Matt Deckard
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Or does anyone else sit at home and watch parliament on Cspan just to look at the suits?
Matt Deckard said:I know... they tend to look like clothes past down from father and the fit is terrible... though still fun to watch.
dhermann1 said:For me it's the green leather seats. But seriously, folks. I started watching question time just to see Tony B. in action. I stayed to watch a process I'd love to see here in the US. I do notice the clothes on the MP's. Those spread collars, the colors of the ties, etc. But it's the whole spectacle that amazes me.
They certainly don't have any Winston Churchills or Nye Bevins any more, but they still express themselves better, more cogently and less ramblingly and droningly, than our legislators.
Harley Quinn said:Pitt the younger...
Listened to a speech while throwing up in the pirvy behind the speakers chair, then came out and gave a two hour unscripted, point for point, response with a hangover...
Exchange in D'Israeli's time
Gladstonei: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”
Disraeli: “That depends, Sir, whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
and if you cross the white line with a sword drawn they can still use lethal force to stop you... the white lines are such that two swordsmen at full extension can touch the tip of a standard rapier... although for the most part I'd have a shillingon the lad with the cavalry sabre every time. Lack the finesse of the rapier, but it more than makes up for it in the sheer bone crushing effectiveness of any hit from one...