The big lunk that’s Sue Gray’s son stood up on his two strong legs to say how proud he was to be a disabled MP. Carolyn Harris with the pelt of a purple hedgehog on her head flaunted a fashionable delusion telling the House, “There’s a reason for a season, everyone deserves a Christmas” (apart from 5 billion non-Christians and 2 billion unrepentant Christian sinners). Alison Howe made play of being “a woman of a certain age” and asked for protection from misogynists such as that greengrocer on the BBC. Keir Starmer obliged by listing his new laws, regulations and guidances to make the world a better place for Alison. There was a time when middle-aged, middle-class women could freeze off-colour banter with a narrowing of the eyes. Then it required an added compression of the lips. Now they need 2TK’s SWAT squad of linguistic commandos and two-year prison sentences to have their way.
So! My poison sacs have been squeezed, we can resume the calm, patient work of sketching PMQs; the sketch of service.
