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Politics => Local Issues and Matters => Topic started by: Lucy Lass-Tick on September 21, 2021, 07: PM

Title: Jill Mortimer - maiden speech
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on September 21, 2021, 07: PM
Hartlepool's new MP has made her maiden speech - here's the Gazette's report.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/hartlepool-mp-jill-mortimer-takes-21634024
Title: Re: Jill Mortimer - maiden speech
Post by: Inspector Knacker on September 21, 2021, 08: PM
Seems reasonable enough to me.
I tried to read frowning Frain's grumble about her taking her time to make her maiden speech, but suspect if she'd made it straight away he'd have moaned about it regardless with his bog standard chunter from the wilderness.
Title: Re: Jill Mortimer - maiden speech
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on September 21, 2021, 09: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on September 21, 2021, 08: PM
Seems reasonable enough to me.
I tried to read frowning Frain's grumble about her taking her time to make her maiden speech, but suspect if she'd made it straight away he'd have moaned about it regardless with his bog standard chunter from the wilderness.

The same chap who reckoned that 'Doc Pothole' was local?
Title: Re: Jill Mortimer - maiden speech
Post by: Inspector Knacker on September 22, 2021, 08: AM
As Mandy Rice Davies once said....' he would, wouldn't he'....Punch and Judy politics at a local level.