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Hunt The Speaker
Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:02
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The interest and excitement caused by Mr. Speaker of our House of Commons, John Bercow’s verbal assault on President Truman, oops, Trump, continues unabated. As these days Parliament is televised (drama, documentary, news, comedy?) it is my view that John Boy is bidding for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film And Television Arts) award at the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow.
There he will be not only allowed but expected to join in the tirade of complaints about The President, who I suspect will not only enjoy it but be delighted that the cacophony will give him ample opportunities for the publicity he needs to get his message across, a gift, if not from heaven, but allowing him to give the celebrities hell.
The question of what might be going on in John’s mind and what makes him the uppish, loud, posturing type he seems to be is interesting. He was born in 1963 which puts his teenage years between 1976 and 1983. This was the great age of Punk, Wikipedia and other sites have ample information about all this.
It is said that many adults never really lose some or all of the ideas, beliefs, attitudes or behaviour they adopt during these years. So it is possible that John can be explained as one of the many chaps who never quite grew up, or adjusted to adult society. If, like so many, he was attached to Punk then all is explained.
There is another possibility. John went to the University of Essex, one of the new universities of the 1960′s, located at Colchester. This was the town in the time of Ancient Rome in which the Emperor Claudius was proclaimed a God. Rather later it was famed for being home to one of the hardest military prisons in the world.
Take your pick as to which might be a key influence. There is another one that we might consider. In 1975 Malcolm Bradbury published a book, “The History Man” based in 1972 about an ultra Marxist academic Howard Kirk, at a new English university, who both engaged the permissive society whole heartedly and had dedicated himself to The Revolution to come. The book went to BBC TV in 1985.
John, of course is a Tory, up to a point. His career has had its twists and turns and at times have had people wondering if he might switch to Labour, that is if it was worth his while.
One of the unknowns is how far the fact that he grew up in North London close to the heartland of Margaret Thatcher’s constituency. Could the role of his family or John himself locally have helped him to get the nod when selected for the Buckingham constituency?
So what is John, a north London dealer in this and that? An ageing Punk? A Howard Kirk who strayed into politics and another party?
Or does he see himself as an Emperor Claudius?
Source: http://thecynicaltendency.blogspot.com/2017/02/hunt-speaker.html
