Vacay: Part 3

Okay gonna tie up the loose ends of the Parliament visit cos it took me wayyy long to write. You can tell the weekend is when i return to the days of EST huh??

So PMQ's overran (unsuprisingly) on Wednesday due to the incredible amount of news this week but the last few questions kinda deadpanned. The Libdems further embarassed themselves as one of their MP's had a question cut short due to his, well, rambling. This was the second telling off the speaker had given in this session which shows quite how heated things really got. However, through joking about the inability to be able to answer a non existent question the mood was lifted in the Commons. An ex-Labour peep (who clearly still has leanings of that distinction) says that the Government, and particularly the UK economy, are worth backing even in this economic meltdown. Someone slides in with a comment of House Of Lords reform and finally the topic of a high speed rail link (and all it's heathrow connotations) is introduced. However, Gordy dodges this question, which i guess is allowed since the Heathrow debate followed straight after anyways. Finally, the Tories conclude with two scathing remarks, first on the strength of the sterling - we shouldn't focus on that says Gordy. Okay then what should we focus on? And then, in a comic twist to events, after asking whether selling our gold reserves was a good idea the PM replies by stating that the Euros bought with the gold were now stronger than ever. Huh, yeh that's cos our currency is doing so very shiz!!!!!

To round up PMQ's is turning ever more into talk and no action. As the recession causes political and economic reporting to become ever more tabloid, so the debates in the commons become scathing, and occassionally snide, remarks mainly consisting of a sense of "they are way worse than us" as opposed to "we are way better than them". However, the remarkably strong responses of Gordy when responding to the more social issues of the day, particularly Gaza and Nothern Ireland, show he is a steady force who Camcam is still finding it hard to reckon with.

The prize for most pointless question of the day: one Labour MP (female as you'll be able to guess) stood up and asked what Gordy was going to do about women in the recession. THAT is the kind of question that makes women ridiculed as some still insist on being segregated from men ideologically. EUGH!!!! The recession effects EVERYONE and women are most certainly not being targeted. Anyways, Feminism was SO last century.