And so to Parliament

A couple of parliamentary exchanges that have amused How Ridiculous.

Yesterday's Foreign Office Questions saw Kim Howells respond as follows to a question from Paul Flynn.

'It is not enough to assume that if people eat the right kind of muesli, go to first nights of Harold Pinter revivals—[Hon. Members: "More, more."]—and read The Independent occasionally, the drug barons of Afghanistan will go away. They will not. The poison that is being pumped into the veins of children in the UK is coming from Afghanistan and we must play our part to stop that happening.'

Then today members of the House of Commons debated financial assistance to Opposition parties (including Sinn Fein). Never are our elected representatives more amusing than when discussing their own standards and privileges.

During the course of Sir Patrick Cormack's speech, the following took place.

Jeremy Corbyn rose—

Sir Patrick Cormack: I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is looking increasingly like a combination of George V and Mellors the gamekeeper.

Jeremy Corbyn: I am usually accused of looking like George Bernard Shaw.

How Ridiculous wonders how on Earth Sir Patrick knows what Mellors the gamekeeper looks like. Surely, he cannot be a fan of Sean Bean?