Agenda 2019

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/26/tory-backbench-rebellion-defeats-hagues-attempt-to-unseat-speaker-john-bercow#comment-49539278 Tory backbench rebellion defeats Hague's attempt to unseat Speaker Hague attempted to oust Speaker Bercow   He was a grubby little runt when he addressed the Tory Party Conference as a self opinionated and conceited 16 year old in 1977. Now, he is a follicly challenged self opinionated and conceited 55 year old, who has clearly, at various times during his political career, been promoted to positions far above his mental and intellectual capability. This latest cringe worthy intrigue instigated as an attempt to oust Speaker Bercow, was described as a "grubby, squalid and nauseous plot", which seems a very adequate description. A fitting end to a wretched 26 year period of ineptitude in the House of Commons for this baseball capped Yorkshire man. He has now gone and the House of Commons might be a better p...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/17/prime-ministers-questions_n_5167986.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Prime Minister's Questions Noise 'Puts Female MPs Off From Contributing', Speaker Says Commons Speaker John Bercow struggles to keep order Questions to the Prime Minister. The weekly excursion into the world of “Yaboo” politics where each side of the House of Commons can indulge themselves in mindless baying and snide remarks from one side, no doubt shouted in order to provoke reaction from the other side to draw the “referee” Mr. Speaker to intervene with “Order, Order” or a phrase that Mr Bercow has taken to using over recent years of “The honourable member should calm down”. Questions to the Prime Minister now demonstrates for around 30 minutes each Wednesday, everything that is wrong with British politics and why, generally, there is such disillusionment amongst many people in this country with the political structure. Scoring cheap politi...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/02/pmqs-david-cameron-ed-miliband-muppets_n_5075307.html?utm_hp_ref=uk PMQs: David Cameron Calls Ed Miliband And Ed Balls 'The Two Muppets'    Pathetic behaviour by so called "responsible adults" in the weekly pantomime of PMQ's. The kindergarten of the House of Commons, brings politics into disrepute and feeds contempt for "politicians" into the public perception of running the country. These predominately public school constructs on both sides of the Commons, have brought their childish antics directly from the "playing fields" into Westminster, and actually believe that they are really clever, "landing blows" on their opponents and making political capital with insults, jibes and patronising comment, all to a background of baying, ya booing and raucous laughter from the back benches. An appalling weekly spectacle, which becomes even more ghastly every week...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/order-order--is-it-time-to-bring-rowdy-mps-into-line-and-reform-pmqs-9027619.html Is it time to bring rowdy MPs into line and reform PMQs?      Controlling the mob? I have long been critical of the weekly circus of "Yaboo" politics so loved and commented upon by the media pundits of television and press. "The Prime minister was clearly left reeling after heavy blows were landed from the opposition benches" or some other cliche ridden rubbish from BBC News or Sky News or some other media commentators, frequently dominate the political news "reports", and are as meaningless as they are banal.   (http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-weekly-visit-to-kintergarden.html) It is not only during Questions to the Prime Minister that this playground behaviour of trading insults and shouting banalities across the chamber of the House of Commons is put on public disp...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/facebook-democracy-the-face-of-things-to-come-8967976.html   Facebook democracy: the face of things to come? Speaker John Bercow   The "Speaker" has lost the plot. There are millions of people in this country who for one reason or another, do not use "Facebook", or do not own a computer or do not have internet access. Bercow should spend less time day dreaming and more time trying to find new ways of justifying his defence of the secrecy surrounding  the extortionate MP's expenses claims and the justification of their increases in pay and pension provisions.

 Questions to the Prime Minister.   Ed Milliband David Cameron   Questions to the Prime Minister. The weekly excursion into the world of “Yaboo” politics where each side of the House of Commons can indulge themselves in mindless baying and snide remarks from one side, no doubt shouted in order to provoke reaction from the other side or to draw the “referee” Mr. Speaker to intervene with “Order, Order” or a phrase that Mr Bercow has taken to using over recent years of “The honourable member should calm down”. Questions to the Prime Minister now demonstrates for around 30 minutes each Wednesday, everything that is wrong with British politics and why, generally, there is such disillusionment amongst many people in this country with the political structure. Scoring cheap political points or “landing blows” on your political opponents is not the way that we should expect our elected representatives to behave. In fact I would p...