It Wasn't Me!

Lord Gorbals of Mick in the county of Trough has shamelessly tried to put his hands in the air and

blame the Serjeant at Arms

for allowing the police, without a warrant, to enter Parliament and detain a Member.

"The Metropolitan Police has "strongly refuted" a suggestion that a senior officer tricked a Commons official over the search of a Tory MP's office.

Lord Martin told the committee on policing and Parliament he had been "let down" by Serjeant at Arms Jill Pay who failed to require a warrant for the search.

But he said when he asked her to explain her conduct, her boss Malcolm Jack, the Commons Clerk and chief executive, had stepped in and suggested she had been influenced by the police.

Lord Martin said: "The Clerk of the House intervened to say that Chief Superintendent Bateman had bamboozled the Serjeant and tricked her into keeping the matter from her immediate superiors."

A spokesman for the Met said it was "surprised" by the suggestion"

TB would expect this sort of cowardice from Martin's bestest friend Fatty Foulkes, but once again the man has sunk to new lows in his constant desire to prove to the world his total and utter lack of dignity, intelligence, respect, or grasp of reality. You can just imagine Speaker Lenthall trying the same line:

"May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here, and I humbly beg Your Majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what Your Majesty is pleased to demand of me... Try the Serjeant at Arms though. She's a soft touch."

The man is a disgrace, and enough of a reason to see the House of Lords reformed now.