Bernard Ingham: We can do without Bercow's bias '“ why the Speaker must resign

I thought you would like to know that, especially as Chamberlain went on to say “There is no doubt that curse has fallen on us” – as it certainly had with the rise of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, with that murderous pair, Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao, killing in the background.

Now, another curse has fallen on 
global politics. Take this wonderful quartet – Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande? They are more than enough to destabilise Europe. as, in fact, they have done already.

Leave aside Brexit, Marine le Pen (France) and Geert Wilders (Holland) are preening themselves in their forthcoming general elections and nobody knows what will happen in Greece and Italy or, for that matter, Germany.

Talk about living in interesting times! And I have not yet mentioned Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Speaker John Bercow, or Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, and her 54 tartan terrors in the Westminster Parliament. All three are entirely predictable.

Corbyn does not know whether he is coming or going. That makes him utterly predictable. He will surely put his foot in it.

Bercow the Biased will do or say anything for publicity in the name of political correctness, even though Mr Speaker is supposed to keep his views to himself.

As for Sturgeon, the Miss Prim of politics, she so consistently hates the English that she would willingly swap the UK for subservience to the EU. There is no accounting for tastes.

Beside this lot Boris Johnson seems eminently capable of proving he is a (dishevelled) statesman after all.

You may wonder what we have done to deserve all this. The truth is that we have always lived in interesting times. It is just that some are more interesting than others.

I am fascinated why Bercow has called Trump “racist”. If one thing is clear about the US president, it is that he is driven by a belief that the polyglot USA’s generosity has been exploited by the world and that he wants to regain control.

He may govern cackhandledly, not say high-handedly, but I see nothing racist in his seeking to control American borders. Dammit, that is exactly what most of us are crying out for here.

Nor am I prepared to label “racist” his 90-day travel restrictions on people from seven Muslim countries. Islam is a faith of many races and nationalities. But it is at war both within itself and its militants with “infidels” outside, especially in the West, even though Muslims are slaughtering Muslims in far greater numbers than Westerners such is the their viciousness, for example, over female emancipation.

The British Left, Mr Speaker and the protest industry, now apparently including the BBC’s soccer presenter Gary Lineker, would be ripe for merriment if they were not so shallow in demonstrating against Trump’s “sexism.” He may be a bit of a lad, but he is not determined, like some Islamist sects, to keep women under the thumb.

Let us have no doubt either that this rentacrowd would be the first to hold the Government responsible if we had the sort of Islamic killing sprees we have seen on the Continent.

Their hypocrisy in these interesting times has to be seen to be believed.

This is why Mr Speaker Bercow must go now. Not tomorrow, next week, next year, still less 2020, but now.

Moreover, in seeking to ban Trump from addressing Parliament, he has assumed, with some Labour and SNP approval, a pious superiority of judgment over the institution he is supposed to serve. He is acting way above himself and the evidence suggests he will not change.

But the irresponsibility of his bid to deny Trump a Parliamentary platform – and no doubt a State visit, if he can – is two-fold.

First, he could jeopardise Anglo-American relations, which are a beacon of hope in this mad world. More importantly, he is sending a message to the world that Britain is no longer the land of the free, tolerant of a very broad spectrum of views.

I doubt whether Trump will take much notice of the noisy egotist, but we cannot have self-obsessed fools in the Speaker’s chair.