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In what I consider a truly odd move, the Times did a sub-editorial on Bercow continuing as Speaker: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7112263.ece My comment on this was simply as follows below:

I must disagree with this article, not because “…his oratory can occasionally mutate into pomposity…” But simply because he is not up to the Job and even if re-elected, should be voted out of Office by the new Parliament.

Especially in these times, the House needs a Speaker that reaches out to the public over and above the heads of the Members, honourable or not. In short we need a Lord Tonipandy or a Betty Boothroyd not this dullard and introverted member of a ‘club’. The historical role of the Speaker has changed radically since the Civil War, today the Speaker should in a sense, represent us as in “I will keep YOUR Parliament honest”.

Bercow is not up to this task and has had sufficient time to have made an impact but, failed to do so. If he was a plant one might say, “It hasn’t taken and established itself, best pull it up and shove it in the compost !”