Say good riddance to slimy Bercow, the bullying biased Speaker.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Listening to Radio 5 yesterday afternoon it appears that Bercow who was a Tory MP at the time garnered all of the Labour votes as they knew that David Cameron hated him.

On that basis I wonder if Dominic Grieve will be the next speaker

I suspect that in a few years time many of Bercow's current critics will be giving him great thanks for so stoutly defending the rights of Parliament against the Government. If and when we have a left leaning Labour government attempting to usurp Parliamentary democracy the principles established by Bercow will serve us well.

He most certainly is biased. But he is biased in exactly the way a Speaker should be biased. He favours the rights of MPs, and Parliament as a whole, over the executive. As it is the established principle of the UK system that the executive only govern with the permission of Parliament, who are themselves empowered by the people, this is exactly what the Speaker's duty is. Bercow has done it extremely well. He is a hero who deserves, and I hope eventually gets, a statue outside of the Palace of Westminster.

The timing, both of his intended departure and the announcement of it, was exquisite. It seemingly gives the current rabble in government no room to avoid a new Speaker who will follow a similar, if not identical, path to Bercow. Well done that man.

It was highly instructive that at the end of his speech yesterday the whole of the House rose to give him, a Conservative MP, a standing ovation. All that is except the Conservatives.

What have the Tories come to that they cannot recognise the really long term importance of the stand that he has made.

Of course he has been criticised for his hectoring manner and accused of bullying his staff by opponents upset at his impact.

None of that matters when the long view in taken. Bercow is someone whose place in history beckons and maybe in time more will understand why.

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Of course not. I am not defending bullying. Which Bercow has denied by the way, so we ought not judge him on that score just yet. I am putting that in the context of his bigger contribution to the functioning of our democracy.

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That was just window dressing by people angry that their schemes had been thwarted!

Bercow had announced months ago that this would be his last Parliament so he was never going to stand anyway.

Deciding to leave on Oct 31st was a master stroke of timing, as was announcing it on the day Parliament was due to be prorogued.

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You have an odd definition of "window dressing"

There were rumours that Bercow intended to retire in June but when the time approached he denied that he had ever thought about resignation and he announced his resignation yesterday knowing that he was about to be booted out anyway