Lockdown horribilis
Sep 05, 2021
4 minutes
JANE CLIFTON
To the canon that includes, “Couldn’t organise a booze-up in a brewery” and “Couldn’t sort a lie-down in a morgue”, we can now add, “Couldn’t organise a Zoom meeting in a lockdown”.
That’s our Parliament for you. A cross-party team of MPs bickered for a fortnight via Zoom, but was unable to agree to the entire Parliament being accommodated there – despite a virtual temporary Parliament offering limitless availability of ministers and time to torture them, at no viral risk or logistical hassle.
Instead, we got this week’s inaugural, spiritless Parliament-lite, in which a mean roster of MPs was rationed into the House,
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