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Not a bad month.

Now if only D'Souza would stop nagging me to turn up, everything would be perfect.

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Date: 2012-12-05 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
You do seem to be operating on a less Heseltinian definition of 'necessity' these days.

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Date: 2012-12-05 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
I made my maiden speech to the House fewer than four days after being introduced. Heseltine took eight years. I hardly think any comparison can fairly be drawn between the two.

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Date: 2012-12-05 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
You had little choice in the matter, since you'd joined the Cabinet. You've been a more elusive presence of late, and I don't mean the time you spent in that cell.

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Date: 2012-12-05 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
The House was in recess!

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Date: 2012-12-05 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
Not for all of it. But it would be very unfair to hold it against you, as I'm sure you would rather have been in the Chamber than where you were.

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Date: 2012-12-05 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
But of course, that is always the case, whether I happen to be in the... in that place or otherwise. It is simply that events occasionally lead me astray.

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Date: 2012-12-05 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
Oh, I have every confidence in your ability to overcome mere events, Peter. Even lycanthropy couldn't put you off your stride for long- I doubt a lucrative consulting contract could keep you away if you really wanted to be with us.

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Date: 2012-12-05 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
I nearly died you stupid woman.

Well... one does one's best, but it is impossible to foresee all potential events which might hinder such a worthy goal. Unknown unknowns, if you will.

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Date: 2012-12-05 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
Even if you had you would probably have risen from the grave.

Or known knowns, in the case of one's consultancy business. But I do appreciate your stopping by the Chamber. I know how valuable your time is these days.

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Date: 2012-12-05 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
There's no need for that sort of speciesism!

Thank you.

In the same vein, whilst the thought is appreciated, it really is not necessary for you to text me the business of the day. Every day. Occasionally several times. I am sure I can manage to read the order paper myself.

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Date: 2012-12-05 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
It's nothing to do with the lycanthropy, just with your personality.

But I know how very busy you are. Anything I can do to make it easier for you to attend... Besides, it's technically Davinder from my press office texting you, not me.

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Date: 2012-12-05 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
I'm going to get you a leaflet.

Receiving texts hardly expediates the fulfilment of my numerous other duties. Then it'll be Davinda getting a rather nasty hex down the line, next time I'm woken up ridiculously early by one of those bloody messages.

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Date: 2012-12-05 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
But it does remind you about this one. I understand how our little debates can slip to the back of your mind, with so many other more glittering engagements to divert your attention.

Of course, if you were to attend more regularly, I wouldn't have to worry so much that you had forgotten about us... Just try it, Mandelson. I still have the mace.

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Date: 2012-12-05 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*Peter folds his arms and looks cross.*

I will do my utmost to keep House business 'top of mind', will that do? Feel free to ask Bercow how his attempts fared in that general direction.

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Date: 2012-12-05 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
We'll see. Continue to grace us with your presence as regularly as you have been in the past month or so, and I think we might have a deal. Bercow is more easily intimidated than I am.

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Date: 2012-12-05 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
That's hardly fair - the House goes into recess in two weeks.

*He can't believe he's whining, now, this is intolerable. He gets out his phone and very pointedly sets a certain number to 'blocked'.*

Anyway, I must be off...

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Date: 2012-12-05 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dasouzzle.livejournal.com
*Frances chuckles as she watches him slink away. Really, he's not so bad if you just stand firm beneath the battering of the inevitable waves of spin and excuse-making.*
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