Bercow resigning as Speaker
Discussion
REALIST123 said:
Zirconia said:
Sheepshanks said:
turbobloke said:
Zirconia said:
I hope he makes the upper house.
There must be an attic somewhere with enough room for his personality.What was going on with MPs making obsequious speeches to him - I thought he was universally disliked?
The HOL cost the taxpayer over £70M a year just in direct payments to the peers. About £90k each. Many of them draw tens of thousands and don't even attend.
The Kinnocks being allowed to sponge off the nation was bad enough. Allowing Bercow to join the gravy train cannot be justified Just because that bunch of parasites got away with it or because you want to wind someone up.
I’d like to see all payments from the taxpayer to peers stopped and make them crowdfund. They’d then learn what their true value is.
Amateurish said:
Maybe now is the time for a speaker who isn't a serving MP so that their poor constituency doesn't get disenfranchised for a decade.
No rule preventing anyone standing against them is there, just a tradition, Farage tried once? The TV show is saying that they still work in the constituency? I know not.essayer said:
The end
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed the Rt Hon John Simon Bercow to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/manor-of-norths...
Maybe he could follow the lead of a former holder of the post and become a Master in Lunacy...Oh wait...."The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed the Rt Hon John Simon Bercow to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/manor-of-norths...
Zirconia said:
Amateurish said:
Maybe now is the time for a speaker who isn't a serving MP so that their poor constituency doesn't get disenfranchised for a decade.
No rule preventing anyone standing against them is there, just a tradition, Farage tried once? The TV show is saying that they still work in the constituency? I know not.kev1974 said:
Zirconia said:
Amateurish said:
Maybe now is the time for a speaker who isn't a serving MP so that their poor constituency doesn't get disenfranchised for a decade.
No rule preventing anyone standing against them is there, just a tradition, Farage tried once? The TV show is saying that they still work in the constituency? I know not.Interesting listening to the lady form the House of Lords.
essayer said:
The end
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed the Rt Hon John Simon Bercow to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/manor-of-norths...
A technical appointment that allows an MP to resign. MP's are not legally allowed to resign, so they are appointed to a non position."The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed the Rt Hon John Simon Bercow to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/manor-of-norths...
This process must have taken hours (days?) in the days before they could run off 600 "ballot papers" on the nearest decent sized printer or photocopier in minutes
Don't really understand why the low scoring candidates haven't saved everyone's time and just withdrawn, can't really see Harriet Harman improving that much on her 72? There's no more speeches so surely not many people switch from who they've already voted for except when that person is already out?
Don't really understand why the low scoring candidates haven't saved everyone's time and just withdrawn, can't really see Harriet Harman improving that much on her 72? There's no more speeches so surely not many people switch from who they've already voted for except when that person is already out?
kev1974 said:
This process must have taken hours (days?) in the days before they could run off 600 "ballot papers" on the nearest decent sized printer or photocopier in minutes
Don't really understand why the low scoring candidates haven't saved everyone's time and just withdrawn, can't really see Harriet Harman improving that much on her 72? There's no more speeches so surely not many people switch from who they've already voted for except when that person is already out?
Mr Gestetner had the market there since the late 1880's.Don't really understand why the low scoring candidates haven't saved everyone's time and just withdrawn, can't really see Harriet Harman improving that much on her 72? There's no more speeches so surely not many people switch from who they've already voted for except when that person is already out?
Another day of Parliamentary panto electing a new speaker. Waiting for ballot papers to be printed, for goodness sake! The whole process desperately needs to be dragged into the modern world.
If this continues, I fear fewer people will understand why, in the 21st Century, we still continue with outdated practices with all the ceremony and paraphernalia that continues in both Houses.
Ridiculous!
If this continues, I fear fewer people will understand why, in the 21st Century, we still continue with outdated practices with all the ceremony and paraphernalia that continues in both Houses.
Ridiculous!
pequod said:
Another day of Parliamentary panto electing a new speaker. Waiting for ballot papers to be printed, for goodness sake! The whole process desperately needs to be dragged into the modern world.
If this continues, I fear fewer people will understand why, in the 21st Century, we still continue with outdated practices with all the ceremony and paraphernalia that continues in both Houses.
Ridiculous!
I agree. I think we need to modernize process while keeping some of the spectacle.If this continues, I fear fewer people will understand why, in the 21st Century, we still continue with outdated practices with all the ceremony and paraphernalia that continues in both Houses.
Ridiculous!
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