Can Bercow’s rank hypocrisy get any worse?

Egotistical publicity-seeker John Bercow may yet survive a vote of no confidence after unilaterally vetoing the idea of President trump speaking in the commons.

this is despite the fact the supposedly impartial speaker has become embroiled in a fresh row over political bias after it emerged he had told students he voted Remain in the referendum. the preening pipsqueak delivered his anti-Brexit message at Reading University on February 3, three days before announcing his ban on trump.

But it is his comments at another student gathering that truly reveals his rank hypocrisy. in January last year, addressing journalism students at the University of Bedfordshire, he was asked how he felt about chinese President Xi Jinping speaking to MPs and peers in 2015.

Bercow visibly fawned over a president whose government has been accused of the harassment, imprisonment and torture of political activists. ‘i didn’t think any great breach of principle had taken place by having a visit from the chinese premier,’ he replied. ‘We don’t have visits to the British Parliament only from people who share our values and our political system. . .

‘it is absolutely right and proper that those who have a view about the chinese human rights record have a chance to express it. there was quite a good argument for saying that if you talk only to and hear only from people with whom you agree, you’re reinforcing each other, but you’re not really opening the envelope.’

What appalling cant.

FORMER tory MP John carlisle says that when going to south africa to make speeches in the apartheid era, he was attacked for being racist and divisive.

‘i was often accompanied by one John Bercow, a student at essex University who enthusiastically shared my opinions and attacked my opponents for trying to silence my speeches,’ he recalls.

‘How sad as he now holds high office he should try to deny Parliament the chance to hear opinions from the leader of the free world which conveniently he finds distasteful.’