Speaker tossed aside

rmh

Making someone write an apology, makes you a tosser.....

Micahel Judd

Well ! He is certainly not laying down the "law" as Brown is still telling brownies and is still along with his ministers setting out Govt. policy and etc at the BBC rather than in Parliament.
The new Speaker has also not managed to control PMQs in any way. Brown still does not answer the questions.
It seems as though he is just enjoying the gravy train and all the perks. When will they ever learn..........

Proud Dundonian

It's not news that Bercow's a tosser, so the Sun is the perfect paper to carry the story.

George Butterworth

Whoever called Little Johnny Twitface a tosser was clearly exercising considerable restraint.

Vulture

John Bercow - in his new incarnation - is all for 'change' and junking tradition. Let's hope that Cameron, if elected, follows his example and scraps the tradition of re-electing the existing Speaker. 'Tosser' may not be an elegant epithet for this appalling little squirt, but it is entirely accurate.

Moraymint

Bercow strikes me as an ego-centric lightweight (rather like Blair, actually).

Incidentally, why start dropping yet more of the traditions of Parliament and the Speaker's Office/Role? No wonder our politics is in such a mess. Most politicians these days treat government and politics as if they were their own private train sets, to be played with like a trivial pursuit, changing things this way and that, to no clear or obvious purpose.

Eroding our national traditions lightly is a huge mistake; they are the joists on which our society has been built and stabilised over hundreds of years. Having politicians remove these joists to pander to a dumbed-down electorate, as if removing them makes politics and politicians appear "up to date" or "cool" or some other such modernising nonsense, further enhances the contempt in which many of us now hold our political elite (ha!).

It's getting hackneyed now, I know, but these guys are still just not getting it are they? They inhabit a different planet to the rest of us.

Liz Brown

I didn't think that he would be a fair and impartial Speaker in the first place and so far my fears have been justified - he is useless and seems to view being Speaker as a platform for the benefit of himself only

ken from glos

When will M.P,s stand up to this tosser.!

Austin Barry

Calling the Speaker a "tosser" is immature and inappropriate. A more apposite pejorative would be "self-regarding, midget twerp".

Susan Hill

He is a tosser

Chuck Unsworth

Apologise in writing? Good Grief!

Graceless behaviour from the Speaker. Any gentleman would have accepted a verbal apology and left it at that.

Bercow is clearly no gentleman. Is he extracting (or exacting) his pound of flesh, though? This is not about the dignity of office - it's about Bercow's sense of his own importance and value to society.

Flemingcrag

The only crime the MP who called Squeaker Bercow a tosser is guilty of, is that of gross understatement.
It took some time before it was generally accepted that Michael Martin was not up to the job, this arrogant pipsqeak has united almost everyone of this opinion on him within his first month in the job.
I hope someone does stand against him as in independent at the upcoming geeral election.

Major Plonquer

FYI: 'Speaker John Bercow' is actually a clever anagram of 'Cheaper Brown Jokes'.

Makes sense.

Hawkeye

I can see why Labour like him so much - like them a "show trial" confession seems to have meaning to Bercow whilst to anyone with half a brain it is obviously worthless. Only apologies offered from genuine regret mean anything.

Bercow will not last beyond the next election unless he changes his ways very, very quickly.

Robert Eve

I think most of hope he'll be gone next summer.

Boudicca

Not only is he a tosser, he's an arrogant one.

Let's hope an Independent Conservative stands in his Constituency and Bercow loses.

THX1138

Gosh that MP could have been talking about Sarah Palin.

You see they're all at it and so are you lot when you don't lie the guy.

"the Game is the game"

And there all tossers.

TGF UKIP

Come on Buckingham, and more specifically the Tories of Buckingham, you know your duty so do your duty.

PS I'm sure Guido will have the full story 'ere long.

Andy Carpark

Anyone with the low breeding to campaign for the job of Speaker, let alone by toadying to the opposing party, deserves all he gets. From reading his speech from a script held up by a stooge to demanding a written apology, he is making his mark as a national joke even more quickly than his predecessor. Show me the style and I'll show you the man.

strapworld

Apologise in writing?

It is like being in junior school and being told to write 100 lines.
"I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser""I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser" "I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser""I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser""I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser"I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser""I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser""I must not "I must not call Mr Ber Cow a tosser"call Mr Ber Cow a tosser"

Hawkeye

strapworld - wipe out your 100 lines and do them PROPERLY please...

"I must not call Mr Berk Cow a tosser"

"I must not call Mr Berk Cow a tosser"

"I must not call Mr Berk Cow a tosser"

(I wonder if the moderator will let this one through?)

strapworld.

Hawkeye, Sorry Teacher..
Ber Cow is Berk Cow and a TOSSER!Ber Cow is BeBer Cow is Berk Cow and a TOSSERrk Cow and a TOSSERBer Cow is Berk Cow and a TOSSERBer Cow is Berk Cow and a TOSSER

McKenzie

"Tosser" is the perfect noun to describe this 'tosser', but it's the million adjectives that simply leap off the tongue before the noun that really describe his tosserness.

arrogant, conceited, self-opinionated...........tosser!

George Laird

Dear All

I think that John Bercow has to be given time to establish himself.

It would therefore be fitting for MPs to give him this opportunity.

And yes; I still hate Tories!

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

sussexed

Major Plonquer - perhaps Brown's Cheap Joker is also appropriate...

Barman at The Red Lion, Whitehall

Why are we surprised that Bercow is regarded thus? - he was effectively a Labour choice after all..

David Ossitt

George Laird.

"And yes; I still hate Tories!"

You poor man; to state that you still hate Tories, is a symptom of an illness, a sickness of the mind, possibly your adherence to and the promotion of the pseudo religion of Human Rights is the major cause.

Moira

Flemingcrag.

UKIP have said they intend to put forward a candidate in Mr Bercow's Buckingham seat - should be interesting.