{"id":83,"date":"2004-09-16T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/the-commons-portly-protector\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T11:28:16","slug":"the-commons-portly-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/the-commons-portly-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commons’ portly protector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yay for Sir Patrick Cormack<\/a>!<\/p>\n

OK, I’ll admit here I’m biased as I used to work for the man, like him personally and still meet him for a drink on a semi-regular basis, but top work<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“By this time, and we’re talking about a few seconds after the incident began, MPs had snapped into action. They were giving the young men some very cross looks. Only Sir Patrick Cormack decided to become a have-a-go hero, and tried to grab one youth in an armlock.<\/p>\n

“My goodness, I thought, if they had been terrorists armed with machine guns, some of the least known MPs in the country would be lying dead by now.’<\/p>\n

“Sir Patrick addressed one of the youths. ‘Get out!’ he said. “I am furious! This is disgraceful!'”<\/p>\n

Even before all this our man Sir P had tried to calm it down:<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sir Patrick Cormack, MP, one of the strongest of supporters for the protest, shouted angrily: ‘Don’t let off those bloody things, they’re not good for the horses, and you should know more about horses.'”<\/p>\n

This is what British democracy is all about – moronic protestors break in to the heart of the country’s political machinery, forget what they were there to say, and then get a stern ticking off. I doubt it would work with hardcore terrorists, but wouldn’t the world be a much nicer place if it did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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