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09 Sep 19
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At next election or on 31st Oct , whichever is sooner !
Guardian :
John Bercow says he will stand down as Speaker by end of October
John Bercow, the Speaker, says he wants to make a personal statement.
At the 2017 election he promised his wife and children that it would be his last, he says.
He says if the Commons votes for an early general election, his tenure as Speaker and as an MP will end when this parliament ends.
He says, if MPs do not vote for an election, he has concluded the least disruptiveoption will be to stand down at close of play on Thursday 31 October.
He says the votes on the Queen’s speech will come at the start of that week. He says it would make sense to have an experienced Speaker in the chair for those votes.
And he says this would be the most democratic option because it would allow the new Speaker to be elected by MPs who know the candidates.
John Bercow says he will stand down as Speaker by end of October
John Bercow, the Speaker, says he wants to make a personal statement.
At the 2017 election he promised his wife and children that it would be his last, he says.
He says if the Commons votes for an early general election, his tenure as Speaker and as an MP will end when this parliament ends.
He says, if MPs do not vote for an election, he has concluded the least disruptiveoption will be to stand down at close of play on Thursday 31 October.
He says the votes on the Queen’s speech will come at the start of that week. He says it would make sense to have an experienced Speaker in the chair for those votes.
And he says this would be the most democratic option because it would allow the new Speaker to be elected by MPs who know the candidates.
Whatever you make think of him, it is a very important and difficult role.
Yes...
3m ago 15:46
Bercow says he could not have served without the support of the Commons.
He says it is filled by people motivated by their sense of public duty, and by people who see themselves not as delegates but as representatives - there to do what is best for the public.
He says he has been an MP for 22 years, and Speaker for 10 years. It has been the greatest honour of his life, he says.
He wishes his successor all the best in terms of standing up for the rights of MPs individually, and for parliament institutionally.
Bercow has finished. He receives a round of applause, although with most of the clapping coming from the opposition benches.
5m ago 15:43
Bercow says he has always sought to be the champion of backbenchers.
If you like, he has been their backstop, he says.
He thanks House of Commons staff.
And he thanks his wife and his three children. He sounds very emotional at this point.
3m ago 15:46
Bercow says he could not have served without the support of the Commons.
He says it is filled by people motivated by their sense of public duty, and by people who see themselves not as delegates but as representatives - there to do what is best for the public.
He says he has been an MP for 22 years, and Speaker for 10 years. It has been the greatest honour of his life, he says.
He wishes his successor all the best in terms of standing up for the rights of MPs individually, and for parliament institutionally.
Bercow has finished. He receives a round of applause, although with most of the clapping coming from the opposition benches.
5m ago 15:43
Bercow says he has always sought to be the champion of backbenchers.
If you like, he has been their backstop, he says.
He thanks House of Commons staff.
And he thanks his wife and his three children. He sounds very emotional at this point.
Jeremy Corbyn rises on a point of order and uses it to thank John Bercow for his work as Speaker.
He says Bercow has “totally changed the way in which the job has been done”. He has gone out to the country and spoken at schools and factories. He says he will always remember Bercow speaking to students with learning disabilities at an event in Corbyn’s constituency. He says he has made the role of Speaker more powerful.
Corbyn says, as someone who aspires to hold executive office, he approves of a powerful parliament holding the executive to account. He says he has tried to do that himself during his career.
He says Bercow has “totally changed the way in which the job has been done”. He has gone out to the country and spoken at schools and factories. He says he will always remember Bercow speaking to students with learning disabilities at an event in Corbyn’s constituency. He says he has made the role of Speaker more powerful.
Corbyn says, as someone who aspires to hold executive office, he approves of a powerful parliament holding the executive to account. He says he has tried to do that himself during his career.
1m ago 15:53
Bercow says Gove never complained about urgent questions being granted at short notice, because he was always quick enough and bright enough to respond.
He suggests that praising Gove may not do him credit on the Tory benches.
(Many Tory MPs loath Bercow, and will be glad to see him gone.)
3m ago 15:51
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, is speaking now. He says for the first time he would like to associate himself with what Jeremy Corbyn said. He says Bercow was a tenacious backbencher, and frontbencher too.
He says he has no wish to prematurely truncate Bercow’ role in the chair.
He says he has always appreciated the way Bercow has tried to ensure the executive has been held to account. He says Bercow has acted in the best tradition of Speakers.
He says Bercow has tried to make the executive answerable to the Commons, just as the house is answerable to the people.
He ends by saying he and Bercow have children at the same school.
Bercow says Gove never complained about urgent questions being granted at short notice, because he was always quick enough and bright enough to respond.
He suggests that praising Gove may not do him credit on the Tory benches.
(Many Tory MPs loath Bercow, and will be glad to see him gone.)
3m ago 15:51
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, is speaking now. He says for the first time he would like to associate himself with what Jeremy Corbyn said. He says Bercow was a tenacious backbencher, and frontbencher too.
He says he has no wish to prematurely truncate Bercow’ role in the chair.
He says he has always appreciated the way Bercow has tried to ensure the executive has been held to account. He says Bercow has acted in the best tradition of Speakers.
He says Bercow has tried to make the executive answerable to the Commons, just as the house is answerable to the people.
He ends by saying he and Bercow have children at the same school.
Such a loss to the house, neutral and unbiased and did his job so well, very good with the women mp's aswell, fantastic that Corbyn thinks so high of him, fantastic people the both of them.
Now he will make millions out of a book and become a Lord, so worthy of this aswell.
1m ago 15:56
David Lidington, the former Cabinet Office minister, represents the constituency next door to Bercow’s in Buckinghamshire. He says John Bercow never allowed his duties as Speaker to detract from his need to represent his constituents.
3m ago 15:54
Hilary Benn, the chair of the Commons Brexit committee, whose bill designed to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 31 October was passed as a result of a procedural ruling allowed by Bercow, praises Bercow as a reforming Speaker who has empowered parliament.
David Lidington, the former Cabinet Office minister, represents the constituency next door to Bercow’s in Buckinghamshire. He says John Bercow never allowed his duties as Speaker to detract from his need to represent his constituents.
3m ago 15:54
Hilary Benn, the chair of the Commons Brexit committee, whose bill designed to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 31 October was passed as a result of a procedural ruling allowed by Bercow, praises Bercow as a reforming Speaker who has empowered parliament.
Full text of John Bercow's resignation statement
Matthew Weaver (Guardian :
Colleagues, I would like to make a personal statement to the House. At the 2017 election I promised my wife and children that it would be my last. This is a pledge that I intend to keep. If the house votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as Speaker and MP will end when this parliament ends.
If the house does not so vote, I have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic course of action would be for me stand down at the close of business on Thursday, October the 31st. Least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the Queen’s speech expected on 21st and 22nd October.
The week also after that may be quite lively and it would be best to have an experienced figure in the chair for that short period.
Most democratic because it will mean that a ballot is held when all members have some knowledge of the candidates. This is far preferable to a contest at the beginning of a parliament when new MPs will not be similarly informed and may find themselves vulnerable to undo institutional influence.
We would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we? Throughout my time as Speaker I have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which I will make absolutely no apology to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
To deploy a perhaps dangerous phrase, I have also sought to be the backbencher’s backstop.
I could not do so without the support of a small but superb team in Speakers house, the wider House staff, my Buckingham constituents, and above all my wife Sally, and our three children, Oliver, Freddy and Jemima. From the bottom of my heart, I thank them all profusely.
I could also not have served without the repeated support of this House and its members past and present. This is a wonderful place filled overwhelmingly by people who are motivated by their notion of the national interest by their perception of the public good. And by their duty, not as delegates, but as representatives, to do what they believe is right for our country.
We degrade this parliament at our peril. I have served as a member of parliament for 22 years, and for the last 10 as Speaker. This has been, let me put it explicitly, the greatest privilege and honour of my professional life for which I will be eternally grateful.
I wish my successor in the chair the very best fortune in standing up for the rights of honourable and right honourable members individually and for parliament institutionally as the Speaker of the House of Commons.
Matthew Weaver (Guardian :
Colleagues, I would like to make a personal statement to the House. At the 2017 election I promised my wife and children that it would be my last. This is a pledge that I intend to keep. If the house votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as Speaker and MP will end when this parliament ends.
If the house does not so vote, I have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic course of action would be for me stand down at the close of business on Thursday, October the 31st. Least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the Queen’s speech expected on 21st and 22nd October.
The week also after that may be quite lively and it would be best to have an experienced figure in the chair for that short period.
Most democratic because it will mean that a ballot is held when all members have some knowledge of the candidates. This is far preferable to a contest at the beginning of a parliament when new MPs will not be similarly informed and may find themselves vulnerable to undo institutional influence.
We would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we? Throughout my time as Speaker I have sought to increase the relative authority of this legislature for which I will make absolutely no apology to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
To deploy a perhaps dangerous phrase, I have also sought to be the backbencher’s backstop.
I could not do so without the support of a small but superb team in Speakers house, the wider House staff, my Buckingham constituents, and above all my wife Sally, and our three children, Oliver, Freddy and Jemima. From the bottom of my heart, I thank them all profusely.
I could also not have served without the repeated support of this House and its members past and present. This is a wonderful place filled overwhelmingly by people who are motivated by their notion of the national interest by their perception of the public good. And by their duty, not as delegates, but as representatives, to do what they believe is right for our country.
We degrade this parliament at our peril. I have served as a member of parliament for 22 years, and for the last 10 as Speaker. This has been, let me put it explicitly, the greatest privilege and honour of my professional life for which I will be eternally grateful.
I wish my successor in the chair the very best fortune in standing up for the rights of honourable and right honourable members individually and for parliament institutionally as the Speaker of the House of Commons.
"In July 2015, Bercow was again criticised for the amount of his expenses, including a claim of £172 for a 0.7 mile chauffeur-driven journey. Andy Silvester, campaign director at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "This is an obscene waste of money and shows appalling judgment from whoever made the arrangements."
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So they complain that Parliament is being shut down and then spend hours kissing Bercow's ar*e in speech after speech.
British English: impartial /ɪmˈpɑːʃəl/ adjective
If you are impartial, you are able to act fairly because you are not personally involved in a situation.
If you are impartial, you are able to act fairly because you are not personally involved in a situation.
GOOD RIDDANCE , he can put his name down for the next presenter of Tenable .
He'll be given a seat in the house of lords, which should be dismantled
not sure about that. he's hated with a passion by the tories and it's in their gift at the moment
The Speaker also escaped rebuke, from Labour and, alas, most Tory MPs alike, over his keen appetite for freebies, which have been estimated to amount to more than £70,000 since he became Speaker of the Commons in 2009.
While earning £153,145 a year and enjoying a lavish grace-and-favour home on whose refurbishment at least £20,000 has been spent, Mr Bercow received considerable gifts, mostly in respect of sports tickets for football and tennis matches. In one year alone, these amounted to nearly £19,000.
When the Tory party (of which he is, unbelievably, a representative) said it would put up a candidate against him in his constituency at the forthcoming election, he knew the game was up.
Good riddance, many of us will cry. We can only pray that Mr Bercow’s successor, Labour or Tory, will recognise that the Speaker of the Commons should be firm not rude, neutral not partisan, and consensual rather than divisive.
more......
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7445465/STEPHEN-GLOVER-John-Bercow-one-worst-Speakers-history.html
While earning £153,145 a year and enjoying a lavish grace-and-favour home on whose refurbishment at least £20,000 has been spent, Mr Bercow received considerable gifts, mostly in respect of sports tickets for football and tennis matches. In one year alone, these amounted to nearly £19,000.
When the Tory party (of which he is, unbelievably, a representative) said it would put up a candidate against him in his constituency at the forthcoming election, he knew the game was up.
Good riddance, many of us will cry. We can only pray that Mr Bercow’s successor, Labour or Tory, will recognise that the Speaker of the Commons should be firm not rude, neutral not partisan, and consensual rather than divisive.
more......
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7445465/STEPHEN-GLOVER-John-Bercow-one-worst-Speakers-history.html
Well that was a complete waste of time. Another night in British politics and back where we started! Ivan Lewis' speech was good though.
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