Hugh Reilly: More pay and longer holidays … so, can I count on your vote?

I ALWAYS had the nagging suspicion that Michael Martin's elevation to the post of Speaker was something of triumph for the government's policy of social inclusion.

Last week, he resigned, but did he jump or was he pushed? Well, he wasn't so much pushed as whacked by Westminster "Goodfellas" and bundled into the trunk of a ministerial car to be driven to a remote location. Inside that dark trunk, one can only im...