Should We Get An Impartial Speaker?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38947257
Clearly Bercow's recent outbursts have proved he is incompetent.

[ladybirder]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/speaker-john-bercow-reveals-remain-brexit-eu-referendum-impartiality-debate-a7575801.html

[Gromit]

// The speaker's chair is not a seat for anyone to voice their private views to the world. //

Which is why he made his comments at Reading University.

[Togo]

//House of Commons speaker John Bercow slammed Donald Trump during a speech at the University of Reading, just three days before his unprecedented outburst in Parliament.//
In what he called a dress rehearsal!!!!
Do you not even read your own links?

[Togo]

Allow me.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/speaker-john-bercow-slams-donald-12569147

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "There is no requirement by Parliament to admit the POTUS to the chamber and speak" - we are not talking about the chamber, it's done in a banquet hall somewhere, I don't think even saint Mandella addressed the chamber.

[Old_Geezer]

No one is really impartial, they simply have to act it when the occasion demands. Bercow will have opinions, even if they are misguided ones. He can't help that.

[Gromit]

If the Prime Minister, who is tasked with delivering Brexit, voted Remain, then the fact that the speaker did, is really quite irrelevant.

Some MPs really do have a problem accepting votes they lose. Whether they are Labour MPs who end up with a leader they don't want, or Conservative MPs who lose the vote on the Speaker, but still moan about him.

[Gromit]

In Parliamentary terms, impartial means Party Politically neutral. The EU referendum went across parties and so he cannot be sacked for bias, as he is not discriminating for or against any of the parties.

[Togo]

// The EU referendum went across parties and so he cannot be sacked for bias, as he is not discriminating for or against any of the parties.//

What has that got to do with this calculated slight to the President of the United States? Except for in your narrow train of thought.

[askyourgran]

Bercow is an idiot he has already proved how unsuited he is as Speaker, his role demands that he should be neutral. His embarrassing speech was made in the House where the nations elected ministers are present, while he airs his view of the elected President of the United States. He should be sacked. Off with his head,

[Ellipsis]

Your forgot the "Period!", AYG ...

[mikey4444]

Gran......"Bercow is an idiot he has already proved how unsuited he is as Speaker"

Already ? I presume you meant before he made the statement about Trump.

How and why was he "unsuited" then ?

[Togo]

Perhaps he had a rare few days with his wife, and they were swapping reality TV stories. Then he just couldn't resist trying to "outdo" her. Take some doing mind. Just like the narcissistic little troll has always been.

[askyourgran]

Even before this outburst Mikey, he is a nasty little person. His private life has too often impinged on his Ministerial role and made him a laughing stock, to my mind he is not suitable for the job. And his cojones will be small anyway.

[mikey4444]

Thanks Gran ! A question answered and one that I can understand !

[Togo]

Yehh Mikey and if his cojones were big ones, Askyagran was gonna give em a right good wellie anyway. :))

[ichkeria]

Whatever other controversy Bercow might attract, the issue of his 'impartiality' over Brexit is a nonsense. Did anyone expect him not to have an opinion and not to vote? So now he's happened to mention that he voted Remain. Is anyone really surprised? I don't see how that really affects anything. He was after all a Tory MP but that doesn't seem to have affected his ability to be impartial despite his being constantly badmouthed by some in his own party.

[mikey4444]

Ichy....most inhabitants of the House of Commons voted to REMAIN....we would be surprised if Bercow bucked the trend.

The reality here though, is that if he said he voted to LEAVE, we wouldn't be hearing a peep out of the Usual Suspects, with their wittering on about incompetency.

Its Europe, the Tory Parties Bete Noire not Trump that is the issue here.

[bestgamingchair]

The position of Speaker of the House of Commons is perhaps the most prestigious role in the Palace of Westminster, and by extension, in legislatures throughout the world. Along with our monarch, the Speaker’s ability to express their views to the government privately, yet show total impartiality publicly, is a cornerstone of British democracy. Upon appointment to the role of Speaker, the member of parliament is required to withdraw any party affiliation in order to guarantee absolute neutrality when presiding over debate. But yesterday, instead of moderating the debate, the Speaker breached that neutrality and made himself the story.

It was unwise of him to take a position that was so blatantly contrary to that of our elected government, that of many members of the House he is supposed to represent, and that of the legitimately elected president of our closest ally – the US.