It was when Jeremy got his IMF’s mixed up with his IFS’s at PMQ’s that everyone LOL’d. Well not quite everyone since the Labour front bench developed a sudden interest in the chamber’s Pugin ceiling. But that was a good…
Category: Politics
It was when a bloke called Robert somebody from Witney got up and started rabbiting on about high streets that you realised just how much the world has changed. The last bloke from Witney who rabbeted on at Prime Ministers…
The trouble with jokes at Prime Ministers Questions is that they tend to be sitting opposite you. Thus the introduction of Baldrick into proceedings today could only cause further confusion. It had all begun as indifferently as usual, with MPs…
It was Boris, the blonde-haired Billy Bunter of the cabinet, who gave the game away. Not that he did anything, but that was the point, he didn’t, and nor did anyone else. Welcome to Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday October…
Read the PostTheresa May – The Mistress of equal indifference.
Imagine, if you can, a stick of celery jammed between a cauliflower and a baking potato and you are imagining Labour’s front bench. That is not, of course, an accurate description since there are far more vegetables involved. But the…
Did you know that the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the present First Lord of the Treasury, is actually called Terry? Not Theresa as in Theresa May but Terry as in Venables or Thomas or indeed Major-Ball.…
It wasn’t quite the Cavern Club – and he wasn’t quite John Lennon – but for his fans ‘Jez we can” was good enough. He made them wait of course, in the best show business traditions. Billed for 2.15, it…
It was when Tom Watson smirked that the size of the seismic shift became clear. Smirking is not a pursuit normally associated with the deputy leader of the Labour Party. Indeed if there was a degree in inscrutability there would…
It was UB40 who summed it all up as they pledged their support to Jeremy Corbyn yesterday: “To be honest, we do everything arse-backwards.” Actually, to be really honest, it should have been UB20 since, like the Labour Party, they…