Hopefully we will soon be treated to fool John Bercows long overdue departure as Commons Speaker

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TRICK or treat? If we are tricked out of a Halloween Brexit, will we be treated to John Bercows long overdue departure as Commons Speaker on Thursday?

It wouldnt be the first time this most distrusted Speaker in Commons history broke his promise to go.

As cartoon TV hero Homer Simpson has proved, audiences love grotesques

Will John Bercow leave as promised or will he choose to carry on sabotaging the Brexit vote?

Will John Bercow leave as promised or will he choose to carry on sabotaging the EU referendum?

So can we trust him to keep his word and step aside or will he choose at the last moment to carry on sabotaging the Real Peoples Vote of June 23, 2016?

And if he does go, why is he leaving just as the crisis he helped stoke is reaching its climax?

Perhaps he is lured by rich pickings from the after-dinner speaking circuit. He has already put himself out for hire for 5,000 in recent days.

Bercow whines he is entitled to make a living, and after ten shouty years on the globally screened Parliament Channel he has achieved lucrative star status.

As cartoon TV hero Homer Simpson has proved, audiences love grotesques.

Once free from high office, Bercow can quickly fill his boots with fees worth tens of thousands a time.

HUMILIATION & ABUSE

But could there be another motive for his decision to go now rather than after he has completely screwed Brexit?

Had he stayed on, it seems he risked being tried on incendiary allegations of bullying and bringing Parliament into disrepute an offence which might have cost him an automatic peerage and a seat in the House of Lords.

Once out, he is beyond the jurisdiction of Parliament.

Bercow has been haunted for years by allegations of volcanic temper tantrums and humiliation of staff, including some of the Commons most senior officials. He denies all the claims.

Official probes have been shamelessly stymied by Labour because of Bercows Bollocks to Brexit stance.

Labour grandee Dame Margaret Beckett blurted out her partys motives, insisting Bercow must stay because Brexit trumps bad behaviour.

SOILED STABLE

The hypocrisy stinks. Labour claims to be the workers party. Here it is standing up for the bosses class.

Parliament has also been criticised for failing victims of bullying. But kicking these charges into touch seems to have worked.

Bercows decision to go now has persuaded former Black Rod David Leakey and the Speakers ex-Private Secretary, Angus Sinclair, to abandon claims of humiliation and abuse.

In 2018 Mr Sinclair, hardened by 30 years before the mast, told BBC Newsnight that Bercow mimicked him and was prone to over-the-top anger.

Mr Leakey, an ex-Army Lieutenant-General, spoke of the red mist descending as Bercow banged the table, yelled and was highly insulting to me personally.

He warns the Sunday Telegraph that a Bercow peerage would bring the House of Lords into disrepute at a time when politicians reputations are already at an all-time low.

Bercows decision to go now has persuaded former Black Rod David Leakey to abandon claims of humiliation and abuse

Bercow’s decision to go now has persuaded former Black Rod David Leakey to abandon claims of humiliation and abuse

Angus Sinclair said Bercow mimicked him and was prone to over-the-top anger

Angus Sinclair said Bercow mimicked him and was ‘prone to over-the-top anger’

Whatever Bercows merits as Speaker, I believe he should be treated in the same way as any other successful but disreputable citizen of the country, says Leakey.

He is disreputable because, as a high-profile public figure, he has set an appalling example to the country, not least in publicly demeaning MPs in the chamber and on television.

As a senior figure in any other organisation, his behaviour would likely have resulted in investigation, censure or even dismissal.

He should not be rewarded with baubles or a peerage.

Having watched this snarling, purple-faced Mr Punch discredit the constitution, stain the reputation of Parliament and demean the most distinguished post in British politics, it is impossible to disagree.

There is now a chance for MPs to clean out this soiled stable and restore Parliaments reputation.

Decent Labour MP and popular Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is front-runner for the job. But none of the candidates could be worse, even preachy Labour veteran Harriet Harman.

Bercows blatant bias over Brexit, his abuse of defenceless MPs and his entrenched antagonism to the elected government of the day has been ignored too long.

To quote the former Black Rod, it should not be rewarded by any party with an unelected place on the overstuffed red benches of the House of Lords.

Dame Margaret Beckett insisted Bercow must stay because Brexit trumps bad behaviour

Dame Margaret Beckett insisted Bercow must stay because Brexit ‘trumps bad behaviour’

Decent Labour MP and popular Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is front-runner to take over from Bercow

Decent Labour MP and popular Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is front-runner to take over from Bercow

Even preachy Labour veteran Harriet Harman would be better than the current Speaker

Even preachy Labour veteran Harriet Harman would be better than the current Speaker

Jo's plot

BREXIT-cancelling Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson thinks we are all stupid.

Her plot with the SNP to stage a snap election on Monday, December 9, has flashing red lights all over it.

It would be a vehicle for oddball amendments including votes at 16 just the impressionable age when fantasy politics appeals most.

She pretends she is trying to stop Boris crashing out with No Deal.

Yet Boris wants a deal. He has a deal.

Its Jo Swinson, her SNP cronies and the Labour Party who want to scupper that deal.