Lindsay Hoyle

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Anyone think his behaviour/judgement today is a disgrace for someone supposed to be impartial.

I won't argue with anyone who suggests tories are not always above board but is the alternative any different.

I fear not.

Starmer v Sunak is one very small step up from Trump v Biden.

Don't we deserve better?

Views?

Well, yes. It is the police's job to protect MPs, but we know that doesn't always work. While we hope that the police will manage to keep everyone safe, I don't suppose that many MPs are 100% confident in their ability to do so. I think the fears are real and justified.... these people have seen two of their colleagues murdered in recent years, and many more of them have experienced serious threats and harassment.

Hoyle got it wrong the other day, and he has apologised for his error of judgement. I agree with those who say that we can't allow threats of violence to change the way our parliament operates. However, I don't believe that Hoyle's decision was motivated by party politics, as many have tried to suggest. I do think it was a decision made out of genuine and justifiable concern for the safety and wellbeing of his colleagues. And yes, perhaps his approach wasn't the best way of responding to those concerns, as he has acknowledged, but I don't think a misguided attempt to protect the lives of others is grounds for demanding his resignation either.

You’re right threats should not influence democratic process. Otherwise we may as well throw the keys to the mob

You’re also correct on Starmer urging Hoyle so he could avoid a 100 MP revolt which was incredibly poor

As for safety it looks like we’re funding extra security for MPs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/24/mps-given-bodyguards-as-extremism-threat-rises/

Also in The Guardian and other press

I think speaker Hoyle is a good speaker. I don’t think his one mistake is worth forcing him to go. Many others make mistakes and he has realised he was wrong. So it won’t happen again. The Laura Kuenssberg’s piece for BBC news app reveals how worried some MPs are. Very few are getting protection and most people think the police don’t offer sufficient protection. When MPs are harried in the street and their homes are targeted, the police must act. We then get the Anderson comments which add fuel to the fire. If action was taken much sooner, the likes of Anderson would not be whipping up the Right so successfully.

He’s under fire again today after a few weeks ago saying that he did what he did because he feared for the lives of the MPs

and today behaving like this

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/speaker-slammed-for-not-calling-diane-abbott-at-pmqs_uk_65f1a17ae4b02ad7de1b235a

In the last few weeks has shown many terrible errors of judgement imo.

Suppressing debate because of fears of the 'mob' is just so wrong.

Today also was pretty disastrous for him.

He has to go. He's a joke.

He was useless yesterday. A Labour MP was unable to speak despite standing up to get Hoyle's attention no less than 46 times. All this whilst a chamber full of men fully debated a racist and misogynistic insult which was actually made about her. Disgraceful.

The whole concept of taking one MP to be Speaker is questionable in my view.

One constituency loses their elected representative - he can't ask questions in the House on their behalf.

It's a thankless task - damned if he does and if he doesn't

He is expected to be apolitical/neutral when the reason he's in the House of commons is because he campaigned to be elected on behalf of a specific political party.

Anyone who had that role in a corporate environment would get on the job training.

But it was ridiculous that a black woman spent 30 mins being talked about without being able to speak herself on her own experience.