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‘Jonathan, PMQs is your chance to ask David Cameron the important questions that need to be answered.’
No it isn’t, Jeremy; it’s your chance to pour shit over him and show everyone what an ignorant, incompetent ass he is. When are you going to do that? It’s about time you stopped making life easy for him.
There are a couple of barbed comments about the UK government in Tom McCarthy’s ‘Satin Island’: Theresa May is described as ‘the Minister with Shoes’ and ‘her immediate boss’ as ‘a man whose intellectual capacities (like all aristocrats, he was inbred) were held in almost open contempt by even his own cabinet members’.
Have we reached peak people saying ‘Have we reached peak…’ yet? I hope so. It’s almost as annoying as ‘Wow. Just, wow’ and ‘There are no words’.
Michael Meacher RIP. I think my parents got to know him when he ran for Parliament in Colchester in 1966 (before I was born). Mum often said how nice he was. When I was a teenager in the 80s, he arranged tickets for the public gallery for us to see PMQs. I was fascinated by politics then (much less so now, although it seems I’ll never be able to stop…
There are only two kinds of people in this world; those who say things like ‘there are only two kinds of people in this world’ and those who respond with ‘stop talking bollocks’.