Olde Hornet
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I will miss him!
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-drama-john-bercow-resignation/
MPs’ ‘bastion’ or ‘objectionable’ showoff. The larger-than-life Commons speaker divides opinion.
LONDON — It was when Emmanuel Macron asked Boris Johnson to pipe down at the G7 summit that it became apparent John Bercow has become an international celebrity.
"Order!" Macron said in a Gallic impersonation of the speaker of the House of Commons. "Order, Boris!"
Having enjoyed — for a speaker — hitherto unheard of levels of recognition thanks to his loud, long-winded, but occasionally game-changing chairing of the Commons' widely watched Brexit debates, Bercow announced on Monday he would be standing down on October 31.
To some MPs he is a hero of parliamentary democracy, to others a pompous self-promoter who has ridden roughshod over parliament's rules and allowed MPs to override the vote of the British people in the 2016 referendum.
But on his own terms, Bercow leaves on a high. As speaker — the (by convention) impartial chair of Commons proceedings — his personal mission since taking office in 2009 has been to put parliament at the center of British political decision-making after a period when, under Margaret Thatcher and then Tony Blair, it was often sidelined by powerful governments.
https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-drama-john-bercow-resignation/
MPs’ ‘bastion’ or ‘objectionable’ showoff. The larger-than-life Commons speaker divides opinion.
LONDON — It was when Emmanuel Macron asked Boris Johnson to pipe down at the G7 summit that it became apparent John Bercow has become an international celebrity.
"Order!" Macron said in a Gallic impersonation of the speaker of the House of Commons. "Order, Boris!"
Having enjoyed — for a speaker — hitherto unheard of levels of recognition thanks to his loud, long-winded, but occasionally game-changing chairing of the Commons' widely watched Brexit debates, Bercow announced on Monday he would be standing down on October 31.
To some MPs he is a hero of parliamentary democracy, to others a pompous self-promoter who has ridden roughshod over parliament's rules and allowed MPs to override the vote of the British people in the 2016 referendum.
But on his own terms, Bercow leaves on a high. As speaker — the (by convention) impartial chair of Commons proceedings — his personal mission since taking office in 2009 has been to put parliament at the center of British political decision-making after a period when, under Margaret Thatcher and then Tony Blair, it was often sidelined by powerful governments.