Bercow belongs to the vandals

What has changed? He finds that he cannot stop Ministers and the Executive destroying parliamentary privilege or announcing to the nation before the House. So Bercow decides to destroy the traditions, joining the vandals instead of fighting them.

New Labour to the core. A pity he didn't defect as he seems to have been infected with their disdain for history by osmosis.

Let us return and retain convention by repealing his appointment at the same time as New Labour's laws are repealed. Fat chance, but this Speaker is standing by whilst Gordon Brown drafts the last rites for MPs' independence.