Sorry, Mr Sleeper!
- 8 Nov 07, 02:51 PM
Lib Dem leadership candidate Chris Huhne publicly apologised to Speaker Michael Martin in the Commons today. Why? For suggesting during his appearance on Newsnight on Tuesday that the Speaker had nodded off while Gordon Brown was on his feet.
But it seems it was far too rowdy for anyone to get forty winks during the debate that followed the Queen's Speech. As Mr Martin himself confirmed: "it was too noisy to fall asleep that day."
UPDATE: Thurs 8 Nov 17:24 - we now have the video. Watch the apology here.
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I thought it was the high point of the session!
Glad the Speaker has his sense of humour intact.
Namaste
ed
You've been telling me to relax all the way here, and now you're telling me just to be myself?
-- The Return of the Secaucus Seven
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Dear Newsnight
Perhaps its all the late nights in the House? Do they still stay up to 2 O'clock in the morning
the speaker has to get some sleep sometime (just kidding)
but do they still run the line that they are not actually sleeping but listening to the speakers, (speakers not speaker) that are situated half way up the seats,
who knows zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Good night and good luck to all of us
best wishes
Bob
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I have tried to "watch the video here". What I get is "rtsp://a1671.v418251.c41825.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1671/41825/1.0/clipdownloads.bbc.co.uk/realmedia/news/media/avdb/news/politics/video/131000/nb/131574_16x9_nb.rm?title="Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ"&au - etc.
This is becoming a frequent occurence but what really bugs is the suggestion that we go to Real Player's site 'for more information'. They don't give any - and why should they? After all, they did not mess it up in the first place. Wake up guys!
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I get the same message as Paul D.
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I used to get this message but it stopped once I updated (realplayer/tools/check for update) It worked for me ;-)
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