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  This is one of the great offices of our parliamentary system and it has sadly been cheapened and tarnished by a spineless political yes man.
  
  He is however, now totally isolated as even Gordon Brown has refused to continue to restate his support for him and both Cameron & Clegg publicly damning him. Unfortunately there is no parliamentary process for removing a speaker other than death or retirement (possibly enforced by his local party de-selecting him), it is parliamentary tradition not to run candidates against a sitting Speaker at a General Election, a tradition I suspect will not be upheld at the next election if he does not step down.

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