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July 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Retiring MP Harry Jenkins says he stepped down from the speaker’s chair because he was concerned about Labor’s tenuous hold on government, not because he was pushed out in a backroom deal.
Mr Jenkins announced on Thursday he would retire from the Victorian seat of Scullin at the next election.
He was Speaker of the parliament from 2007 until November 2011.
The uncertainty of the government’s numbers in the House of Representatives and the independency of the chair which prevented him from participating in policy debates were factors in his decision on resign the speakership last November.
Mr Jenkins said he had no regrets about that decision.
“There was an element of that crude political calculation, and there was an element of broader political concerns that I wanted to be involved as a politician in much of the work of a parliamentarian,” he told ABC Television on Thursday.
Mr Jenkins dismissed the notion that others in the Labor Party had forced him from the Speaker’s chair.
“The decision was mine,” he said.
“… no deal, promised nothing, asked for nothing, and I am very happy with that.”
His move gave Labor an extra vote on the floor.
Despite Labor’s poor showing in the opinion polls, Mr Jenkins said Prime Minister Julia Gillard should lead the party to the next election.
“She has displayed, as I have indicated in other places, a degree of determination and tenacity that you don’t see in a lot of members of parliament,” he said.
Mr Jenkins said Ms Gillard should be allowed to set the path for the party.
“Our role is to be talking about the issues of the day, not worrying about the personalities,” he said.
However, he backed former prime minister Kevin Rudd in the party’s leadership ballot in February.
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