MPs’ parents ‘dreading the summer holidays’
Just days after Parliament broke up for the summer recess, parents of MPs are already wondering how on earth they are meant to occupy their children until the House of Commons re-opens in October. After the initial novelty of spending some time with their Members of Parliament again, desperate parents were today seen outside the gates of the Palace of Westminster begging police officers to let their children back in on the grounds that they’d ‘forgotten their lunchboxes’.
‘It’s absurd that they get so long off,’ said Alan Duncan’s father today. ‘All he’s doing is sitting around the house watching repeats on the Parliament Channel.’
Posted: Jul 24th, 2009
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