Bercow disgraceful divulgence!!!

Anyone who wants to know could easily find out which school his children go to. It’s in the public domain.

sorry I meant absthame

absamathe Berco best speaker in 60 years!!!!!! I think Betty Boothroyd holds that distinction.

Bercow is an excellent speaker and Sarah Vine is just another annoying Tory wife.

Well, Bercow has rather taken the lead in having an annoying and embarrassing wife hasn't he.

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I think he is brilliant. Excellent at keeping the puerile and arrogant behaviour in order.
Whitewave but he proved himself no different to the rest of them on this occasion.

In fact worse, bringing someone's children and where they go to school into it.
Attack Gove if he wished to but that was unacceptable.

The measure of any ‘man’ is how he treats the little people, those who work for him. His track record isn’t good.

Whether the name of the school was known before Bercow said it again today is irrelevant. Bercow has demonstrated indiscretion; not a trait becoming of SOTH. But, having said that, he's a man known for bullying and overbearing behaviour so not entirely unexpected.

I too find much to dislike about Bercow's personality, but would agree he is an excellent speaker who knows the rules of parliament inside out and is determined that MPs will abide by them. Jumped up bullies hold no sway with him.

I really do think most do not understand parliament and the behavior of parliamentarians.

Bercow is a little man who like so many of that stature over compensates in his behavior. It may well be that I don't like much of his personality however I am convinced that he is the best speaker that has been in the 60 years that I have taken an active interest in politics. He has done more than any other to defend parliament and it's members from an executive overreaching itself and also has been responsible for the substantial increase in the committee system and their powers.

Despite all of his shortcomings, parliament, our nation and our democracy owes Mr Speaker Bercow a great debt of gratitude.

The name of the school was hardly a secret if you read all the fuss made about it in several of the papers in 2014.
He wasn’t bringing the child into the discussion merely Gove’s behaviour.
I think anyone who can control the noisy, riotous crowd of MPs, of whatever hue, deserves some admiration.

I am pretty sure that the school wasn't mentioned ,so why all the fuss? If people know which school it is it's obviously from the earlier Telegraph article.Was there a fuss castigating the paper at that time ? It was all right for Sarah Vine to name the school in an article she wrote for the the Daily Mail in March 2014.

The most skin creeping toad if man. He thinks he’s so superior, quite the opposite in fact. It is s potential security risk to bring children’s schools and private lives into the house. He should be sacked, he knew what he was doing alright,

someone writes about it 5 years ago so it’s acceptable for the
Speaker to do so in Parliament?

I haven't listened to that latest offering from JB - is it The Grey Coat Hospital Comprehensive School? If so that's been public knowledge for yonks. Article from 2014 www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10682672/Michael-Gove-state-school-Why-I-bottled-it-and-sent-my-son-to-private-school.html

It’s the children I feel sorry for, whether they be Gove’s or Rees Mogg’s when this sort of stuff happens. You can be anti Tory without bringing them into the equation otherwise you weaken any argument you’re trying to make.

Whether Bercow named the school or even if it was already known, bringing the family of an MP into a parliamentary debate is out of order and once again shows his complete lack of judgement

I don’t read the Telegraph

Labaik.

No, IMO, Bercow definitely has the edge in the BAP little twit category, but we will have to agree to differ.

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Where Gove’s children (and Bercow’s, apparently) go to school is hardly a secret. It’s a first-rate state school, and I’d send children there if I could afford a house in the catchment area.

I find Bercow very entertaining, and far more articulate than the so-called Prime Minister.

Like mcem I heard Bercow say that he (Gove) wouldn't behave the same way at the school both their children went to. He did not name the school, but all their children's schools are a matter of public knowledge.

Telegraph. 30 August. Public knowledge.

It was wrong [imo]. However, at this time of national crisis it shouldn't divert attention away from the fact this country is in one hell of a mess [and Gove is one of the instigators of that mess, not Bercow...].

Seems Bercow is brilliant at defending the people so putting the safety of children at risk is ‘wonderful’

Bercow - odious little toad. The sooner he's out the better !

I admit I was half-listening at the time but only took in the fact that the children of both Gove and Bercow attend the same school.

Bercow hardly gave away a secret as the news that Beatrice had been awarded a place at Greycoats was all over the Telegraph on 30 August.

Pearl clutching quite unnecessary in this case methinks.

Keep up the good work Mr Speaker.
Someone has to exert some control in that embarassing bearpit.