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.
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.
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.
*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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Date: 2012-12-05 06:57 pm (UTC)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.(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-05 07:01 pm (UTC)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.(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-05 07:14 pm (UTC)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.(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-05 07:17 pm (UTC)Bercow is more easily intimidated than I am.(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-05 07:21 pm (UTC)*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)