1/3/2024 0 Comments Thank you captain hindsight![]() ![]() He was particularly effective when clobbering the PM on the cost of living crisis – his backbenchers cheered his every utterance and bowed their heads like reverential nodding dogs. The leader of the opposition’s one-liners were the usual mixed bag of zingers and clangers. The overwhelmingly laddish vibe was heightened by the news that one foolhardy – and so far unnamed – Tory MP had chosen Wednesday of all days to be caught watching porn on his phone, reportedly whilst sitting in the front row of the Commons. If Sir Keir’s gender ratio was that of the Playboy mansion, the PM’s looked closer to the Fellowship of the Ring, a Judd Apatow buddy movie, or White’s. ![]() Meanwhile, the Prime Minister, facing questions about Tory misogyny, had stuffed his frontbench with a team of bros – Mark Jenkinson and Dominic Raab flanked him on one side, Brandon Lewis and Nadhim Zahawi on the other. As if to ram home the point, he had surrounded himself by a sea of female MPs on all sides – “binders full of women”, in the immortal words of Mitt Romney. In the wake of “Rayner-gate”, Sir Keir Starmer opened hostilities with a lecture on the iniquities of sexism, “in this house, or in modern Britain”. Packed into their stalls, the Tory attack dogs bayed encouragingly as the Prime Minister bestrode the despatch box in truculent Bullingdon style, lacking only the club’s notorious primrose yellow waistcoat. At the final PMQs before the local elections, an excitable, knockabout atmosphere prevailed.
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