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Dec. 11th, 2012 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
therealpm*Peter skims through Hansard. He's been far too busy plotting revenge attending to House of Lords business to watch the debates today, but with the statement on the equal marriage consultation and Treasury questions, it seems reasonable to invest a little time digging out the choicer quotes. Especially if he's expected to turn up to the Lords for those sort of things.
Most of the debate is pretty predictable, but towards the end Bercow takes a point of order. Most odd; there's still a statement to go.
As he reads through the exchange, the corners of his mouth begin to turn up, until by the end he's sporting a full blown smirk. It's not just that Osborne was made to sit there and be reprimanded for his disregard of parliamentary procedure, but that it's done in such a way as to make Bercow's dislike for the man painfully obvious. Peter is reminded of nothing so much as Jack's tendency to growl, and even nip, when he spots a long-lens camera. A sort of dogged, over-protective loyalty that's as endearing as it is amusing (he buries the pang of resentment he still feels every time he sees someone mocking his George. It's a tenacious habit but one he is determined to break). He gets out his phone.
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John,
interesting performance with Osborne yesterday. I'm touched.
-Peter
Most of the debate is pretty predictable, but towards the end Bercow takes a point of order. Most odd; there's still a statement to go.
As he reads through the exchange, the corners of his mouth begin to turn up, until by the end he's sporting a full blown smirk. It's not just that Osborne was made to sit there and be reprimanded for his disregard of parliamentary procedure, but that it's done in such a way as to make Bercow's dislike for the man painfully obvious. Peter is reminded of nothing so much as Jack's tendency to growl, and even nip, when he spots a long-lens camera. A sort of dogged, over-protective loyalty that's as endearing as it is amusing (he buries the pang of resentment he still feels every time he sees someone mocking his George. It's a tenacious habit but one he is determined to break). He gets out his phone.
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John,
interesting performance with Osborne yesterday. I'm touched.
-Peter
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Date: 2012-12-12 09:53 am (UTC)Text from 078## ######
Peter,
Your reading comprehension must be failing you. The incident with Osborne was about proper parliamentary conduct and thus was nothing to do with you whatsoever.
-John
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:04 am (UTC)John,
of course. I'm not sure which part of your decision to keep Osborne late, the subsequent decision to allow a point of order before a statement had been given, the very public, ten minute dressing down you gave Osborne or the way you snapped your pencil when I received a text from the aforementioned Chancellor on Saturday led me to believe that there was any ulterior motive behind your actions. I offer the most abject apology.
-Peter
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:05 am (UTC)Peter,
Apology accepted.
-John
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:10 am (UTC)Text from 07### ######
John,
I may be meeting with the man himself later. Is there any further advice you would like me to pass along?
-Peter
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:25 am (UTC)*Not that John has any right to tell Peter what to do, of course. Still, John also knows from Peter's past experiences that he's very unlikely to be able to spot when personal relationships go sour and is far more forgiving than he should be on these issues.*
*Part of John wants to rush through the fireplace and tell Peter not to do it, that Osborne's a manipulative, arrogant, out of touch, selfish, conceited egotist who'll just end up hurting Peter again the next time the relationship is too inconvenient for him. The sad part is, John knows that Peter - ever the strategist - will probably have gone through all the different scenarios and that John will not be able to tell Peter anything the other man hasn't already contemplated.*
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Peter,
Make sure he's back in time for PMQs.
-John
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:26 am (UTC)John,
I'll try, but I'm not sure we'll be finished by then.
-Peter
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:29 am (UTC)Text from 078## ######
Peter,
Thank you.
-John
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Date: 2012-12-12 10:58 am (UTC)Text from 07### ######
John,
put the biscuits away.
Are the children off school yet? I believe Oliver wanted some assistance with his runes and Jemima has bargained for another brewing session.
-Peter
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Date: 2012-12-12 11:00 am (UTC)...how the hell did...
*He eats the biscuit anyway as he replies.*
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Peter,
Not yet. Term is late this year. They do finish on Friday, though.
-John
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Date: 2012-12-12 11:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 11:25 am (UTC)*He marches through the fireplace to Peter's living room.*
Take that blasted hex off my confectionery!
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Date: 2012-12-12 11:27 am (UTC)Tea?
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Date: 2012-12-12 11:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 11:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 11:37 am (UTC)Fine. Tea.
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Date: 2012-12-12 11:57 am (UTC)Kettle's next to the sink, as always. There should be clean mugs on the tree.
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Date: 2012-12-12 12:06 pm (UTC)*John fetches the tea, grumbling to himself all the while.*
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Date: 2012-12-12 12:55 pm (UTC)Change of plan. I have another visitor in half an hour or so.
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:00 pm (UTC)Well whoever it is I'll be sure to make a third cup when they arrive.
How many biscuits did you say I could have?
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 01:09 pm (UTC)Where are the biscuits?
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:16 pm (UTC)*He gestures to a box on the coffee table. It is mercifully free of skulls and appears to have been bought from M&S.*
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:19 pm (UTC)*He takes a small one so as not to appear rude then nudges the tin over to Peter.*
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-12 02:08 pm (UTC)Freddie's flying is coming on well.