On the Move?

rupahuq Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 05:01:37 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Parliament's roof is due for repair and it looks like MPs will have to decamp somewhere else while the work is done which has got some bloggers going.



Suggestions under consideration so far for the temporary chamber are Church House, QE2 Conference Centre, Methodist Central Hall (all in division bell distance of the current Commons) and the GLC's County Hall (on the other side of the river). Some are being more radical and suggesting that this arcane relic of Victorian Gothic non-user friendliness 'n' yah-boo adverserialism is not fit for purpose and needs pulling down to be replaced with a more modern thing boasting a glass atrium and swimming pool. Others weighing in are suggesting moving it to Manchester.

What will the HP sauce bottles of the future look like?



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On the Move? | 9 comments (9 topical)

Re: On the Move? (#1)

by red flagger on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 06:41:49 PM GMT

Parliament should be on a huge space station floating around the earth... or failing that, on the moon.


Re: On the Move? (#2)

by alexhilton on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 10:49:17 PM GMT

Move MPs to the commons chamber and bounce the peers to another chamber. maybe the gallery to the south of the lords


Re: On the Move? (#3)

by NorthernMonkey on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 11:17:54 PM GMT

I'm glad the chambers are being renovated - the Commons in particular looks pretty awful. Hopefully, they'll get rid of the sickly green colour of the benches.

Where the politicians go in the mean time doesn't really matter but I bet they'll go to County Hall.


Re: On the Move? (#4)

by repub on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 12:22:46 PM GMT

Could we go the whole hog in terms of party politicking and get Ken Livingstone to ceremonially open the first day in County Hall?

;-)


Re: On the Move? (#5)

by bigpapi on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 01:02:13 PM GMT

After the Commons Chamber was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb in World War II the MPs moved up the corridor to the House of Lords, who in turn decamped across the road to Church House (home of the General Synod of the Church of England).


Re: On the Move? (#6)

by swatantra on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 02:45:29 PM GMT

Great idea! Church House is a circular chamber. Perhaps we'll get a better quality of debate and more consensus politics instead of the argy-bargy-punch-judy stuff we get at present. And it'll be a good introduction to euro-politiking now that we've finally convinced ourselves that we are in Europe and not out of it.


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Re: On the Move? (#8)

by NorthernMonkey on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 04:31:14 PM GMT

I'd rather Parliament started to lose it's connections with the Church of England rather than build on them.

The home of the General Synod is hardly an appropriate place for our national legislature to sit.


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Re: On the Move? (#7)

by Anne Q on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 03:03:59 PM GMT

another rennovation job for Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen?


Re: On the Move? (#9)

by Wildrose on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 07:51:13 PM GMT

How about the whole lot moving lock, stock and barrel to the Dome?


On the Move? | 9 comments (9 topical)