A suitable person?

Yesterday we learned that Speaker Bercow had decided to appoint a personal spin doctor at £100,000 a year, without interview. He appointed a friend.

There are a number of questions here?
Why does he need yet another member of staff when he already has a team? The previous incumbents managed without. What is the purpose of this appointment, - to cover up blunders, to attack MPs who have the gall to attack him? Does it pander to his sense of importance?

This is the man whose responsibility it is to oversee parliamentary allowances and who promised to bring about change.

Nigel Farrage has promised to stand against him. I think that many Tories would not need much urging to vote for UKIP in any case, but Bercow is a renegade and disliked by Tories. It promioses to be an interesting election in Buckingham!