// Sour end to Parliament for Tories as 'plot' against Bercow is routed.
Humiliation for David Cameron as senior Tories rebel against bid to sink John Bercow. //
// David Cameron has been humiliated after a plot to oust the Speaker backfired amid fury from senior Conservatives.
Nearly two-dozen Tories voted against a “shabby plot” to undermine John Bercow by amending parliamentary rules to put his re-election to a secret ballot.
Mr Bercow had tears in his eyes as Charles Walker, the Conservative chairman of the Procedure Committee, attacked his colleagues for “playing him for a fool” by keeping him in the dark about an attempt to drive through reforms in the dying hours of the Parliament that he had proposed months ago.
The fiasco, which appears to fly in the face of the Tories’ election mantra of “competence versus chaos”, raises questions about the performance of Michael Gove, the Chief Whip.
It is the latest in a series of blunders, including the defection of two MPs and the fiasco over the European Arrest Warrant last year.
MPs said the move was a “grubby, squalid, nauseous” end to the career of Mr Hague, the outgoing Leader of the House, who yesterday celebrated his 54th birthday. //
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11497740/Sour-end-to-Parliament-for-Tories-as-plot-against-Bercow-is-routed.html
Do you agree, it seems fitting that this Parliament should end on a humilating self inflicted defeat for Cameron?