Bercow resigning as Speaker

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BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

As neither.

[Nickgnome]

This period in our political history will be an interesting read.

It is unlikely that many if any posters here will be alive when sufficient time has passed for an unbiased account to be written.

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BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

Well, not as Lord Bercow, by all accounts, if the Tories get back in. And I doubt he'll have a portrait hung in his honour in the Carlton Club either.

And I gather that, most hurtfully to him, he has been blackballed by the All England Tennis Club. Oh dear, never mind, as Windsor Davies used to say.

[Zirconia]

Did an MP just try to sort him out with a threat?

[Blackpuddin]

Supercilious windbag.

[Tankrizzo]

What happened to banjowilly? He seemed to just disappear.

[ClaphamGT3]

BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

It's funny, isn't it? Those with long enough memories will remember Eurosceptics in the early 90s moaning about Betty Boothroyd being biased because she wouldn't let them abuse process to get their way either.

What's the common denominator? Oh yes, it's nasty, small-minded little gobstes like John Redwood and Bill Cash and their even less admirable band of acolytes

[Camoradi]

vaud said:

I know a "Randy Bender" in the US. And a "Gabe Asher" (read it out loud).
And a "Richard Head" in the UK.

Just spotted this. Randy Bender the dental surgeon who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado? If so, I met him back in 1990 when staying with one of his neighbours

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ClaphamGT3 said:

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

It's funny, isn't it? Those with long enough memories will remember Eurosceptics in the early 90s moaning about Betty Boothroyd being biased because she wouldn't let them abuse process to get their way either.

What's the common denominator? Oh yes, it's nasty, small-minded little gobstes like John Redwood and Bill Cash and their even less admirable band of acolytes

Oh yes, so much nastier and small-minded than the man who wanted to hang Neslon Mandela and repatriate people of different skin colour to his...

[whoami]

ClaphamGT3 said:

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

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whoami said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

I can’t see even Bercow himself believing that.

[isaldiri]

ClaphamGT3 said:

BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

I'm sure Keith Vaz and other 'principled' expense claiming MPs would agree with you. Probably not many others outside parliament one suspects...

[Nickgnome]

When Bercow gets elevated to the Lords, I will enjoy immensely the vexation caused here.

[Blackpuddin]

REALIST123 said:

whoami said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

As one of the most principled holders of his office.

I can’t see even Bercow himself believing that.

Oh I don't know, he's arrogant enough. Can't be doing with anyone who uses a thousand words when five would do and he is the worst exponent of that. Always reminds me of Leonard Sachs whose trademark when MC-ing The Good Old Days on BBC was to use ridiculously long words for comic effect.

[loafer123]

Nickgnome said:

When Bercow gets elevated to the Lords, I will enjoy immensely the vexation caused here.

I don't have think we will notice... We will be too busy talking about hell freezing over...

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Nickgnome said:

When Bercow gets elevated to the Lords, I will enjoy immensely the vexation caused here.

Who's going to elevate him? The Tories won't.

[Etypephil]

BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

As the man who brought the position of speaker into disrepute.

[Escort3500]

Etypephil said:

BlackLabel said:

How will history remember The Right Honourable John Bercow MP?

As the man who brought the position of speaker into disrepute.

I think Michael Martin managed this first.

[vaud]

Camoradi said:

Just spotted this. Randy Bender the dental surgeon who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado? If so, I met him back in 1990 when staying with one of his neighbours

Nope.

[NoNeed]

I do hope Boris follows Bercows lead in breaking conventions and withholds his peerage, Now I would drink to that.