The highlight of my week
was the failure of the squalid Tory plot to get rid of The House of Commons
Speaker John Bercow. This
‘Speaker’ is a man who has been on a long journey from rabid right wing hidebound
Tory of the Tebbit/Thatcher school to the embodiment of what was once commonly
referred to as ‘One Nation Tories’. People like Ian McLeod, Harold MacMIllan
and RAB Butler all from before the brutal ‘nasty party’ of the Thatcher era and
the privileged braying donkeys we know today as the wretched chinless Bullingdon
Boys, most of whom need to use both hands to find their own a***s but, they are
well bred and rich and born to be leaders.
The fact that this last day of this parliament coincided with the last day of one of the most unpleasant: most arrogant Tory MP’S of my political life was a bonus and the fact that that revolting malevolent character was the would be assassin of the speaker made the enjoyment more satisfying, I refer of course to William Haque about whom it was often said “what, that slimy b*****d”. No one better embodied ‘the nasty party than Hague, he is rumoured to have a perfectly constructed glass eye, only detectable by looking closely and noting that one of his eyes shows humanity and compassion, that is the glass one, The House of Commons seems a fresher place already.
The post of
speaker is a strange one it has the effect of making the most partisan of
politicians act fairly before a watching world. This was regarded as a minus
for a Tory Speaker by his party and so it was with Bercow, he was detested by
many Tories because he refused to show his own party favour and liked by all
others for that very quality. Bercow is more of a Disraeli Tory, while Hague,
Cameron, Osborne etc. are more in the camp of Thatcher and Churchill, for those
who are not political anoraks like me that is a compliment to Bercow, A Tory
Speaker of the house, I never thought I would ever say something like that but
there you are I’ve said it.
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