Ah, the Vaz family. Where would our country be without their unique understanding of public service? The devotion to duty. The notion of unstinting sacrifice.
Yesterday Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the Commons, told the House that its half-term break in a fortnight’s time was likely to be cancelled.
There were ‘unique’ demands on Parliament at present owing to legislative tweaks needed before we leave the EU on March 29.
Mrs Leadsom remained confident any necessary law-changes could be made by that date. ‘It is all very much under control,’ she claimed.
Labour's Valerie Vaz MP (pictured) was not to happy about being informed that the parliamentary break might be cancelled
Vaz and her fellow frontbenchers had been calling for more parliamentary time for Brexit
Valerie Vaz and her fellow frontbenchers had been calling for more parliamentary time for Brexit
Helmut Lau, helmsman of the Hindenburg, possibly said much the same somewhere over the New Jersey state line around 7pm on May 6, 1937.
For Labour’s response to Mrs Leadsom’s half-term cancellation we turned our heads, like so many sunflowers, towards Valerie Vaz. Keith’s older sister is Labour MP for Walsall South and (somehow) shadow Leader of the House.
She and her fellow frontbenchers had been calling for more parliamentary time for Brexit. They had urged for the half-term break to be binned. So she would surely welcome the news, n’est ce pas?
But no. A Vaz is a Vaz is a Vaz, just as snails have shells and cats purr and Patterdale terriers bite the ankles of bearded ramblers (particularly, in my experience, those who look as though they might vote Lib Dem). Nature or nurture? The eternal debate.
Miss Vaz could have said: ‘This is the right decision.’ She could have said: ‘It would have looked bad for us politicians to swan off on a week’s recess when the public wants us to crack on with Brexit.’ Instead she complained.
‘I can’t possibly understand what Members are going through with this announcement,’ she gasped, complaining that she and the ‘usual channels’ (ie the Whips) had not been consulted about the half-term cancellation.
She was greatly vexed for MPs who had children. ‘What provision will be given to them?’ she asked. ‘It cannot be right that Hon Members have to support their children without the Government stepping in and providing proper provision for it.’
Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the Commons, told the House that its half-term break in a fortnight’s time was likely to be cancelled
Ladies and gentlemen, I seriously wondered for a moment if my hearing had gone wrong. Was Miss Vaz really saying that because MPs were going to have to sit for four unscheduled days, the public should fund their nanny needs?
Yep. She most certainly was. And that from the party that has been bleating about the need for more parliamentary debates about Brexit.
It may be time the Oxford Dictionary listed a new word. ‘Vaz’, noun, masculine or feminine: a posh suction device used for the removal of £5 notes from the pockets of taxpayers.
Miss Vaz will quite possibly have spoken for many of the voter-screwing bums who infest this place. She was watched with affection by the Speaker, John Bercow, a great admirer of the Vaz family.
In the course of yesterday’s Business Questions, he again saw fit to interrupt his enemy, Mrs Leadsom, and start screaming about the Government (he was cross about the Home Secretary not coming to the House to make a statement about his policy on knife crime). When the Speaker is so weird and so off-centre, it should probably come as no surprise that other MPs lose sight of normality.
Miss Vaz will quite possibly have spoken for many of the voter-screwing bums who infest this place. She was watched with affection by the Speaker, John Bercow, a great admirer of the Vaz family. Pictured: John Bercow and Keith Vaz at a Leicester City game in 2015
Valerie Vaz is the older sister of Keith Vaz (pictured)
One matter on which Bercow has not pronounced is this week’s imprisonment of Fiona Onasanya (Ind, Peterborough). Perhaps he is worried about upsetting her Labour friends.
But Sir Mike Penning (Con, Hemel Hempstead) did raise the Onasanya case, arguing that the public ‘do not understand how someone can be convicted and go to prison and yet still be an MP’. Sir Mike, an experienced Member who can not casually be dismissed as a partisan attack dog, concluded: ‘Something is seriously wrong.’ It has been for a long time, Mike.
As for half-term, I suspect the public would actually prefer the House to take it. Most of us feel a lot happier when MPs are nowhere near Westminster.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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