It was the look on the faces of the ”fucking useless connivers” which gave the game away. Otherwise known as the Parliamentary Labour Party, they had turned up to see how professionals ditched a leader they did not want. Treachery…
Category: PMQ sketch
Just when you thought it could not get any weirder, it did; Tony Blair rode to the rescue of Jeremy Corbyn. Six words in a billet doux to George W. Bush was all that it took: “I will be with…
All that was missing was the music from ‘Dead Man Walking’, but maybe Jeremy was humming it to himself. You had to hand it to the leader of the Labour Party for having the nerve to turn up. But he…
Out on the Thames Captain Jack Sparrow, disguised as Bob Geldof, was duking it out with Nigel Farage, disguised as Nigel Farage. Inside the Commons, Downing Street Dave was doing the same with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National…
It is only when you write Ed Miliband into the equation that you can start making sense of Jeremy Corbyn and Prime Ministers Questions. Regular readers will remember how Ed mastered the one step forward-several steps back, approach to PMQs…
It must have been a good speech because Jeremy was clapping his hands off. Then again it had been his speech, so he should know. There is always something slightly disconcerting about someone who applauds himself – unless you are…
Just when you thought Prime Ministers Questions could get no worse for the Labour Party – it got better. Just when you thought Jeremy Corbyn was as good as it gets – he took the day off. Just when you…
Michael Gove came as a set of curtains, the Lord Great Chamberlain came as Ronnie O’Sullivan and Speaker Bercow came as an antimacassar. The leader of the people’s party put the revolution on hold for the morning and came along…
Had he been anyone else, anywhere else, some kindly person might have taken him by the elbow and helped him back to his seat. But as he was Leader of the Labour Party and it was the House of Commons…
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