“He reacted extremely violently"

Hard to credit that the speaker described is Mr Speaker.

Not bloody good enough, regardless of the provocation which on the occasion in question, allegedly, was receiving advice that his claiming the second home allowance while being the non-paying tenant of the best grace-and-favour residence in London (his third home) would 'not look good'.

Doesn't look good, either, that he personally blue-pencilled and in effect designed the rules at the heart of the current unpleasantness. Nor that he went to the High Court to get MPs exempted from the Freedom of Information Act which, we are told by its progenitor, Lord Falconer, was expressly intended to make the activities of MPs as transparent to the citizen as those of public officials of every other kind.

Not looking good, either, that three senior law enforcement officers and his own senior official report that his account of the Damian Green case is simply untrue.

So this servant of the House and of the British people refused to reform the rules but instead engineered an even more corrupt system of payment to MPs, colluded with police to infringe the sovereignty of Parliament and have a senior MP of his opponents' party arrested, lied about it (by inference, on Oath) to the House and to the people, suppressed information to which the public were entitled by law, tried to suppress it permanently (his submission was refused by the judges as contrary to law), terrorised his staff and dismissed those he disliked. Allegedly.

While a scapegoat is not a particularly good idea at this juncture, I really don't think we need the assistance of this appalling man to clear up our difficulties, do we?

Times.