No Heckle From Dennis Skinner At The Start Of The Queen's Speech - Are SNP To Blame?

[Chippiewill]

Britain was plunged into a constitutional crisis this morning...as Dennis Skinner DID NOT heckle Black Rod before the Queen's Speech.

The Labour firebrand's quips are as traditional as Black Rod banging on the Commons door and the party leaders pretending they like each other on the walk to the House of Lords.

But this morning, the "Beast of Bolsover" stayed silent as Black Rod invited MPs to walk the short distance to the Lords to hear the Queen read out the Government's programme for the next Parliament,

Mr Skinner is currently engaged in a turf war with the new SNP intake over who sits on the corner of the so-called 'Rebel's Bench' - a space he has made his own.

Speaking to the Mirror, he said: “I’ve got bigger fish to fry than uttering something.

“I’ve been fighting some other battles, haven’t I? I was fighting the Scot Nats single-handed for a while.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015...n_7449124.html

Tis a sad day.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Boo shame on the SNP for taking Dennis' seat.

I thought the other day he had declared victory in battling them off though?