Good To See Labour More Constrained ;-)

[Canary42]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-46514458/commons-stir-labour-mp-lloyd-russell-moyle-picks-up-mace

The older Abers will remember * Hezza waving the thing round his head

* Michael Heseltine

[youngmafbog]

Nice one.

[emmie]

did he, i don;t remember that.. isn't it against protocol to pick it up..

[EDDIE51]

Yes, I well remember , he was banned from 'The House' for a time.

[-Talbot-]

That when he was nicknamed Tarzan, emmie.

[ichkeria]

It wasn’t just Hezza. Didn’t Labour’s Ron Brown do it?
No one holds a candle tho to Bernadette Devlin the independent nationalist MP who slapped Home Secretary Reggie Maudling in the chamber (ouch) in 1972.

[emmie]

so that is why he got that nickname, ooohh.

[Quizmonster]

Oh dear me, no, we're not allowed to refer to such past indiscretions committed by right-wing MPs such as Michael Hesseltine's mace-grab in 1976!
I say that because I myself once referred to Reginald Maudling's comment as outgoing Tory Chancellor in 1964, when he left a note which read, "Sorry old chap, to leave it in such a mess," for the incoming Labour Chancellor. (A later Labour Chancellor merely copied that approach, almost thought-for-thought much more recently.)
(Actually, Maudling didn't write 'chap' but the word normally used to indicate a male bird! I felt I had better avoid that!)

My word, wasn't I hauled over the coals by a prominent lady ABer for reminding members of that. Her idea was that 1964 was, effectively, in the Dark Ages!

[Quizmonster]

To be more precise about Maudling's words, his last three words were "in this shape" and not "such a mess". We oldies do get memory-lapses, of course!

[jno]

Quizmonster, I think you'll find that any periods of Labour rule are by definition Dark Ages in the minds of many people hereabouts.

[-Talbot-]

naomi will be pleased.

[Old_Geezer]

It don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing
(doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)

[ludwig]

It's something that happens every now and then when a twit wants attention. They should chain it down or put it in a case really.