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Originally Posted by Hugh
I am pleased about this.
I think Bercow is an odious little oik (I had a lot of run-ins with him when he was in the Young Conservatives), but they went about this totally the wrong way.
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What impressed me was the Tories who no doubt agree with unseating Bercow but, outraged at the perceived abuse of procedure, voted against it. It's pleasing to see MPs that are above taking advantage of such scheming on a point of principle.
Why don't the Tories run against him? His constituency is favourable to them and, if they win, then they get a extra seat they badly need and oust Bercow in the process. I know that conventionally the parties don't challenge the speaker but it's more democratic than the shoddy way Hague and Gove went about this.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I have just watched this video, but can you see the face of Haigh. With a smirk on his face
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Hague looks rightly embarrassed. I want to see the face of Gove and Cameron who turned up later.
Gove is a disaster. I don't understand why he keeps getting given high profiles/important jobs. After he left Education he was made Whip and since then he has lost this vote, seen two MPs defect to UKIP and locked himself in a toilet.
Even when he was charge of Education he didn't seem to have a clue. He thought Mr Men was part of the GCSE History syllabus because he read in the paper (it was a teacher who got his Year 10s to write Mr Men stories of a historical event for younger pupils).
