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« Targetted rebuttal | Main | All over at Barton Moss »
Friday
Apr112014

Fence sitting

Last week, Lord Judd, a Labour life peer, asked ministers about the government's determination to continue on the path of insanity that it has chosen (for the avoidance of doubt, with the cliff edge in sight Lord J was keen to keep right on ahead).

The question exchanged an interesting set of responses, with Baroness Verma trying, David Cameron style, to agree with everyone about everything.

Watch from 11:23.30 mins.

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Reader Comments (7)

I assume that this is a pilot for a new series of political comedy.
As such, I think it shows some promise.

Apr 11, 2014 at 6:18 PM | Unregistered Commenterpesadia

Lord Bean can't be real, can he? Definitely a character in the political comedy We Must Act Now, or We Are All Doomed, Minister

Apr 11, 2014 at 6:29 PM | Unregistered CommenterMessenger

I would have responded to the bean question thus:

"I thank the noble Lord for drawing to the House's attention this important source of possible man-made climate alteration. I suspect, however, that a discussion on these lines may soon involve us in technical issues which would be better dealt with by specialist experts, and suggest that he directs his request for information to the Head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Perhaps he could also direct a subsidiary question to his General Practitioner?"

Apr 11, 2014 at 9:29 PM | Unregistered CommenterDodgy Geezer

And I thought the Americans were bad. Wow.

"In the long run, we are all dead." Keynes

"The end is nigh." Too numerous to count

Apr 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM | Unregistered Commenterleon0112

Wow, that's a lot of people sitting around to absolutely no productive end. No doubt they are deluded into thinking they are accomplishing something. If this is as good as it gets then the end is truly nigh.

Apr 12, 2014 at 1:01 AM | Unregistered CommenterCoalsoffire

Since he exit of the hereditarys, the standard of debate in the Lords is progressively descending towards that in the Commons.

Apr 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM | Unregistered CommenterGummerMustGo

Peter Sellers' famous 'political speech' comes to mind..

Apr 12, 2014 at 1:53 PM | Unregistered Commentersherlock1

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