https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/18/john-bercow-commons-motion-brexit-erskine-may
John Crace – two pages rather than his usual one.
It would all be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious; as of course was the Synge’s Last Playboy.
However more serious is
Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/john-bercow-brexit-moment-speaker-ruling
From Behr’s last two paragraphs:
“It also retrospectively casts a darker, more terminal shadow over the decision a majority of them made to reject the deal last Tuesday. Might some Tories or members of the DUP have acted differently had they known it was May’s last shot at getting her deal through?
Certainly the prime minister’s strategy has depended on eliminating options, so that eventually MPs would conclude that the only feasible Brexit on the table was hers. For that to work, she needed to keep bluffing and keep raising the stakes. She didn’t realise that ultimately, in parliament, it’s the Speaker who runs the game. And now all bets are off.
BTW Why have all the best playwrights in the English Language been Irish
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