Westminster: you're fired

There was no better indication that MPs didn't understand the public anger at their petty thievery than when they elected John Bercow as the new speaker.

Bercow is the embodiment of all that is hateful in the lower ranks of the political world: bereft of conviction, aware that he will never rise to a position of importance, he is content to fill his boots and feather his bed, laughing in the face of the common people who are made to pay for his venal greed.