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“比以往任何時候都更動物”：歐洲人在約翰·伯考身上找到快樂
More animal than ever': Europeans find joy in John Bercow
大陸媒體對議長的風格很感興趣，但有傳言稱 10 號可能會阻礙傳統的貴族爵位
丹尼爾·博菲 丹尼爾·博菲在布魯塞爾
2019年1月
當歐洲大陸的歐洲人目睹英國脫歐車禍時，一位數據讓那些剛接觸英國政治特殊性的人鬆了一口氣。
冗長的下議院議長約翰·伯考（John Bercow）經常發表雷鳴般的聲明，已成為報紙上眾多人物簡介的主題，還有一些精彩視頻在社交媒體上大量分享。
荷蘭報紙 De Volkskrant 在其議長簡介的標題中寫道：“英國島上沒有人能比約翰·伯考更優美地喊出‘秩序，秩序’。”
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文章接著指出，“在這些動蕩的日子裏，英國政治中唯一的秩序來自約翰·伯考的嘴”。
“他比以往任何時候都更加大聲、喧鬧，是的，更加獸性，他大喊‘命令，命令’，這位 55 歲的下議院議長試圖用這句話安撫著名議會的成員。”
盡管伯考在國外很受歡迎，但在國內，他被認為對政府非常惱火，以至於周四晚上有傳言稱，當他擔任議長的任期結束時，唐寧街可能會拒絕授予他通常的貴族頭銜。
10號內部人士表示，雖然他們“並不是假裝他在內閣內部廣受歡迎”，但他們“現在有更好的事情要考慮”——盡管一位有影響力的內閣部長的盟友表示“絕對有可能阻止或拒絕提名他” 如果特雷莎·梅選擇這樣做，請向上議院提出。
他將成為 230 年來第一位被封爵爵位的議長。
比利時報紙《晚報》的一篇社論將英國脫歐辯論描述為一個“黑洞”——無休止地喋喋不休地吞噬自己——稱伯考“無法忍受，常常難以忍受，但卻是不可替代的”。
德國電視新聞節目 Tagesschau 為社交媒體製作了一段 58 秒的視頻，題為《Order！》 命令！ 命令！ 這顯然讓成千上萬的人感到高興，推特和臉書上發布了一係列有趣的評論。 “蒙蒂·派森風格。 太棒了，”一位觀眾在推特上寫道。
盡管一些人批評伯考允許舉行投票，迫使首相在脫歐協議被拒絕後三天內前往下議院，但一些知名歐洲媒體卻持相反觀點。 這場爭吵足以讓法國國際廣播電台將貝爾考評為“本周歐洲人物”。
我們不知道伯考對所有的關注有何看法，就連他的崇拜者也承認，他不能被描述為害羞的人。 自 2009 年起擔任議長的伯考在回應對其對待國會議員的方式的批評時一直毫無歉意。
“我正在努力做正確的事情並做出正確的判斷”，他本周對議員們說。 “這就是我一直在努力做的事情，也是我將繼續做的事情。”
'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.”
