I always thought the Speaker's role was simply that of a chairman of the

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With this sort, it's nothing to do with being taken seriously; it's enough that you take them at all, give them and their thoughts the time of day. For them, that's a huge win.

I don't suppose you've had too much experience of this but, no; they're like children or neglected, ignored hounds. They will do and say whatever gets them attention. And it makes no difference whether it's good attention or bad. The attention itself is all that mattress. #DaddyIssues

So there we have it. You support the EU because you openly despise democracy and wish to be ruled by technocrats and giant capitalist corporations.

Yet you hang around with yellow vests, boast of decades of selfish nihilism and pretend to be a rebel.

Why would anyone take you seriously?