Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Hard At Work Commons


Best pic of the day comes from the BBC's Parliament channel, courtesy of the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh. A busy afternoon in the chamber......

6 comments:

consultant said...

Don't you know there's an election in 4 or 5 months?

Giles Marshall said...

Ah - so they must all be in committee tidying up the legislative backlog then....?

David P said...

It was a capped hour and a half debate on EU spending/budget reporting. Bill cash was there. Everybody else knew there was no point in being in the chamber!

GM said...

Ha Ha! A little unfair on Mr. Cash but I get your drift!

David P said...

Andrew Tyrie's comments sum it up...

"Mr. Andrew Tyrie (Chichester) (Con): That was as usual an extremely interesting speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash)-apart from the fact that I have heard it before and so have had time to think about it. ...I was going to say a few words about how much worse or better off we would have been in the eurozone, but I dare not, given present company, so I will move on swiftly."

Nuff said!

Maskell said...

Had to look twice there, thought that was your classroom...

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