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Seriously! Posted Saturday, 18 September 2010 at 14:00 http://tinyurl.com/3a2rrl4
It feels like every day I receive a phone call from a newspaper asking me to comment on the antics of Sally Bercow, aka Mrs Speaker.
It didn't matter which party you were in yesterday or what your political belief or ideology was, MPs were honoured and delighted to welcome the Pope to Westminster Hall. That's because we are grown ups.
We are also aware that a fundamental pre requisite for any MP is tolerance. Without it, I would argue that you have no right to serve as a lack of tolerance breeds prejudice. We welcome many visitors to the House of Commons every day from all backgrounds, religions and creeds. The role of an MP is to embrace, welcome and learn from them all.
Sally Bercow badly let her husband down and by doing so, diminished Parliament on such a great and important day.
It is no good her arguing her independence. Sally Bercow, a failed council candidate is not invited onto Question Time or any other television or radio programme. Mrs Speaker is the person who is invited. If her husband were not the Speaker, who would be remotely interested in what she Tweets or anything she has to say?
Stephen Fry and others can say what they wish whenever they wish to do so. We have soldiers who give their lives and fight every day in order that they can retain that right.
Sally Bercow cannot. She speaks from the Speakers apartment. She accepts invitations to appear on national TV and radio as his wife.
She makes comments which allude to the Speakers job and debated he grants. She is political and partisan and I am afraid that as a result of her actions, the Speakers popularity within the Labour party is disappearing a lot faster that it took him to gain it.
The situation is creeping towards serious and if Mr Speaker doesn't rein in his wife soon, he may live to regret it.
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