HarryVegas
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Aged 93. Top woman. Held the great and the good to order...... and kicked Ian Paisley out of parliament.
RIP Betty, she was class. Hoyle seems decent enough it was Bercow that was a bit of a d*ck.Makes Hoyle look like a mummy's boy....she was great!!!!
One of whom was Horace King, a Stockton lad who went to Stockton School, later Grangefield Grammar, where his picture had pride of place in the entrance foyer.RIP Betty, she was class. Hoyle seems decent enough it was Bercow that was a bit of a d*ck.
there’s only been about 35 of them since 1700 so it’s probably a decent way to become more ‘famous’ than the prime ministers.
there’s only been about 35 of them since 1700
I suppose at 93 Betty did alright then“
“Until the seventeenth century, the Speaker was often an agent of the King, although they were often blamed if they delivered news from Parliament that the King did not like.”
This made the role of Speaker quite perilous; seven Speakers were executed by beheading between 1394 and 1535.”