Preening prig John Bercow should be removed as soon as possible (Image: House of Commons)
Earlier in the year, allowing arch-Remainer Dominic Grieve's Brexit-meddling amendment, he was happy to say: “I am not in the business of invoking precedent, nor am I under any obligation to do so.”
Pompously, he added: “If we were guided only by precedent, nothing would ever change.”
He also made the decision against the legal advice of the Commons Clerk.
But now as no-deal Brexit fast approaches, the self-satisfied Bercow points to a 400-year-old precedent to stop Theresa May asking for a third vote on her deal.
His pro-Remain hypocrisy is plain for everyone to see.
Forthright Leaver MP Mark Francois rightly called him out on the first intervention saying: "Mr Speaker, I have not been in this House as long as you but I have been here for 18 years and I have never known any occasion when any Speaker has overruled a motion of the House of Commons."
Crucially, he pointed out that the Speaker had "said again and again you're a servant of this House and we take you at your word".
The same could be said of all those Remainer MPs who refuse to accept the decision of their constituents to Leave and prefer to play endless games of delay that threaten business confidence in our economy.
They are our elected servants and yet their refusal to get on with Brexit is putting real jobs and real investment at risk.
I did smile as Bercow made it clear that the Prime Minister could not put before Parliament for the third time a deal that was not "substantially different" from what had already been defeated twice before.
In truth the only difference making the PM think she might stand a better chance with a third vote is that some Brexiteer
