Tell it like it is Tuesday - Bronwyn Bishop

                         Speaker of the House - Liberal mouthpiece and a half

Bronwyn Bishop has taken this 'everyone has to have less money except us' government to a new low this week. But there are still a handful of people who think this ill-defined probation that she is apparently on is appropriate given her responses.

Whether you believe the words uttered out of those overly red lips that even Miss Piggy would be proud of, it is important to understand what the role of Speaker of the House should be and what standards that are supposed to uphold.

Wikipedia describes the role as follows -

The Speaker's principal duty is to preside over the House and maintain order in the House, uphold Standing Orders (rules of procedure), rule on points of order, and protect the rights of backbench members. The Speaker may summarily order a Member to excuse him or herself from the House for one hour. For more serious offences, the Speaker may "name" a Member, saying "I name the Honourable Member for X," following the House's convention that Members are always referred to by their electorate. The House then votes on a motion to suspend the Member for 24 hours. The House no longer has the power to expel a member from membership of the House under Section 8 of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987) While impartial, the Speaker does not usually quit the membership of his, or her, party - as is traditional Westminster convention. He or she does not take part in debates in the House, does not vote in the House except in the (rare) event of a tied vote, and does not speak in public on party-political issues (except at election time in his or her own constituency). He or she is expected to conduct the business of the House in an impartial manner, and generally does so.

Bronwyn Bishop has made absolutely no attempt to be impartial since her reign began on 12th November 2013. Her record of expulsion just topped 400 members - 393 Labor and 7 Liberal.
she continually holds Liberal functions in her chambers and she public speaks in support of the government such as her appearance on Q and A when she defended the governments policies.
The recent misuse of public funds is criminal and she should not only resign but she should be charged and tried by law.

But Liberal politicians always feel they are above everything - they are above the negative impact of their mean policies, they are above the rules, and they are above the law.

But they are not - and we need to push for action if we are to remain a fair and decent country, or has that ship already sailed?

Our weak-as-piss PM is entirely out of touch with everything - but we always knew that - that's nothing new - but he has the gall to be in complete opposition to his stance on misuse of public money (fraud) when it was an independent speaker when Labor was in government - for a much much less amount of funds - i.e. Peter Slipper. He demanded Mr Slipper resign back then but his home grown queen only deserves probation... which is basically nothing as he expects it to all die down and go away.

I trust the electorate will not stand for this and will do their walking and talking at the next election - because we have taken nearly 230 years to get away from being a modern country built on convicts.