Bercow being ousted

Or all the general populace!

lemon I didn't make a reference to 'all the Conservative MPs'. What makes you think the general populace don't like him? everybody I've spoken to recentl;y think he's been doing a great job keeping order, and have found it also to be entertaining.

Just two hours after you started the thread I posted "Yet another misleading title.". Perhaps rather than life overtaking you UG, you were just trying to be too clever?

A lot of the praise for Bercow came from the heart and I found it quite moving, especially one that said how good he was to backbenchers.

humptydumpty I'm glad to hear that folk you've spoken to recently are all pro-Bercow.

I did meet a couple recently who didn't like him but, surprise, surprise, they turned out to be Telegraph readers!

Marcus Chown
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When this is over and those who shafted us - Farage, Johnson, Cameron, Rees-Mogg, Davis, Gove, May & Co - are exposed for the criminal damage they have done to our country, remember one person did the right thing: John Bercow. He defended our Parliamentary democracy.

Bercow milked his audience and definitely played to the gallery - simpering ‘oh no, please, enough’ to the adoring Labour, Lib Dem and SNP backbenchers (well, everyone who wasn’t a Tory I suppose!) who were clapping (!) and cheering for him in the HoC.

At the end of Mr Bercow’s three-act opera, the fact that Labour MPs stood up and clapped and Tories did not portrayed an image that encapsulated the Speakership’s loss of cross-party respect.

Whether Mr Bercow has been quantifiably partisan or not is by the by; he is perceived as such and this has eroded the authority of his office.

I’m glad he’s leaving.

Harriet Harman is a strong woman and I hope she’s the Speaker come November.

At the beginning of his political career Bercow was not just a Tory, he was an extreme right winger,

As he became older and wiser he took up a more moderate position which is why the ERGs see him as having abandoned their cult.

Urmstongran if you are going to quote from the right-wing press please acknowledge that quote rather than trying to pass it off as your own.

Today 07:14 Urmstongran

You really do reflect the party you applauded UG. I has long been the case that if you are going to plagerise others writings, particularly direct quotes, you make it clear it is a quote and say where it cane from. It is not clever to pass off the writings of a Daily Telegraph columnist as your own*, it is as underhand as Johnson trying to usurp the sovereignty of parliament by closing it down.

Is this what the Conservative Party has done to this country that it's acolytes believe that any underhand more is allowable in the path to dictatorship?

*https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/10/farewell-john-bercow-partisan-wrecker-tradition/