Bercow’s saviour?
WHEN he became Speaker, the insufferably pompous John Bercow pledged he would serve nine years then stand down. Bercow, who is under huge pressure over bullying allegations, is now indicating that he will carry on.
Loathed by most Tory MPs, they should be careful what they wish for. A dark horse to replace Bercow is the Labour veteran and high priestess of political correctness Harriet Harman. It may yet be the even more awful
Lord Kerr, the former British Ambassador in Brussels, is displaying a worrying absent-mindedness — or perhaps he’s still in denial. ‘If we decide to leave the european Union, we will not have a seat in any of the councils of the eU,’ he said last week. er... memo to Kerr: we voted to leave the eU on June 23, 2016.
A word of caution from former Libdem leader Lord Steel. Always sit in the back row at a funeral, he told readers of The oldie magazine. ‘I went along to the [Scottish] Borders Crematorium to attend a neighbour’s funeral,’ Steel, 79 explained. ‘But on looking at the order of service, I realised that I’d got the date wrong. Luckily, I was sitting in the back row. So I was able to slip out without too much fuss.’
LABoUr MP Chris williamson regularly urges his followers on twitter to boycott rupert Murdoch and his Sun newspaper. oddly, his distaste doesn’t stop him appearing on the tycoon’s radio station, Talk UK, or taking £300 for doing so, according to the new MPs’ register of interests.
TORY MP Zac Goldsmith confesses in Dogs Today that he’s still haunted by the behaviour of his first rescue mongrel, Tashi. ‘We went everywhere together,’ says Zac. ‘Tashi was extremely greedy. She once climbed on to a neighbouring table at a restaurant and consumed an entire pizza before I had time to intervene. The customers weren’t impressed.’