Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Amazing.  Just amazing.  You would have thought that after showing blatant political bias a Speaker, spending more than £20,000 of taxpayers’ money on lawyers to challenge negative press stories about yourself, using taxpayers’ money for your wife’s taxis, claiming £17,166 towards the cost of his Glasgow constituency home even though he no longer paid a mortgage, using air [...]

“It needs to be someone who has achieved some standing. I suppose they could drag me back.”
- disgraced ex-Tory MP Neil Hamilton, contemplating Michael Martin’s successor as the new Speaker.

Dear Michael Martin,
At last, you’ve done something that people approve of.  While many people’s focus has already shifted to your successor following your resignation announcement, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of why you should be ashamed of your performance as Speaker of the House of Commons – a position that [...]

“I think he should have spent the recess trying to clean up Westminster, not racking up an ever higher bill for the taxpayer. Westminster stinks, and part of the rot is MPs and their expenses, and if you had a Speaker who was up to the job of being Speaker, he would have called time on [...]

Dear Michael Martin,
I wrote a suitably foul-tempered letter to Harriet Harman yesterday when she tried to bury bad news on the u-turn performed by the government with regard to MPs’ expenses.  Having since studied the newly updated Green Book, which explains to MPs what they can and cannot claim for, I am truly sickened by the [...]

Dear Michael Martin,
First and foremost I would like to say congratulations for remaining in your job for so long, even though you lost the confidence of MPs and the public many months ago.  Derek Conway only lasted a few days but through some clever wheeling-and-dealing you have escaped with your role as Speaker in tact.  [...]

Dear Michael Martin,
Not content with screwing the taxpayer yourself, the Speaker’s committee proposals for reforming the expenses system for MP’s is just unbelievable.  Only a matter of days ago we learnt that Gordon Brown charged the taxpayer £372 for Sky TV, Tony Blair got the taxpayer to fund his nice new £11,200 kitcken, Barbara Follett charged us [...]

Dear Michael Martin,
I don’t mean to blow my own political trumpet, but a few days ago I made the following statement in a letter to you: ”Your feet-stomping antics throughout the debate about MPs’ expenses makes me think two things: firstly, that you are not acting in the best interests of politics in this country; and [...]

Dear Michael Martin,
Talk about a dog with a bone.  You just don’t give up, do you!  Having been bypassed and overruled on several occasions recently about MPs’ expenses, you obviously feel a need to make your own personal contribution to wasting taxpayers’ money by blowing £100,000 on trying to stop an investigation into MPs wasting [...]