Dear Sir,

About three weeks ago, when Marc Bean was censured in the House of Assembly, he told the press that the Speaker of the House, Randy Horton, ran the censure debate so badly that it prevented Mr Bean from defending himself.

He said the Opposition was putting forward its own censure motion against the Speaker because his position “is no longer tenable”.

Mr Bean then declared that “next week will be the last week that Randy Horton will be a Member of Parliament in this House”.

Well, next week has been and gone, Randy Horton’s still in his chair, and the Opposition motion against him still hasn’t been debated.

I can’t help feeling sorry for the Speaker. The Motion the PLP tabled was pretty unpleasant – they said he suppressed debate and brought Parliament into disrepute by abusing his position; they said he displayed “a woeful ignorance and lack of understanding of Standing Orders of the House of Assembly and the basic parliamentary procedure”.

Woeful ignorance? That’s nasty stuff. But it’s made worse by the Opposition letting it drift on from week to week without taking it up.

They should either get on with it or drop it. What is it they say? Justice delayed is justice denied.

I think they’ll have to drop it. I listened to the censure motion against the Opposition Leader and, to me, Randy Horton had very little to do with the licks Marc Bean got.

The problem was that Mr Bean just didn’t know how to stick to the point.

He needs to get himself a lesson in what’s admissible as evidence and what’s not.

Maybe sit and listen to a couple of cases in the Supreme Court.

Cabbie