I'm not a big fan of Dennis Skinner. He's been in Westminster as a Labour MP for a very long time now and, apart from landing the occasional punch - The people on the Tory front benches are all crooks. Withdraw! All right, half the people on the Tory front benches are not crooks - he hasn't made much of a mark.
Today though, he definitely landed a blow with his Dodgy Dave comment.
Of course, he was ably assisted by the Speaker, John Bercow, the Ernie Wise to Skinner's Eric Morecambe.
I imagine Bercow is loathed by the Tories (who think he's a turncoat) and not much liked by the Labour people (because sometimes he sides with the Tories), but once in a while he is good value. His comment on Dennis Skinner's remark today was worth its weight in gold, in my opinion: Yes, we know what the Honourable Member said: the word that starts with D and ends in Y.
I can't imagine how he kept a straight face.
I don't know about the rest of you but while all this was going on I was watching the SNP benches, in particular Chris Law. I'm a Green but I don't have a Green bench to watch - yet. The SNP are mostly new to this knockabout stuff, but while the rest gaped, Chris was watching quite calmly: it's a learning experience for people like him and the SNP have proved to be quick learners.
Look how fast they have learned to use Westminster systems and procedures to suit themselves. Even people who are deeply suspicious of the SNP know who Tommy Shepherd, Mhairi Black, Angus Robertson and Philippa Whitford are.
And HM government may not like it but they'll be getting this kind of stuff right back at them pretty soon.
I can't wait.
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