DisMember — Classic Parliament Attlee greets the recognition of Franco with a legal demolition and a phrase that outlived the debate — half truths are worse than lies — five weeks before Madrid fell and five months before the logic reached Poland. dismember.co.uk/classic/clem...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Amery, from Chamberlain's own city and tribe, reaches for Cromwell's words to the Long Parliament — in the name of God, go — and within three days the government of Britain, and the direction of the war, had changed. dismember.co.uk/classic/leo-...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Thatcher's thunderous "No. No. No." thrilled her party, prophesied thirty years of European agony, and lit the fuse that blew up her own premiership within the month. dismember.co.uk/classic/marg...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Macaulay informs the House that a Jew may finance the sovereigns of Europe but not sit among the members for boroughs he could buy outright — and that a Christianity needing intolerance for support is being insulted by its defenders. dismember.co.uk/classic/thom...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Ramsay MacDonald defends cutting the dole to the party that has just expelled him for it — 'I have known you of old' — ten days before the markets took sterling off gold and made the sacrifice moot. dismember.co.uk/classic/rams...

DisMember - Classic Parliament Churchill, cited as a witness against himself, testifies happily for his 1911 vintage and leaves the House the definition it never returned: democracy as the worst form of government except all the others. dismember.co.uk/classic/wins...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Benn welcomes the no-lame-ducks Government to the subsidy business with £42 million for Rolls-Royce 'subject to a further check on the figures' — the reckoning arrived eleven weeks later, in the form of the company's bankruptcy. dismember.co.uk/classic/tony...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Ken Clarke ranks the Brown bubble just below the South Sea, the corruption absent, the credulity fully supplied and files the 2010 Budget as the last sad epitaph to a history of failure. dismember.co.uk/classic/kenn...

DisMember — On This Day, 27 July 2010 Told there was no bottomless bucket of cash for green energy, Miliband has simply acquired the largest bucket of money on the planet. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — On This Day, 26 July 2024 The North Sea oil industry has decided to prematurely phase itself out with the aid of gravity and a slippery winch. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — On This Day, 25 July 2019 Westminster’s capacity to fawn over a new leader pointing vaguely towards Manchester is truly inexhaustible. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Charles Kennedy, 23 years old, quotes the Government's own document back at it: closing the hospitals without building the alternative is not the answer, then watches it do precisely that in the name of Victorian values. dismember.co.uk/classic/char...

DisMember — On This Day, 24 July 2019 Theatrical reviews and regional grandstanding won Burnham the crown. The prisons themselves are entirely incidental. And echo from the past about what is happening right now on the other side. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — On This Day, 23 July 2024 The Tory high command have resorted to the political equivalent of calling the council to complain about Nigel Farage's garden fence. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Wilson greets the Government's call for national sacrifice with a couplet — Britain reaching the top via capital gains and the betting shop — a week before the pay pause proved his point on the nurses. dismember.co.uk/classic/haro...

DisMember — On This Day, 22 July 2025 The SNP's supposed vice of absenteeism has simply been franchised out to the new administration. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Classic Parliament Thatcher's thunderous "No. No. No." thrilled her party, prophesied thirty years of European agony, and lit the fuse that blew up her own premiership within the month. dismember.co.uk/classic/marg...

DisMember — On This Day, 21 July 2021 Starmer demanded rigorous clarity; Burnham is launching his government on the intellectual bandwidth of an inspirational fridge magnet. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Classic Echo, Harold Wilson 23 Nov 1964 As Burnham opens the books here's his forebear on that subject "Right hon Gentlemen opposite could read too of course. 'They wrote them.' The Tory books flatter their authors about as much as a fairground mirror." dismember.co.uk/burnham-2026...

DisMember - On This Day, 20 Jul 2010 "One hopes the removal men have simply installed a revolving door & left the engine running" Philip Davies's 2010 definition of performative politics perfectly captures Badenoch's attack on Burnham's detail-light ascent to No 10 dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — On This Day, 19 July 2017 Even Jo Johnson might marvel at the sheer, breathtaking velocity with which Burnham has turned his predecessor’s sacred cows into drive-thru burgers. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

Classic DisMember Jo Cox's maiden speech from Jun 2015. A speech about community Yorkshire and Britain's place in Europe that acquired a profoundly different meaning after her assassination a year later. One of the defining parliamentary speeches of the last decade. dismember.co.uk/classic/jo-c...

DisMember — On This Day, 18 July 2018 It was a quaint era when financial opacity in the Brexit ecosystem was still considered a genuine scandal rather than a basic entry requirement. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Classic Parliament The greatest defeat in British military memory turned, at the despatch box, into the moment a nation resolved never to surrender. dismember.co.uk/classic/wins...

DisMember — On This Day, 17 July 2017 Starmer plays the lame duck, while Burnham adjusts the crown. One wonders if Darren Jones has simply accepted his role as a flying monkey in Burnham’s new Oz. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

Classic DisMember The speech that brought down Margaret Thatcher. Geoffrey Howe finally stopped being the Conservative Party's "dead sheep" and delivered one of the most devastating resignation speeches in parliamentary history. 🏏🐑🔥 dismember.co.uk/classic/geoffrey-howe-1990-11-13a

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DisMember — On This Day, 16 July 2013 While Starmer choked out a valedictory PMQs, Burnham orchestrated a bloodless coup. Hunt’s old punching bag hasn’t just dodged the ropes; he’s bought the gym. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...

DisMember — Insult of the Day (2022) Boris Johnson unleashed this utterly bizarre, incredibly vivid insult during his final days at the despatch box. "He is one of those pointless plastic bollards you find around a deserted roadworks on a motorway." dismember.co.uk/contribution...

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"The PM, equating the Opposition leader to a roadside bollard, claimed his puppet master was a union baron, not just his own lack of policy." — 20th July 2022

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DisMember — On This Day, 15 July 2015 No amount of grand electoral commissions can easily cure the public's deep-seated suspicion that, much like an ITV phone-in, the house always wins. dismember.co.uk/on-this-day/...