John Bercow's Rotten Borough
Via The Tap Blog, I see the reforming Speaker of the House of Commons is proposing the sort of reform that would suit him and him alone:
Speaker John Bercow wants to switch to a new seat with only MPs as his ‘constituents’ so he can avoid a humiliating defeat by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage at the nextGeneral Election.
It would mean abandoning his Buckingham seat for the newly created one called St Stephen’s – the name of the old House of Commons chapel – where, effectively, it would be impossible to challenge him.
Excellent stuff. Really tremendous. After one of the most devastating scandals ever to hit the Commons, the Speaker charged with clearing it all up wants to give himself a safe seat where none of us bloody proles can ever hope to unseat him. This is British democracy as we enter 2010; the resurrection of the rotten borough.
Labels: Bercow, Morons, Self-Serving Bullshit, Worthless Cunts
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 4:36 pm
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Actually, the one part of the former United Kingdom with a modern constitution (Ireland) has used precisely this system for many years. It makes far more sense than effectively disenfranchising the electorate in a single constituency for several years.
Except it isn't a case of choosing between a rotten borough and disenfranchising a constituency for several years. The Speaker should have to fight to stay in the Commons, just like any other MP.
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