Anti-Blair jibe leads to Commons expulsion

Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price, who is leading the campaign to impeach Tony Blair, was today ordered out of the Commons chamber after refusing to withdraw comments that the prime minister had "misled" the house over the war in Iraq.

Mr Price said tomorrow was the second anniversary of the vote on going to war with Iraq and the "motion of impeachment (of Mr Blair)is before us".

"There is compelling evidence that the prime minister misled this house in taking us to war," he said. "Isn't it high time we held him to account?"

Commons Speaker Michael Martin order Mr Price to leave the chamber after he refused his request to withdraw the remark.

As well as campaigning for Mr Blair to be impeached for his conduct in the Commons, Mr Price is working with the musician Brian Eno to find a "white suit" candidate to take on the prime minister in his Sedgefield constituency at the general election.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,1440142,00.html




Adam Price leaves the Commons
after refusing to withdraw his remarks. Picture: PA

Don't you have to be British?

tight....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/correspondents/newsid_2625000/2625151.stm

He ran against a Tory minister in 1997 who had been caught taking money from Mohammed Fayed to ask questions in parliament (not illegal, but highly unethical). The Tory had a large majority in his constituency, and his local party thought they could get away with supporting him. Most of the other parties withdrew, to allow Bell a straight run at Hamilton, and Bell won. His 'lucky white suit' dated from his reporting days. Bell was a good, honest MP - he'd said he would only stand for one term in that constituency, and so, even though he was popular, he did stand down in the 2001 election.

I have no opinion on Welsh independence, but I'd vote for him like a shot if I could.

I wasn't familiar with his name before, but now he has joined my personal list of heroes.