Its about bloody time the Westminster club was shaken up and it seems to me the SNP are achieving that in a small way.
When will the government (all of it) move out of that unmanageable old edifice and into something more suitable and outside of London?
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^^^ Ah ha. A picture of Nicola Sturgeon.
'She who must be obeyed'.
... Or 'she who craves power but not responsibility'.
Skinner will at least probably produce some rather excellent jokes at the SNP expense in the coming years.
Well it's an outdated institution that needs a real kick up the rear end. If the SNP can do that then I applaud them for it. It's a 19th century Gentleman's club and debating society. Not a Parliament for what's meant to be a modern democracy.
I expect there are bigger shocks looming for Parliament over the next 5 years. Though the SNP seem intent on winding everybody up to cause as much disruption as possible. Who wants to bet that the SNP MP's will take it in turns to filibuster various Tory policies ?
Once the public realises that to refurbish the Palace of Westminster will cost at minimum £3 billion and probably more like £6billion. I'd turn the Palace in to a tourist attraction (to fund renovations) and only use it for the big state occasions. There is nothing stopping Parliament from being moved to a new building, other than inertia from the Political Class in love with traditions that mean very little to the rest of us.
quite right too, stooges like Jacob Rees-Mogg should give others a chance
- there's a typo in the title of this article: The cult of Jacob Rees-Mogg | Total Politics
"Nanny the nasty Scots won't let me drone on...." I believe Stephen Fry mentioned on QI that Jacob Rees-Mogg took his nanny with him to canvass for votes.
The young upstart SNP newbies made the mistake of thinking it was just like Question Time and started clappingdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7.John Bercow, quickly reminded them that the House has traditions and next time its the naughty step.
It is a tourist attraction.
Tours of Parliament - UK Parliament
http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/tours-of-parliament/guided-tours-of-parliament/
I went round it all last year. You might want to get on a tour there's a lot of stuff I learned that wasn't immediately obvious. For instance why there was lobbies and not electronic voting. Stuff like that.
This is what the Huffington Post has to say about that:
SNP: 6 Ways Scottish Nationalist MPs Are Defying Westminster Traditions
"In a series of upsets that have shaken Westminster, SNP MPs are laying bare the musty practices of Parliament and exposing snobbery on the part of some of their colleagues and the media, for doing things that to them - and indeed most other people - seem perfectly reasonable."
He probably spoke that way to his wife