Sketchup
A selection of lines from parliamentary sketch-writers.
Appearing in front of the Treasury Select Committee, Mervyn King said that the UK economy has continued to "bump along the bottom".
that he gave spectators very little to feel cheerful about:
"The fact that he looks as if he should be jolly makes the gnomic reality all the more unnerving. Forget 'ho, ho, ho', for Merv it is all 'no, no, no'."
In describing Mr King's one bit of consolatory news that the UK's in a better position than the likes of Greece, to a character of AA Milne's:
"He announced all this in morose fashion, reminiscent of Eeyore on his birthday: 'Look at all the presents I've had,' waving his tail at nothing."
Elsewhere MPs were debating an investigation, brought about by Labour MP Andrew Dismore, into the matter of Trevor Phillips being accused of contacting members of a select committee that was reporting on the Equalities Commission. that this is taking up Parliamentary time:
"What shrinking, shivering, cringeing, flinching, intimidated nitwits we have in the House."
that Mr Dismore might almost have got away with his attack on Mr Phillips were it not for fellow committee member and Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart:
"She is as combustible as a Ford tractor engine, and no less noisy. She honked to terrific effect about what she saw as 'a show trial' of Mr Phillips."
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