Britain may or may not be broken but PMQs certainly is. It was the appearance of George the Stourbridge station cat that caused the final loss of faith. What was the blameless creature doing on the floor of the House, apart from promoting the world’s shortest railway line? Cat Eccles – a winsome sixth-former from the West Midlands – was “celebrating the journey,” advocating local mobility and telling Parliament about her short film festival in one of the longest questions of the afternoon.
Lord knows how David Lammy would have answered a Reform MP asking the same question. Actually, we know exactly how. Any question – on immigration, the national debt, bond market reaction to a welfare hike, railway cats – will get the reply, “Your Putin-loving leader took £5 million in crypto and wants to privatise the NHS – so shut up.”
