OOFT, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was taking none of Boris Johnson's nonsense at Prime Minister's Questions today.
Not only did he hit out after the Tory chief called the SNP the Scottish Nationalist Party but he wasn't here for the usual Old Etonian waffle.
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Unsurprisingly, the Tory leader faced a number of questions over his ludicrous claim that devolution had been a disaster for Scotland.
The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford asked the Prime Minister if the only way to “protect Scotland's interests, our parliament, and our place in Europe, is for Scotland to become an independent country?”
Johnson didn’t agree. He didn’t agree, and then he didn’t agree some more.
His not agreeing lasted a good two minutes - a lifetime in terms of Prime Minister’s Questions.
Hoyle wasn’t having any of it.
Maybe we should all take a leaf out of Speaker Hoyle's book. Maybe this is the best way of dealing with Tory waffle on independence. Just cut them off and move on to the next thing.
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