Queen's Speech: Dennis Skinner isn't funny any more
Yawn. Dennis Skinner's traditional hilarious joke when Black Rod summons the Commons was even weaker than usual this year. "Royal expenses are on the way," he said. No one laughed.
View ArticleHarriet Harman doesn't know her class from her elbow
Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, confuses "inequality" with "class", possibly deliberately. Today she launches a 420-page document that claims that her Government has failed to address...
View ArticleLibya: Dennis Skinner asks Cameron the key question – when's it over?
In a respectful Commons session over Libya, in which David Cameron has stopped to take a succession of interventions, he's just had the key one from the venerable Beast of Bolsover, Dennis Skinner....
View ArticleIt wasn't 'ageist' of David Cameron to call Dennis Skinner a 'dinosaur'
Dennis Skinner is trending on Twitter, thanks to an orchestrated campaign by Labour MPs to brand David Cameron as "ageist" for referring to the 79-year-old MP as a "dinosaur" at Prime Minister's...
View ArticlePMQs video: Dennis Skinner tears into the 'heartless monster' Atos –...
Dennis Skinner, the Beast of Bolsover, was once haughtily dismissed by David Cameron as a "dinosaur" (the PM later apologised). Other MPs – particularly on the Tory backbenches – view him as little...
View ArticleQueen's Speech: Last stand? Hardly. Prepare for the Coalition to carry on
"The Coalition's last stand," said Dennis Skinner in his self-awarded role as the constitution's Gagmeister Pursuivant. How they laughed, briefly. Labour has been pushing the zombie parliament line for...
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