'Baron Martin of Springburn, of Port Dundas in the City of Glasgow'

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120980 9/Lord-Gorbals-Michael-Martins-controversial-p eerage-confirmed-middle-Parliamentary-recess.h tml

Nice work if you can get it.

He failed in his job as the 'Speaker of the House', and was forced to step down. The first Speaker to resign in more than 300years.

But did he disappear into obscurity, no, he has been made a peer of the realm.

Doesn't his appointment now damage the reputation and credibility of the House of Lords?

And he is still riding the 'Gravy Train'

As an ex-Speaker, 63-year-old Mr Martin is entitled to an annual pension of around �38,000. When his MP's pension kicks in at 65, the former sheet metal worker will be receiving around �80,000 from tax-payer-funded pension pots worth �1.4million.

As a peer he would also qualify for �174 for each night he spends in London on Lords' business, adding up to a possible �25,000 a year, and he may claim �3,000 in office costs.

[jno]

Doesn't his appointment now damage the reputation and credibility of the House of Lords?

The what???

[Sqad]

LOl....with the General Election some months away with a Conservative victory inevitable, do you think that Baron Martin cares a "toss" about what people think?..........I wouldn't.

You really have to be thick skinned to enter the Lords and brass necked.........he will fit in nicely.

[sag]

Another reward for failure from this 'lame duck' Government.