Whooooo remembers John Bercow? It has been sometime since the disgraced former Speaker attracted Steerpike’s attention. Having been banished unceremoniously from The Traitors two years ago, Mr S’s chief preoccupation with Bercow was whether or not he remains a member of the Labour party, having been suspended some four years ago. But the onetime Monday Club devotee is back in the headlines, as part of his never-ending quest for the spotlight.
It seems that Bercow, having done his damnedest to thwart Britain’s parliamentary democracy, is now turning his attention to politics overseas. A quick Google of his name reveals that the pint-sized parliamentarian has rebranded himself as an expert on Iranian matters. Bercow has penned pieces for CapX and the Express demanding the West throw its weight behind Maryam Rajavi, the head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, rather than Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deceased Shah. Truly, we are not sending our best…
And as part of these efforts, Bercow rocked up last week at an international conference in Paris to address members of the Iranian Resistance. Much of his speech was vitriol against Pahlavi, describing him as a ‘monumental, everlasting sideshow’ who is ‘irrelevant to the real struggle’, suggesting instead that Pahlavi take up hobbies like ‘Japanese basket weaving’ or ‘specialist cooking’ rather than ‘muddying the waters’ of Iran’s future.
Mr S wonders whether Bercow might ever consider following the same advice…
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