“比以往任何时候都更动物”：欧洲人在约翰·伯考身上找到快乐
More animal than ever': Europeans find joy in John Bercow
大陆媒体对议长的风格很感兴趣，但有传言称 10 号可能会阻碍传统的贵族爵位
丹尼尔·博菲 丹尼尔·博菲在布鲁塞尔
2019年1月
当欧洲大陆的欧洲人目睹英国脱欧车祸时，一位数据让那些刚接触英国政治特殊性的人松了一口气。
冗长的下议院议长约翰·伯考（John Bercow）经常发表雷鸣般的声明，已成为报纸上众多人物简介的主题，还有一些精彩视频在社交媒体上大量分享。
荷兰报纸 De Volkskrant 在其议长简介的标题中写道：“英国岛上没有人能比约翰·伯考更优美地喊出‘秩序，秩序’。”
梅在回复科尔宾时声称政府不可能排除无协议脱欧的可能性——事实确实如此
文章接着指出，“在这些动荡的日子里，英国政治中唯一的秩序来自约翰·伯考的嘴”。
“他比以往任何时候都更加大声、喧闹，是的，更加兽性，他大喊‘命令，命令’，这位 55 岁的下议院议长试图用这句话安抚著名议会的成员。”
尽管伯考在国外很受欢迎，但在国内，他被认为对政府非常恼火，以至于周四晚上有传言称，当他担任议长的任期结束时，唐宁街可能会拒绝授予他通常的贵族头衔。
10号内部人士表示，虽然他们“并不是假装他在内阁内部广受欢迎”，但他们“现在有更好的事情要考虑”——尽管一位有影响力的内阁部长的盟友表示“绝对有可能阻止或拒绝提名他” 如果特雷莎·梅选择这样做，请向上议院提出。
他将成为 230 年来第一位被封爵爵位的议长。
比利时报纸《晚报》的一篇社论将英国脱欧辩论描述为一个“黑洞”——无休止地喋喋不休地吞噬自己——称伯考“无法忍受，常常难以忍受，但却是不可替代的”。
德国电视新闻节目 Tagesschau 为社交媒体制作了一段 58 秒的视频，题为《Order！》 命令！ 命令！ 这显然让成千上万的人感到高兴，推特和脸书上发布了一系列有趣的评论。 “蒙蒂·派森风格。 太棒了，”一位观众在推特上写道。
尽管一些人批评伯考允许举行投票，迫使首相在脱欧协议被拒绝后三天内前往下议院，但一些知名欧洲媒体却持相反观点。 这场争吵足以让法国国际广播电台将贝尔考评为“本周欧洲人物”。
我们不知道伯考对所有的关注有何看法，就连他的崇拜者也承认，他不能被描述为害羞的人。 自 2009 年起担任议长的伯考在回应对其对待国会议员的方式的批评时一直毫无歉意。
“我正在努力做正确的事情并做出正确的判断”，他本周对议员们说。 “这就是我一直在努力做的事情，也是我将继续做的事情。”
'More animal than ever': Europeans find joy in John Bercow
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/more-animal-than-ever-europeans-find-joy-in-john-bercow
Continental press warms to Speaker’s style, but rumours swirl No 10 may block customary peerage
Daniel Boffey Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Jan 2019
As Europeans on the continent have watched the UK’s Brexit car crash, one figure offered some light relief to those new to the peculiarities of British politics.
The often thunderous pronouncements of John Bercow, the verbose Speaker of the House of Commons, have become the subject of numerous profiles in newspapers, and a fair few highlights videos, shared heavily on social media.
The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant headlined its profile of the Speaker: “No one on the British island can call ‘order, order’ more beautifully than John Bercow.”
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The article went on to suggest “the only order in British politics comes from John Bercow’s mouth in these turbulent days”.
“Louder, boisterous and, yes, more animal than ever, he shouts ‘order, order’, with which the 55-year-old House of Commons Speaker tries to calm down the members of the famous parliament.”
Despite his popularity abroad, at home Bercow is regarded as such an irritant to the government that speculation was swirling on Thursday night that he could be denied the customary peerage by Downing Street when his time as Speaker comes to an end.
No 10 insiders said that while they were “not pretending he’s wildly popular inside cabinet” they had “better things to think about right now” – although the ally of one influential cabinet minister said “it is definitely possible to block or refuse to nominate him” to the House of Lords if Theresa May were to chose to do so.
He would be the first Speaker in 230 years to have his peerage blocked.
An editorial in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, which depicted the Brexit debate as a “black hole” – eating itself as it interminably chunters on – described Bercow as “impossible to live with, often unbearable, but irreplaceable”.
The German TV news programme Tagesschau compiled a 58-second video for social media entitled Order! Order! Order! that evidently delighted thousands, with a string of amused comments posted below on Twitter and Facebook. “Monty Pythonesque. Glorious,” one viewer tweeted.
While some attacked Bercow for allowing a vote that will force the prime minister to come to the Commons within three days of having her Brexit deal rejected, some well-known European media outlets took the opposite view. The row was enough for Radio France Internationale to name Bercow its “European of the week”.
It is not known what Bercow, who even his admirers admit could not be described as publicity-shy, thinks of all the attention. In response to the criticism of his handling of MPs, Bercow, the Speaker since 2009, has been unapologetic.
“I’m trying to do the right thing and make the right judgments”, he told MPs this week. “That is what I have tried to do and what I will go on doing.”
