westminster to join the Republic of Ireland Dail, Gerry Adams would have to: "A Member wishing to resign has to go through the process of applying for a paid office of the Crown... There are two such offices - Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and of the Manor of Northstead" according to the British House of Commons fact sheet.

A Sinn Fein spokesman told Newsnight that Adams "wrote to the Speaker's office on Friday and informed him of his resignation. It's a non-issue from our perspective. He submitted his resignation and that's it. He's stepped down from that position. He certainly didn't apply for the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead."

:eek:

The beeb are very polite.

We couldn't give a toss [about these rules]. He's not going to apply for these offices. He has sent in a resignation letter like any ordinary person. We want a byelection in West Belfast. There's no written constitution; they just make it up anyway. It's strange men who parade around in tights. Republicans are not losing any sleep over this."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/25/gerry-adams-mp-parliament-rules

Could have sworn New labour were to get rid of all that shite...obviously the tights and walking backwards were to their liking.

mikemac

There's a lot of these obscure rules in the UK

When I was a college layabout and getting up around noon I used to watch Prime Ministers Questiontime

And there used to be a rule if someone unrecognized entered the public gallery an MP could say "I spy strangers" and you could suspend the business going on and clear the gallery

A quick check of BBC gives me this

In the 1880s, an Irish Nationalist MP caused the Prince of Wales to be removed in this way.

Surely there is some quango to tidy up all these

Cranky Mc Funhouse

Ugh.. It also says that if a member of the public needs a poo an officer of the law must provide his hat if a toilet is not present. Idiotic.

pablomakaveli

Cranky Mc Funhouse wrote: »

Ugh.. It also says that if a member of the public needs a poo an officer of the law must provide his hat if a toilet is not present. Idiotic.

I thought that law was for a pregnant woman who needs to pee.

extra-ordinary_

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

haha that'd be class, an unemployed layabout just like his voters!

You think only the unemployed vote for SF?

Wolfe Tone

Wow do we care? Sure he never took his seat anyways



How is this embarrassing for Gerry? I fail to see how it is.

Nodin

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Wow do we care? Sure he never took his seat anyways



How is this embarrassing for Gerry? I fail to see how it is.

I'd say its rather more embarrassing for the men in tights, meself.

"Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham" for fucks sake. Next he'll get a letter written on parchment in latin telling him to roll D20 to see if his Cloak Of Resignation works.....

Sergeant

What was embarrassing was his pitiful performance on Morning Ireland today. I'd expect the leader of one of our political parties to have even a rudimentary understanding of the realities of our economic situation.

gigino

very true, he was pathetic.
maybe he can fool most of his voters from the electorate, the unemployed, though.

biko

Could he just not, you know... WITHDRAW!!??

wyndhurst

Gerry is an embarrassment to SF in the Republic. The man is an imbecile when it comes to economics and this election will be fought purely on economic policy. SF need to copy FG and hide their leader as much as possible.

douglashyde

read this: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0125/breaking20.html

An idealistic mad party which think the solution to Ireland's problem "defaulting" our banks is a good idea - then by all means, work away and exercise your right to throw away your vote.

Only a true dumb dumb would vote for this party with its current manifesto.

Degag

Doesn't he refuse to enter Westminster anyway?

TeddyTedson

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

or Glenn Beck

or Sarah Palin

RichieC

What's the point in having a politics forum?