Wen<p>If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.</p><p>Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.03.04-165935/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/commons-speakers-180k-bill-for-first-class-flights-and-hotels-lr9cj8g9c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.03.04-16593</span><span class="invisible">5/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/commons-speakers-180k-bill-for-first-class-flights-and-hotels-lr9cj8g9c</span></a> (archived)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LindsayHoyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LindsayHoyle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HouseOfCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HouseOfCommons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privilege</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Trough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trough</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Excuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excuses</span></a></p>