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Fury as Speaker John Bercow BLOCKS fresh bid by Boris Johnson to trigger a vote on his Brexit deal – with ministers vowing to force legislation through Parliament this week
– Speaker John Bercow has moved to block a ‚meaningful‘ vote on the deal today
– Boris Johnson wanted to stage a vote after MPs delayed decision on Saturday
– PM plans late Commons sittings as he tries to pass Withdrawal Agreement Bill
– Usually takes weeks for legislation to go through all stages in Commons, Lords
– But ministers desperate to get deal into law ahead of an EU summit next Monday
– Around 15 Labour MPs are thought to be ready to back the PM‘s Brexit deal
– Labour is threatening to back amendments on customs union and referendum
Brexit deal vote ruled out by Speaker John Bercow
The Commons Speaker has refused a government request to hold a vote on its Brexit deal.
Boris Johnson threatens to shelve Brexit vote if John Bercow lets MPs amend it
Boris Johnson will axe a vote on his Brexit deal if Speaker John Bercow lets MPs render it „meaningless“ by amending it, Downing Street has warned.
‚GUERRILLA WARFARE‘: Boris Johnson ‘has the numbers’ to win Brexit vote TODAY but ‘poor man’s Cromwell’ Speaker Bercow may block it
The Remainer Speaker will decide later whether to let the PM hold a vote on his deal, leaving Brexit hanging in the balance.
EU President: Bercow Working with me to Block No Deal
Addressing the EU Parliament, it’s President, David Sassoli, let slip that he is now bypassing the UK Government and talking directly to Bercow about how to delay Brexit. Bercow has always claimed he isn’t a Remainer and just wants the Commons to have its say – according to Sassoli, Bercow is actively lobbying against No Deal behind the scenes…
‚FOREIGN PLOT‘ No10: launches probe into Remainers who ‘colluded with France and EU’ to write Brexit Surrender Act as MPs ‘plot for Bercow to bypass PM’
Former Cabinet Minister Oliver Letwin, former Chancellor Philip Hammond and ex-Attorney General Dominic Grieve are all suspected of being assisted by members of the European Commission, it was reported.
Another source added: “The Government is working on extensive investigations into Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin and Hilary Benn [who tabled the Bill] and their involvement with foreign powers and the funding of their activities.
No 10 probes Remain MPs‘ ‚foreign collusion‘ amid plot to allow John Bercow to send ‚surrender letter‘ to Brussels asking for a delay to Brexit
Downing Street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the MPs behind the ‚Surrender Act‘ which could force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Sources said No 10 took the unprecedented action after officials received intelligence that the MPs, including former Cabinet Minister Oliver Letwin, had received help drafting the Bill from members of the French Government and the European Union.
Bercow Compares No Deal Brexit to ‘Robbing a Bank’
The supposedly impartial speaker took the opportunity to declare that he supports written constitution, and even ad-libbed from his script to actually compare the Prime Minister to a knife-wielding street gang member. A new Speaker can’t come soon enough…
John Bercow vows to use ‚procedural creativity‘ to stop Boris Johnson ignoring law blocking no-deal Brexit
The House of Commons Speaker compared the Prime Minister’s vow not to request the Article 50 extension demanded by the legislation to „robbing a bank“.
Mr Johnson has said he would rather be „dead in a ditch“ than ask for a delay to the UK‘s departure, while ministers have suggested they will “test” the law out in the courts before enacting it.
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Brexit: John Bercow to step down as Speaker by 31 October – live news
Here is the full text of John Bercow’s resignation statement.
Colleagues, I would like to make a personal statement to the house. At the 2017 election I promised my wife and children that it would be my last. This is a pledge that I intend to keep. If the house votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as Speaker and MP will end when this parliament ends.
If the house does not so vote, I have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic course of action would be for me stand down at the close of business on Thursday, 31 October. Least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the Queen’s speech expected on 21 and 22 October.
John Bercow’s Next Job?
As Britain’s EU membership finally comes to an end next month, so (hopefully) will John Bercow’s miserable time as Speaker. Luckily, however, the St Helena Tourism Board have posted a job vacancy perfect for him should he be looking for a new job over the coming weeks.
Ex-minister denied vote to test new British PM‘s support: BBC
Ex-foreign office minister Alan Duncan quit his post on Monday to try to force an emergency vote testing parliament’s confidence in a new Conservative prime minister but the speaker John Bercow turned down the request, the BBC reported.
John Bercow’s authority has now collapsed
The SNP’s Ian Blackford was lambasting Boris Johnson whom he identified as, ‘the front-runner in the leadership contest’. He recited some of Boris’s more inflammatory asides including the (plainly satirical) observation that ‘Scots should be banned from being prime minister.’
‘Not only is the member racist,’ commented Blackford, ‘but he is stoking division in communities.’
Calls of ‘withdraw!’ erupted from the Tory benches. Speaker Bercow climbed to his feet but he didn’t seem to know what to do next.
Brexit news latest: The Queen ‚could reject a new PM’s demands to suspend Parliament over no-deal‘
The Queen may reject a Brexiteer Prime Minister’s demand to suspend Parliament to ram through a crash-out from the EU, a Whitehall grandee said today.
Lord Armstrong, who was Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet secretary, said the monarch could decide to consult Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Speaker John Bercow and Lord Speaker Lord Fowler if she believed the Government was asking her to prorogue Parliament to neuter its “rights or duties”.
John Bercow’s bloated ego used to be written off as just tiresome but it’s serious
WON’T somebody rid us of this troublesome Speaker?
Isolated and vilified, Speaker John Bercow is clinging on to get the Brexit he wants
John Bercow may not be Brexiteers‘ favourite as Speaker as the House of Commons, but he has sought to live up to the spirit of Brexit by constantly letting the expected deadline for his departure slip.
John Bercow vows to stay on as Commons Speaker beyond summer
Mr Bercow had reportedly told friends he was planning to stand down in the summer, having spent 10 years in the post.
REMAIN IN THE CHAIR: Remainer John Bercow vows to stay on as Speaker past July as he threatens to block No Deal Brexit
REMAINER John Bercow has vowed to stay on as speaker of the House of Commons past July after threatening to block a No Deal Brexit.
The move risks sparking a fresh rift with Eurosceptic Tories, who have accused him of using his supposedly neutral role in Parliament to try to keep Britain in the EU.
MPs to vote on Brexit deal tomorrow but it won’t be ‘meaningful’
The wording of the Government’s motion had to be changed after the Speaker John Bercow said the Prime Minister couldn’t bring her twice-defeated deal back.
Brexit news – live: MPs to vote on withdrawal agreement tomorrow after Theresa May cuts deal in half
Theresa May is set to push ahead with a critical vote on part of her Brexit deal after overcoming the speaker’s ban on repeatedly putting the same plan to MPs.
Bercow Allows Vote On Withdrawal Agreement Tomorrow
The motion satisfies the EU Council’s conditions to lock in 22nd May as the UK’s new leaving date, meaning MPs could return to their constituencies on Friday evening saying the UK has a new leaving date, approved by Parliament. If it’s not approved tomorrow the UK Government will have to seek a longer extension and prepare for new European Elections…
Brexit latest news: Theresa May seeks third vote on deal on Friday – but John Bercow will have final say
– Theresa May seeks third vote on Brexit deal
– David Cameron tells PM it is time to compromise
– Theresa May pledges to quit if her deal is agreed by MPs
– Approximately 20 hardline Tory Eurosceptics still oppose deal
– Tory MPs tell PM she should quit even if her deal is defeated
– MPs reject all eight Brexit options in ‚indicative votes‘
– Boris Johnson: Why I will back Theresa May‘s Brexit deal
– Kate Hoey: Labour insulting millions by backing 2nd referendum
– Sign up to the Telegraph‘s Brexit WhatsApp group
Brexit SHOCK: Kate Hoey forces Bercow to admit EU law still OVERRULES British Parliament
During a point of order, the Brexiteer MP questioned: “The position would be constitutionally, if this statutory instrument comes before us, changing the date which we have already in our legislation was not accepted by this House – does EU law overrule our Parliament?” The Speaker replied: “As a matter of general practice it is well established that EU law trumps UK national law, I am not saying anything controversial there.
Speaker Bercow – voice of the ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ party
The ludicrous Bercow claimed yesterday that ‘Part of the role of speaker is to speak truth to power – and no matter what, I always will’. In reality, Mr Speaker speaks for the powerful Remainer establishment.
As I have argued before on spiked, Bercow’s backdoor attempt to thwart the popular Brexit revolt is the exact opposite of the heroic role played by the speaker in the English revolution of the 17th century. In 1642 speaker Lenthall defied Charles I when the king entered the Commons with armed soldiers in a failed bid to arrest rebel MPs. By contrast, Bercow has parked his tanks on the people’s political lawn.
Bercow backlash: Furious PM prepares to take on Speaker after his ‚sabotage‘ of her deal brings a Brexit delay closer – but Brexiteers glimpse the ‚Great Escape‘ from the EU with just 10 days to go
– Commons Speaker John Bercow detonated Theresa May‘s plans for the Brexit endgame with ruling yesterday
– Brexit hardliners seized on the move today as new hope for securing a No Deal exit from the EU next week
– May had hoped to win a last minute third vote on her deal before Thursday‘s crucial summit in Brussels
– Instead she faces begging for a long delay to Brexit with no clear plan on what to do with any extra time
– Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay hinted the Government could revive the deal next week despite the ruling
– It puts the Government on course for a war with the Commons Speaker amid mounting constitutional crisis
Order, order! Speaker John Bercow talks coffee and bobble hats after he‘s asked about yesterday‘s dramatic Brexit decision.
Does this House have the authority to suspend the standing orders preventing the motion being brought back asks @alexburghart Yes says the Speaker. The House is the custodian of its own standing orders
Bercow now invokes Part 2 of the stitch-up: directly advising Remainer MPs how to force through amendments using SO24. Benn/Cooper/Boles coup back on…
Interesting that Bercow emphasised heavily the „fuller opportunities of Standing Order 24“ in response to Helen Goodman‘s point of order this afternoon when asked what the opposition could do to force the Govt. hand.
House of Commons: Monday 18 March 2019
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Speakers Statement
John Bercow causes ‚major constitutional crisis‘ by blocking third vote on Brexit deal
John Bercow has plunged Britain into a “major constitutional crisis” after banning Theresa May from holding a third vote on her Brexit deal, the Solicitor General has said.
The Speaker – a Remain voter who has faced repeated accusations of anti-Brexit bias – invoked a convention last used 99 years ago to stop the vote taking place.
Remainer John Bercow blows shock hole in Theresa May’s hopes of holding third Brexit vote this week
He warned Mrs May that if she wants to hold a third „meaningful vote“ on the withdrawal agreement there must be substantial changes.
Parlamentspräsident Bercow: Kein neues Votum über alten Brexit-Deal
Er verwies dabei auf eine Regelung aus dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert, wonach dieselbe Vorlage nicht beliebig oft zur Abstimmung gestellt werden kann. Wenn es sich dagegen um „einen neuen Vorschlag“ handele, sei „alles in Ordnung“.
1) Verlängerung Art 50 für 2. Referendum 2) Debatte und Zeit am 20.3. für Testabstimmungen über alternativen Deal 3) Verlängerung Art 50, um eine Mehrheit für einen anderen Ansatz des Brexit zu finden. 4) Keine 3. Abstimmung über May Deal. @ZDFheute @ReporterZDF
Heute wird ab ca 1800 deutscher Zeit über eine Verlängerung von Artikel 50 (Verschiebung des Austrittsdatum) abgestimmt. Der Sprecher hat 4 Zusatzanträge zugelassen, über die zuvor abgestimmt wird. #BrexitDeal #Article50 @zdfheute @ReporterZDF
„A long extension“ It‘s obvious what game is being played here. The EU (aided by many within the UK establishment) is doing its damnedest to subvert the referendum result. If we don‘t leave on 29 March, our democracy may not recover for a very long time.
@tfbrexit ‚Our present Parliament seems to be treading dangerously close, for the first time since the 1830s, to interpreting its “representative” function perversely as entitlement to reject a clearly expressed popular wish.‘
The Rotten Parliament is the worst we‘ve had since the democracy haters of the 1830s
We live in a “representative democracy” – or so we tell ourselves. But who or what is the present parliament representing? Not the majority in the country, as expressed by in the 2016 referendum and the 2017 general election. Some two thirds of constituencies voted for Brexit – a vote that would give an unprecedented landslide majority in a parliamentary election – and yet most MPs still support Remain.
We would have to go back rather a long way to find a precedent, to a time when “democracy” was a dirty word.
“John Bercow is now a superstar in Germany” reveals Die Welt newspaper’s Stefanie Bolzen #Brexit
Same day the govt motion has as the deadline for parliament approving a deal… Clear your diaries for 20 March everyone!
Benn manuscript amendment brings back Cooper-Boles-Letwin plan to take control of Commons standing orders – next Wednesday for indicative votes:
John Bercow still defending his choice of amendments – lots of disquiet over not selecting one ruling out a referendum. Says he can justify his choices ‚to the world‘
Truly a sorry episode in British democracy – Benn/Cooper/Letwin want entirely unaccountable group of 25 MPs to seize executive powers – Bercow corrupting the office of Speaker to support partisan campaigns – All while MPs trying to force a banana republic-style second referendum
Brexit latest news: Brexiteer fury as John Bercow blocks attempt to rule out second referendum
– Watch the Brexit debate in the live stream above
– MPs to vote on Thursday afternoon on delaying Brexit
– Remainer plot to postpone Brexit by up to two years
– Brexiteer hopes pinned on Geoffrey Cox changing legal advice
– Will the EU allow an Article 50 extension that will delay Brexit?
– Nick Timothy: Mrs May is responsible for losing control of Brexit
– Nigel Farage: Brexit betrayal one of most shameful chapters in our history
Bercow Refuses to Select Cross-Party Anti-Second Referendum Amendment Signed by 127 MPs
Speaker John Bercow has refused to call the cross-party amendment B rejecting a second referendum, despite the fact that it was signed by 127 MPs including the entirety of the DUP and had numerous Labour MPs as leading co-signatories including Caroline Flint, Gareth Snell and John Mann. Shameless…
Instead Bercow has selected four amendments more to his own liking: