It would be tempting to dismiss the past hour and a half of points of order in the House of Commons as MPs making fools of themselves by complaining about things not going their way. Indeed, there was some evidence to support that theory, such as the final exchange of the session between the Speaker and Tory MP Adam Holloway in which the backbencher complained about a ‘bollocks to Brexit’ sticker in the window of a car driven by the Speaker’s wife and shouted, in the manner of a lawyer in a lowbrow television drama: ‘Have you driven that car?’ Bercow made this seem even more ludicrous by assuring the House that ‘that sticker is not mine’.
There were points of order in which MPs complained that other MPs were making too many points of order, and points of order in which other MPs argued for something they had previously opposed (such as the question of whether the clerks’ advice should be kept confidential, something rather undermined by Labour’s previous quest for the publication of government legal advice on Brexit).
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