I’m sure Dennis Skinner did it too…I certainly remember him being suspended from the house.
The Beast of Bolsover…was it he who yelled ‘Resign!’ the instant John Major stood up to make his first speech as PM? Brilliant stuff!
So to recap, Ian Duncan-Smith stamps his little foot 'cause his pals want a more up-to-date attitude to child adoption policy than they had in 1955… Boris may be shagging Petronella… Other characters include mace brandishers “Tarzan” Heseltine, Ron “Underwear Snatcher” Brown, The Beast of Bolsover, Anne “Doris Karloff” Widdecombe, John “Considerable Period of Time” Major and the Undead Handmaiden of Beelzebub.
Our American cousins must be loving this!
You can get tickets for the public gallery if you’ve ever in town by the way. Terrific stuff.
We have a mace!
I direct your attention to this link: http://clerkweb.house.gov/105/greathall/artifact/artifact.htm. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see the Mace of the United States House of Representatives in all its glory.
By the way, the current mace was created to replace the one you Brits destroyed when you burned the U.S. capitol in 1814…
Oh, yes…
<< happy envious sigh >>
Hmm. Nice bit of fascist iconography there. You could do a bit of damage to someone’s head with those eagle wings too couldn’t you?
We’ve actually got three maces - one in the House of Commons (that’s the one we’ve been talking about), and two more in the House of Lords. There’s no chance of the Lords’ ones being waved around though, 'cause all the members there look like Mr Burns.
We used to have a mace in the Victorian parliament. According to legend it was mislaid in a brothel.
That’s nothing. On a board at work is a fabulous statement from the “new economy” era: the rate of technological progress is increasing.
So you do… but you keep it in the wrong place. You don’t want it up there next to the Speaker, you want it out in the middle where people can get to it. Livens up debates no end.
the us mace looks like it could put an eye out. that eagle design looks a bit dangerous.
things were a bit wilder in the good old days… back when strom was just a lad. the founding father and sons didn’t always have water in the pitchers.
senator sumner was attacked with a cane in the senate. it took him quite a while to recover. things were a bit wilder in the 1850’s.
now we just wheel out strom, who would never in a hundred years, come up with a brilliant turn of phrase. murally dyslexic, sheer genius.
…he’s still not dead?
<< checks Google >>
Jeepers. I could’ve sworn he had to be dead.
He’ll be 100 on December 5.
I’ll see your “murally dyslexic”, and raise you a “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up,”
courtesy of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Check out this site for some classic Keating insults.
Aah, those were the days.
He’s actually been dead since the 50s, but his body just hasn’t figured it out yet.