Rejected petition Remove John Bercow from westminster.

A new and neutral Speaker who will create order and fairness should be installed. A new speaker is needed to provide our government debates in westminster with some sense of order discipline and fairness

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No Ex-Tory or Labour MP is appropriate for this role

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

There is no mechanism for the removal of a Speaker during a Parliament. Other than at a general election, the Speaker can only stop being Speaker through resignation or death.

The House of Commons could debate the resignation of the Speaker.

If you would like there to be rules about which MPs are eligible to stand to be Speaker, to exclude MPs from certain parties, you could start a petition about that.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 9 March 2016
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