Factbox: What does the speaker of Britain's parliament do, and who is John Bercow?

LONDON - The speaker of Britain’s House of Commons threw Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans into further turmoil this week by ruling that she could not put her divorce deal to a new vote unless it was resubmitted in fundamentally different form.

The speaker is the highest authority of the House of Commons and is required to remain politically impartial. Therefore he or she is not a member of a political party while in office. The speaker also represents the House of Commons to the monarch. The grandson of Jewish immigrants from Romania, he went to school in north London and was a keen tennis player. He is still an avid fan and regularly mentions his admiration of Switzerland’s Roger Federer during debates.

He abandoned the traditional speaker’s robes, knee breeches and tights in favour of a simple gown over a business suit, and has ended the requirement for Commons clerks to wear wigs, saying it would “convey to the public a marginally less stuffy and forbidding image of this Chamber at work”. “On more than 570 occasions over the last nine-and-a-half years, I have seen fit to grant urgent questions ... so that the government can be legitimately questioned, probed, scrutinised, challenged and held to account,” he said on Monday.In May last year, a committee of members of parliament voted against launching an investigation into allegations of bullying by Bercow, which his office rejected.

Don't know. Not British.

Please refer to my comments on FAILED’s chapter 1: Troubles in Euroland: When the Cures Worsen the Disease.

Then maybe stop resending the same bill to the house, backed with payoffs, to get what you want.

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John Bercow thinks he’s an old English eccentric, he speeches come from the 16th century and it’s utter Clap trap, he is desperate for publicity,That’s a little man’s syndrome, he had enough publicity when his wife was cooking hedgehogs over the campfire, say no more.

Who is John Bercow? He's a prick and has been one long before Brexit.

He tells the truth it seems......

Must be part of his job to look smug.

Is he also the king of the bees? Cause he looks like the king of the bees.

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