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Post by Wynn Chester on Feb 27, 2023 12:43:46 GMT
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Post by Arch Stanton on Feb 27, 2023 17:21:50 GMT
I can’t believe she stopped being speaker so long ago (2000!!).
It seems like only the other year she was still doing that.
I couldn’t believe her age either! How did Betty get to 93?
RIP Betty.
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Post by ltd on Mar 1, 2023 8:50:08 GMT
A formidable lady, and a fine speaker - didn't put up with any nonesense from grandstanding MPs. That some of her successors have been so lacklustre only serves to set her time in the role into sharp relief.
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Post by spacecadet on Mar 1, 2023 9:20:12 GMT
We need more like her in parliament. RIP Betty.
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Post by yorkshirebilly on Mar 6, 2023 11:20:20 GMT
We need more like her in parliament. RIP Betty. Fearsome and fearless. Didn't take cr*p from anyone. And scrupulously impartial in a way that a certain successor never was, especially towards the end. Since then, Sir Lindsay Hoyle seems to have the qualities of Betty Boothroyd - strong but compassionate. But then he's a northerner like Betty - even if, from a Yorkshireman's point of view, he's from the "wrong" side of the Pennines. |
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