Echoes of Andrew Mitchell's gag when seconding the Queen's Speech in 1992. The motion is nearly always proposed by some genial old codger on the way out and seconded by an oily young man on… (View Post)

Unfortunately, said village hall is unavailable , because it's having its roof fixed by the Liberal Democrats. It's all those buggers ever do. (View Post)

Though, given that anything that politicians say will make them less popular, understandable. The Paxman style of political interview was great entertainment, and for a while, illuminating. But it pr… (View Post)

Quite an achievement to get Canada and Australia on board for an internal UK Labour party matter. (View Post)

It would be like when big companies do voluntary redundancy programmes. A lot of the people who go are the ones who, form a pure profit and loss point of view, you might want to keep. (And besides, t… (View Post)