Surely not a socialist plot

As usual Simon Heffer doesn't mince his words this morning in the Telegraph.

After a week which has seen the speaker under pressure over the Green arrest and then passing the buck to his Sergeant in arms and the leader of the Commons being asked five times to give him a vote of confidence,Heffer believes that it all comes down to the speaker's shunning of tradition

This is what Mr Heffer has to say

his conduct in the past 10 days since the police raided Damian Green's office has been disgusting even by his standards. In an age when people are cynical in the extreme about politicians, he has shown us there is still plenty more scope to be appalled by them

adding that

The important point about Mr Martin is that, first, he broke with tradition by giving someone plainly agreeable to him the post of Serjeant-at-Arms; and, second, that when something that should have been his responsibility went horribly wrong, he chose in the most undignified fashion to blame her.

Furthermore it is all Labour's fault in abandoning the traditions of the House

there is a deeper problem. It is Labour's (and I include Mr Martin in that group) lack of regard for history, and for the liberties hard-won throughout the past few hundred years.