Punctuality Pickles doesn't deserve the money Mable

It is now coming up to two weeks since the British public had a rare insight into the weirdly warped mind of the Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MP, through the window afforded by Question Time. I have earlier provided a transcript of the explanation by the self-destructing 'clockwork' nincompoop who seems to assume that only Maggot MP have time constraints in performing their jobs, but here is the video now on YouTube which if anything comes over as even more breathtakingly arrogant and insufferable where the whole bearing of the man seems to indicate a lifestyle of indolence and over-indulgence thus adding to the disgraceful nature of the excuses he provides for an act of pure selfish greed: Now it is Question Time for David Cameron Leader of the main opposition party The Conservatives, who alone appoints the Party Chairman -"WHY, TWO WEEKS TOMORROW SINCE THIS NATIONALLY TELEVISED DISASTER TOOK PLACE, IS THIS MAN STILL CHAIRMAN OF YOUR PARTY , HAVE YOU NO SHAME EITHER?" (Any wondering"Why Mable?" in this posting's title - Click here.)

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Last evening's Question Time from PoliticsHome, linked here.

The relevant extract is below. To watch the video click HERE and go to minute 44.

David Dimbleby began by asking Mr Pickles if he claims for a second home:

EP: “I do indeed have a two house system and an allowance. But if I could just make a brief contribution –

DD; “How far away from Westminster are you?”

EP: “Thirty seven miles.”

[Boos from the audience]

EP: “And if I could just make this brief contribution to hang an MP week -“

DD: “Take your time! Take your time!” EP: “OK, then let me explain why. And I have actually had experience of commuting that distance, when my wife was ill (she’s fully recovered now) – but for a month I did it. And it was an extremely difficult experience and I’ll explain why. Because the House of Commons works on clockwork: you have to be there, if you’re on a committee, you have to be there precisely. Particularly for someone like me, I was a number two –“ [Boos from the audience]

EP: “Let me explain, let me explain, please just let me explain for a moment. I had to be there –“

DD: “Like a job, in other words?”

[applause and laughter from audience]

EP: “Yes exactly like a job. If you’re number two in the opposition, you’re essentially running the committee. So I needed to be there at 930 to move those amendments. It doesn’t matter if a Liberal Democrat isn’t there, but it matters if I’m there –“

Ed Davey: “That’s just cheap”

EP: “When I was doing this, I was leaving home at five thirty in the morning to guarantee that I was there and I wasn’t getting back until twelve or one in the morning. Now you can do that once or twice, you can do that for a while. But you’ve got to understand, the House of Commons runs like clockwork.”

Caroline Lucas: “So does the rest of the world, Eric.”

EP: “And I have never, ever claimed my full allowance. I have always claimed the amount –“

[jeers from audience]

EP: “Well I mean, I publish them. I’ve always published them on my website. They’ve always been there for people to see. I have always been accountable. And I can tell you, I think the things are going to come out in a week’s time. I think I’ve only claimed about sixty percent of the allowance, it might even be fifty five percent. But I’m a serious guy who will put in the hours. And I will work for those hours. But I can tell you this: it is no fun doing five thirty in the morning right the way through. You cannot be sat on a train thinking ‘am I going to make it? Am I not going to make it?’ That’s why I do it.”

Audience Member: “Do you think Fred Goodwin should give some of his pension back Eric?”

EP: “Yeah, I do.”

Audience Member: “Right - that’s because he’s behaved immorally, unreasonably perhaps. But he’s played within the rules! Don’t you think that’s a bit hypocritical?”

EP: “I had my flat – I bought my flat when we regularly sitting until two in the morning. I bought my flat when we did that. I bought that flat because it turned out –“

[Audience member: “sell it!”]

EP: “OK well I’ll sell it. Of course I could sell it. I am never going to be able to satisfy you folks, at all, because I am an MP and therefore guilty.”

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