Somehow a prankster smuggled a phone into the Commons in a plot to play ‘sex noises’ during PMQs yesterday. According to The Times, the phone was discovered near the front bench during a routine sweep of the Chamber before the session. There is ‘no clear footage’ to reveal how it ended up there…
An investigation is now underway, given it represents a serious security breach. Needless to say, the prank didn’t work. Certainly would’ve made for an interesting PMQs…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”