The office of Speaker of the House of Commons constitutes an important part of how Britons are governed. The Speaker maintains order in the House, manages debates, represents the Commons in meetings with the Monarch, administers discipline in the House and has to do all these and other jobs whilst being seen by all parties to be scrupulously impartial. A Speaker who speaks partially on issues is I’m afraid, not a Speaker worthy of the name, in the British system.
There have been both good and bad Speakers since the officer of Speaker of the House of Commons was first created in roughly its present form in the fourteenth century. In my lifetime there have been some brilliant Speakers who have held the confidence of ALL the Commons such as George Thomas and Betty Boothroyd and others such as Michael Martin who were a bit ‘so so’ but I don’t recall a Speaker who has been as controversial and contentious as John Bercow.
During his time as Speaker John Bercow allowed those who wanted to override the 2016 vote to leave the European Union a lot of leeway. That he did so when it was Parliament itself that had decided that the festering political boil that was Britain’s membership of the EU be settled by a Referendum, struck many of us as being both partisan and not in keeping with the job of Speaker of the House of Commons. Those of us who watched the Parliamentary shenanigans of the Remain contingent in the Commons and how they were seemingly assisted by Bercow’s interventions, will never forget how Bercow did a great deal to discredit the Commons in the eyes of the public.
Speakers of the House of Commons are, although elected as MP’s for a party, expected to give up their party loyalties when taking up the post and not to be seen as supporting any party political faction in the Commons. John Bercow did not live up to this standard.
John Bercow, although initially elected by the voters to be the Tory MP for Buckingham, whilst Speaker consistently seemed to side with the Remain faction of the Commons, a faction that was mostly centred around the Labour Party. Therefore it is not at all surprising to read that Bercow has gone and joined the Labour Party now that he is free of needing to show any pretence that he is impartial.
Sky News said:
Former Conservative MP and Commons Speaker John Bercow says he has switched allegiances to join the Labour Party.
Mr Bercow said he regards the Tories under Boris Johnson as “reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic”.
“I am motivated by support for equality, social justice and internationalism. That is the Labour brand,” he told The Observer.
In other words he’s joined the same party that he pandered to during the Brexit debates. He’s chosen the party that is hostile to Britain, Britons and British values and which sucks up to unelected behemoths like the EU and equally unelected non Governmental organisations.
Labour are welcome to him. John Bercow is a failed Speaker who is joining a party that is failing. To be quite frank they are made for each other.
Although Labour are welcome to the odious little toad, I find it worrying that a person of Jewish heritage should even consider joining any party that is so riddled with open Jew hatred and a love of genocidal “palestine” as the party that Labour has transformed into. That he should avert his eyes and ignore the shameless Islamopandering, the vile fascistic Momentum Brownshirts, the rabble rousing Corbyn, the contemptuous of England London metropolitan elite, speaks volumes for the man. They’re welcome to him, my concern is the viciousness of his rhetoric aimed at the gullible and hang the fallout. The one ray of hope is that the emperor of smug and smarm with his sneering self-importance will turn off more than it attracts.
Spot on there. Although I doubt that Bercow practises Judaism in any way shape or form, he should be aware of the Jew hatred that is now embedded deeply in Labour. We know the Left per se has Jew hatred at its root, we only need to read Marx’s comments to see that. Because the Labour Party was originally based on Methodist and non conformist social action and justice principles rather than Marxism, Marxian Jew hatred was never that influential in the Labour party of the past, unlike say the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Sure there were Jew haters who were members of the Labour Part, but they were individuals and not many of them, they were not part of any organised or powerful clique or faction within the Labour Party. The situation is now very much different. The Labour Party, partly because of the rise in influence of Marxists and partly because the party has become a party of Islamopanderers, is now your first port of call should you wish to find a large organised group of Jew haters. I find it incredibly sad that it used to be the case that if you wanted to find Jew hating Jackboot lickers then you had to look at the fringes of politics at the ultra Left or the ultra rightists like the National Front. Now it seems that to find dyed in the wool Jew haters all you need to do is look at the Labour Party.
It does indeed look like a thing of shame for someone like Bercow to embrace the party that has as its core vote, those who want to exterminate Jews at worst or at best make Jews into second or third class citizens again.
I thought “Gorbals Mick” was a terrible occupant of the Speaker’s chair but Labour managed to find somebody even worse. As “Squeaker” Bercow has showered dishonour upon the position and the fact that he has been ignored for a Peerage is a fitting verdict on his mishandling of such a vitally important position in Parliament.
Agree about Michael ‘Gorbals Mick’ Martin. He was pretty so so in my opinion and definitely not up to the standard of his predecessors. He was tainted by the Parliamentary expenses affair and did disgrace the office of Speaker. However, Bercow is far far worse. What he did was not merely show a little partiality, he acted against the wishes of the British people as expressed in the Referendum. To me Bercow was the intra-Parliamentary equivalent of the extra-Parliamentary nutter that is Steve Bray.
A wee nyaff. The sufferer of small man syndrome. A pompous, snobbish, aggressive, hypocritical, spendthrift, bullying dwarf.
But enough of his good points.
One is almost sorry for his poor wife. Almost.
Nice one! When you read around you get the impression that it is Sally Bercow who has been one of the main driving forces of John Bercow’s shift to the Left.