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Post by beth on Sept 9, 2019 12:38:25 GMT -5
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow to stand down John Bercow has announced that he will stand down as Speaker of the UK's House of Commons by October 31 -- the day Britain is set to leave the European Union -- after a decade in the position. Bercow, whose cries of, "Order, Order!" have gone viral amid months of Brexit chaos, has at times been a divisive figure in the Speaker's chair. His proponents have hailed him as an unparalleled ally to backbench MPs, while his detractors have criticized him for his interventions in the Brexit debate. Bercow -- a larger-than-life character in British politics -- told Parliament on Monday that he would quit his job by October 31, but said he would stand down sooner if MPs vote for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's snap general election. more www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/europe/john-bercow-resigns-gbr-intl/index.html?no-st=1568049727
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Post by mouse on Sept 10, 2019 3:32:06 GMT -5
I beg to differ on the term larger than life.... Bercow was alternative
ly named the poisen dwarf... and he and his wife have played his position for every penny they could screw... originally a conservative berkcow crossed over to labour and had during Brexit been any thing but impartial[as the speakers job requires]the brown nosing that went on yesterday was vomit induseing….
to no ore seeing his nast sneering face will be very welcpm in the future[and of course there is a deputy speaker.....the big news is one of those promoting them selves for the position of speaker... is hofrrible harriet….but after having had at least two if not three labour speakers... its time for a conservative one
Harriet Harmen is about as trust worthy as a box of vipers...and has nothing to recommend hedr to the post......
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Post by fretslider on Sept 10, 2019 6:18:15 GMT -5
I beg to differ on the term larger than life.... Bercow was alternative ly named the poisen dwarf... and he and his wife have played his position for every penny they could screw... originally a conservative berkcow crossed over to labour and had during Brexit been any thing but impartial[as the speakers job requires]the brown nosing that went on yesterday was vomit induseing…. to no ore seeing his nast sneering face will be very welcpm in the future[and of course there is a deputy speaker.....the big news is one of those promoting them selves for the position of speaker... is hofrrible harriet….but after having had at least two if not three labour speakers... its time for a conservative one Harriet Harmen is about as trust worthy as a box of vipers...and has nothing to recommend hedr to the post...... Harperson was the paedophile's friend for a time when she was a lawyer working for the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty. She, husband Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt all attempted to get the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) legitimate status. Harman, along with her husband Jack Dromey – now a frontbench Labour MP - and Patricia Hewitt, a former Labour Cabinet minister under Tony Blair, all worked for the council in the 1970s.
In 1975, the campign group – which lives on today as human rights watchdog Liberty – controversially granted official “affiliate” status to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a body which lobbied openly for child sex.
Tom O’Carroll, PIE’s founder and described as a “sexually predatory” paedophile, was put one of the Council’s working groups, and in spring 1977 he was allowed to make a speech at the Council’s spring conference.
During this period, the Council stepped in to defend paedophiles against “hysterical and inaccurate” newspaper attacks.
One leaflet sent by PIE to MPs claimed: “Paedophiles are ordinary, decent, sensible human beings, no more sexually depraved than yourself, and with a capacity for loving and helping children which is at present being repressed.”
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Harman - the Council’s legal officer in 1978 until 1982 - wrote a briefing paper on the Protection of Children Bill, which sought to ban child pornography
Miss Harman had claimed such a law would “increase censorship” and argued that a pornographic picture of a naked child should not be considered indecent unless it could be proven that the subject had suffered.www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10659100/Harriet-Harman-Jack-Dromey-Patricia-Hewitt-and-the-Paedophile-Information-Exchange.htmlHarman will be the Bercow continuity candidate: The race to be the next speaker is formally on, with a number of candidates now openly campaigning. In truth many candidates have been quietly on the campaign trail for well over a year. Harriet Harman has the most sophisticated operation and the most support from the Labour benches. Another serious contender at this stage is Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle. Harman took to the airwaves on The Today Programme this morning to declare that she agreed with Bercow’s flagrant disregard for precedent…order-order.com/2019/09/10/harman-pitches-continuity-bercow/Guido brings you the runners and riders to be the next speaker in full here…
Harriet Harman (Lab) The (self-described) ‘Mother of the House’. Pitching herself as ‘continuity Bercow.’ That will go down well with Remainers but is unlikely to pick up much Tory support…
Lindsay Hoyle (Lab) Deputy Speaker. Good sense of humour with a decidedly smaller head than his would-be predecessor. Seen as less activist with a broader appeal across the House. But will this Remainer Parliament want someone less keen on breaking the rules for their own cause?
Chris Bryant (Lab) Loves Parliamentary procedure so much he wrote a book on it. An also-ran.
Charles Walker (Con) A close friend of Bercow and loyal Theresa May fan. May want to add ‘speaker’ to his title along with his KBE this morning.
Eleanor Laing (Con) Tory MP who took over from Nigel Evans as Deputy Speaker, promising she would give him back the post. Never did. Seen as far more cooperative in the eyes of Brexiteers…
Rosie Winterton (Lab) Another Deputy Speaker and former Labour Chief Whip under Miliband.
Meg Hillier (Lab) Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. She’ll be used to having to give up her party ties after temporarily defecting to the Lib Dems in 2005 over Iraq.
Sir Edward Leigh (Con) Certainly the Tory Brexiteer’s favourite… so a no-hoper if Bercow insists on this cohort of MPs voting in the next speaker.
Pete Wishart (SNP) Clearly doesn’t think Scottish independence is likely any time soon…
Expect backroom dealings and grovelling campaigning over the next two months…None of the above. |
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