Who is running this country?

Kept trying to think who Cummings reminds me of...
Yup, Alastair Campbell. The behind the throne powers these 'advisers' wield is mind-boggling (and yes I have been at Campbell's briefings so am familiar with the tactics). I imagine Cummings' briefings are much the same....

At the end of this mess maybe a statue in parliament Square of Bercow could be organised. Mind you it'll only be a small one

But as a true anarchist, maybe his will be less organised purplepatch

absthame

Ginny 42 r u for real bercow is one dangerous man he makes the rules up as he goes along this man shld b neural and have no opinion but just do his job and keep the house in order thank God he is gone soon and I guess with a big fat purse disgraceful excuse for a man!

I thought it was the Romans.

Boris at PMQs

Oh yes, and this is a good one from Patrick Stewart as well:

Patrick Stewart and the EHCR

Selsey99 perhaps you can inform us about the rules by which the Speaker makes Parliament follow due process and then tell us in detail which rules he's breaking. Facts not hyperbole please.

Oh yes, please do, Selsey99.

railman

Excellent!!

maddyone Yes, it's very possible that the Russians are directing what Boris is doing just as they are directing what Trump is doing in the USA (through the billions of $$ he borrowed from Russian banks when US banks refused to bail him out of impending bankrupcy yet again). Boris is a weak man with no morals that I've ever seen a trace of - could be bribery; could be blackmail; or simply the manipulation of his fragile toddler ego ("So you've always wanted to be Prime Minister? Then, just do as I say ... ")

whoever is Pm will not be able to have any deal to enable us to leave the EU because the remainers will ensure we do not, so what the Pm says or does will be instantly rejected . When the Pm said i have a new deal that Eu has accepted before it had been shown or discussed the remainers said we will not accept it!!!.

I thought Bercow was following the rules, even if some of them are rather ancient.

I have visions of him poring through ancient books and scrolls every night, with Sally complaining that his dinner's getting cold and she feels neglected.

Oh dear Carly, swallowed it hook, line and sinker haven’t you?

I can see them but can't hear them, railman

perhaps just as well.

I’ve never heard such complete and utter twaddle.

That was to Carly.

I thought it was to my post of 17:57:20 maddyone which I thought was a fair enough response

Alistair Campbell & Dominic Cummings. Peas in the same pod. The power behind ‘the throne’?

Alistair Campbell didn't have the contempt for Parliament that Cummings has.

Nor did he have the Russian connection

Thank God (if she exists) for Bercow.

Now that he's no longer the power behind the throne Alistair Campbell comes over as a sensible man and no longer a bully.

Thank God (if she exists). Love that after all this time the ‘right on’ saying is still around with the feministas Dinahmo - such a 70’s cliche!

selsey that, I'm sad to say, was a whole lot of unfounded and unjustified gibberish!

You are quite wrong about Bercow Selsey99 and unnecessarily rude to me. He has a very wide knowledge of procedure in the HoC, but the clerks who occupy the seats directly in front of him are there to advise the speaker on procedural matters and you often see him conferring with them. They're hardly likely to all four get things wrong are they? When he is keeping the house in order he is doing his job. I can't think of another person who could have kept the House in order so successfully in the past 3 years.

The reason some MPs get so cross with him is precisely because he's sticking to the rules.