A blistering row has broken out in the Speaker’s Parliamentary Offices regarding proposed reforms the Speaker intends to see through. Yet despite this publication’s views that such opposition would come from the Conservative Party, it has instead come from within the Speaker’s own party, the Liberals.

The Speaker’s reforms, none of which are concrete at the time of print, involve making Parliamentary procedure more efficient as well as introducing a set of standards for legislative draftsmanship. Yet what the dissent seems to taking offence to is the seemingly British slant such reforms will take.

The two new Liberal members in the Parliamentary Party, Mssr. Carlos Petrassi and His Grace the Duke of Breisenlau, have both objected to the Speaker’s use of existing Parliamentary procedures and his basic ideas on how to improve Parliament. Criticism from His Grace has been relatively demure on the floor of the Parliament, asking the Speaker to reconsider introducing aspects of Westminster as a result of their own peculiarities. Mssr. Petrassi, meanwhile, has pursued the argument into the Speaker’s Office itself challenging the Speaker’s preference for Westminster procedure. In one instance, Mssr Petrassi even accused the Speaker of a “breech [sic] of conduct.”

While many have looked at the ongoing intellectual battle with a certain degree of awe, political hacks have been taking decidedly different views. Conservative supporters have been touting the argument as a sign of the Liberal Party’s inability to govern with First Consul Alejandro Castillo declining to enter into the fray or stop it. Liberal Party Strategists are known to be in dismay at the public argument engulfing two senior members of their party. The fact that the argument has originated between two new Liberal MPs against a stalwart of the Carmichael administrations may just be a sign of Jean Carmichael’s Liberal legacy beginning to ebb away.