| Ajescent said: From my understanding: The official speaker (I.e the man meant to be where the woman in the middle constantly shooting "Order!" is sat) was suspended for sending sexist texts and the opposition leader kept asking for him to get fired. This is her saying, hang on..."hypocrite alert." |
To add to this, the official speaker was actually once a member of the opposition leader's party. We're currently in a hung parliament, with several independents having the power to tip decisions one way or another. The two major parties have been rather relentless in their struggle, one supposed case even having a member missing the birth of their child in order to keep the numbers up on voting against a bill.
The speaker's chair effectively lose their parliamentary vote on issues, so when an opposition party member was instated, it gave the ruling party an extra vote in a tight parliament. There was that much uproar across the bench that the newly instated speaker had to expel two members of his own party: the opposition leader and our local member, who is the loudest mouth in the entire parliament.
