Speaker John Bercow: I’ll stop Boris Johnson breaking the law on Brexit

Meanwhile in Scotland, parliamentarians have asked Scotland's top court to use its unique power, known as [italic]nobile officium,[/italic] to send a letter to the EU asking for an extension on UK's behalf should Johnson fail to do so. I love seeing the fucker getting reamed from all sides.

[quote] Okay, but how is that written constitution working out for the US right now, eh? 😂

If you knew anything about it, then you would know that it's actually working exactly as it was designed to work under the circumstances.

Heh, I added that sentence just to trigger the constitutional fetishists and it worked like a charm. 😘

I'm no authoritarian on Brexit, but I love this guy.

AW-DUH!

AW-DUH!

Aw-DAHHHH!

[quote]Heh, I added that sentence just to trigger the constitutional fetishists and it worked like a charm. 😘

I am familiar with the U.S. constitution and understand how it works, so I responded to your nonsense post. How does that make me a fetishist?

You're a real idiot, OP. Which is why this thread will go exactly nowhere.

Why, R4? Because he behave like a prissy queen who seems to be the apprehension that parliament is his toy.

Bercow looks and behaves like Anthony Newley at his worst!

I guess I love him for the same reason that I love the Parliamentary process. I find it absolutely fascinating that politicians are so passionate and outspoken.

Johnson is just another half-wit who has become emboldened by Trump's shenanigans. The world is chock-a-block with lunatic leaders now. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, those idiots in Brazil, Venezuela, and the Philippines, and others.

He's very Datalounge.

There's little point denying Bercow is obviously an unpleasant person - judged by his history, his ego, the bullying allegations, etc. But the same can be said about the current Cabinet. And at least Bercow is standing up for Parliament, as a speaker should, though I certainly won't miss him come November.

I'm really hoping his successor is a real moderniser - use the refurbishment of the Palace to introduce a hemicycle, electronic voting and so on, and genuinely try to end the Punch and Judy politics.

R11 What is a hemicycle?

For R12

R11 The Palace of Westminster is an historic, aesthetic building.

It will NOT be smashed about to accommodate a horseshoe-shaped chamber.

R14 Except most of the Commons chamber was rebuilt after World War 2, so it really isn't all that historic at all.

The chamber was rebuilt as a perfect facsimile of Pugin's drawings.

Only a Corbynite would suggest otherwise.

Why hasn't Bercow retired?

He looks and behaves like a self-important drunkard.

R16 It's meant to be a legislature, not a museum. They can easily retain the decorative features in an adapted chamber, especially given they're going to need to gut the post-war section anyway to remove asbestos.

Bercow went off his medication years ago with that slutty wife of his. Why has he been allowed to stay?

The could just make The Palace of Westminster a tourist attraction and build a new parliament building elsewhere that is fit for purpose.

In terms of UK history none of the parts that are used by politicians are particularly old (about 150 years), there are a couple of older working gaols around the country.

Jeremy Corbyn wants to modernise the Palace of Westminster so it looks like this—

Imagine trying to suggest Bercow is off his meds whilst your own posts rather suggest you're posting from Broadmoor.

Most of the MP's work at Portcullis House, it was opened in 2001.

R20 I agree, in fact I don't even think there's a need to build a new building. Kick the Treasury out of 1 Horse Guards. That central area used as a car park could house a modern chamber, plenty of offices and meeting rooms and the like, and it neighbours the existing northern part of the parliamentary estate. A tunnel under Whitehall (assuming one doesn't already exist) and everything's fully connected.

R23 So ugly. Why does it need those giant chimneys?

I agree. Portcullis House is one of the most oppressive, ugly structures I've ever seen. It's even worse than Pompidou Center in Paris.

All those "smokestacks" on Portcullis House probably emit white or black smoke every time one of the members of Parliament tells the truth or a lie. I doubt people see much white smoke.

The chimneys are part of the ventilation system and to provide passive cooling.

R28, well they are ugly. Especially when it's next door to one of the most photographed buildings in the world.

I love John Bercow - smart, articulate, passionate, and a strong supporter of gay rights. I'm very sad he's decided to step down.

The consistently great John Crace pretty much sums up my feelings on Bercow

Bercow is a revolting narcissist who belongs on the stage

Me too, R30. HCFMH.

R33 Are you passive?

This piece of shit...

[quote]Boris Johnson will tell the outgoing European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Monday that he will defy a new act of parliament and refuse to discuss or accept any offer to extend the UK’s membership even if a Brexit deal cannot be agreed, Downing Street said last night.

Do you what you have to do, Bercow!

Oh my!

Short version, please.

Why would Boris want to leave the EU without a deal?

Is he on the take?

[quote]Is he on the take?

Yes, in that he and his rich cronies are betting on No Deal Brexit and the pound tanking as a result. It's vulture capitalism at its finest and a bit like what Trump is doing when he announces additional tariffs on China and then changes his mind the next day. Someone pockets a huge profit form those fluctuations. They also screamed to high heaven when the new EU directive on tax avoidance came into effect.

He probably thinks he can get some money under the table during the UK-US trade deal negotiations as well. Plus the latest polls showing Conservatives having a big lead doesn't help the matters either. Sheep voting to be on the dinner table, you can't make it up.

THANKS, R38!

All you British people are obsessing like mad dogs on Boris Johnson and Theresa May but have nothing to say on Junckers and all the powerful men in Belgium.

Because they haven't behaved in a hysterical and unreasonable fashion unlike our own Prime Minister's

^. You wouldn't say that if your were a Belgian hotel maid serving drinks at 2am.

If you have anything to back that up, do link to it. If for no other reason than to explain why a maid would be serving drinks.

The Whinging Poms like to whinge.

I met and saw Bercow speak in Cambridge tonight. Different system, I get it (in the US, the Speaker of the House is a political leader, in the UK he's more like an umpire although Bercow has been accused of being a player) but we could use more politicians in the US like him.

He's an incredible speaker, passionate, smart as hell, and amazing - the first question from a student in the audience was about the recent report on parliamentary bullying and his alleged bullying of staff members - because with a question like that, Trump would have wet his pants before the questioner finished. Bercow defended himself ably, I thought, by emphatically denying he'd ever bullied anyone. He may well have been lying, but if he was, he's a damn good liar.