Benedict Rogers defends John Bercow from the Right:
Ought not especially those who consider themselves Christians reflect on whether their blogs serve a higher purpose or are simply self-serving, vacuous, and unnecessarily unpleasant about their colleagues? Was it really appropriate and necessary to bring John’s wife’s political views into the debate about his candidacy for the Speakership? For those Conservatives who call themselves Christian, oughtn’t they to consider what kind of message they are giving out when they speak in such unnecessarily unforgiving, judgmental, hateful tones about a parliamentary colleague?
It isn’t particularly edifying to watch one’s own side wield the knife with such glee, particularly among junior Tory bloggers who should know better. Those who are plotting to oust him as Speaker should Parliament gain a Conservative majority should wind their necks in now. It will look, and be, utterly ridiculous.
It is galling that some are strutting round now trying to create an ideological litmus test, or proclaim that those who hold similar views have no place in the party. It’s almost as if they wished he’d defected to Labour. The Conservative Party is only fit for government when it is a broad church.
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