Palaver

The new Chamber in Parliament is so cool! Rotating TV monitors, electronic buzzers, log-ins to authenticate every communication with the Speaker, and the overwhelming red colour of the seats that gives the Chamber a very warm ambience. But perhaps it might get too warm for some of the naughty MPs who blithely ignore the Speaker’s orders and continue talking when they’ve been told to sit. Well, from now on they will look like characters in a silent movie from the early 1900s. This is because their microphones will be dead before they can blink twice. Short of jumping in their chairs and yodelling, they will be quite powerless