Thread 2. Starmer, return of the Labour government

[L1ttledrummergirl]

Yes, lame but the last thread was nearly full.

@tobee I can't see it, where is it?

BBC1!

I meant the live chat, I'm watching on bbc news

Oh hang on! It's here on this thread! Just me trying to get it going. Not very successfully 😬😳🤣

I do hope Nige's constituents are paying attention to where he is today... not representing them that's for sure...

Unless he's back and I've missed it?

Very droll, Prime Minister ...

BBC just said Fartage is there - but I missed that as I wasn't watching

Where on earth are they all going to sit?!

Love this bit when members from opposing sides of the house smiling and chatting away.

If I were Black Rod I'd probably slide and slip over walking to HoC!

Farage is there btw

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Oh, no, my mistake there he is. I don't know what's worse.

All the bling.

I'm not a monarchist by any stretch of the imagination, but I find all this pomp and ceremony strangely moving. God only knows why!

Charles looking as impressed with it all as ever. 😂

I put it down to the history that it represents!

Tbf they were just saying he makes a big effort to not put any possible sense of opinion on it iyswim.

Hope he's looking serious because of the occasion rather than he's not feeling good

Yes, he has to read it without any kind of tone or inflection that he shows he approves/disapproves - which makes it sound really boring!

I want to see how big the print is!!

Didn't they used to do it on goatskin or something?

Sunak just looks relieved, doesn't he

Oh it was on vellum - calf skin I think

Very jolly.

Well that all sounded very reasonable to me!

Is it just me that hopes everyone gets a good lunch after these ceremonies? Sort of thing where you work up a big appetite! 😃

I watched SOP too! Just was catching up with the thread and have just got to the end! I love all the Pomp and ceremony too, despite not being a royalist.
I still maintain I should have been told there were jobs where your uniform includes a sword when I went to careers meetings. Unfair

Why do those pages have medals?!