An unusual visitor has been spotted in the chamber of the House of Commons.
With
less than an hour to go before Prime Minister's Questions started, the
SNP's Kirsty Blackman spotted a robin looking down on the famous benches
and caught it on camera.Journalists also noticed the bird, as officials plotted how to remove it.
A Commons spokeswoman said:
"A robin has been spotted in the chamber and the situation is being deal with. It is not expected to impact on House business."
Well it actually led to a number of MPS behaving like a bunch of adolescent schoolboys as you can see when Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts was trying to ask a question from the BBC report here
Maybe Ms Roberts' should have reminded particularly those on the benches opposite on the Welsh Legend of how the Robin got its redbreast.
It is said that a single Robin gathered a drop of water in its beak and flew all the way to Hell, to drop it on the sinners below in order to ease their suffering no matter how small it was,
Fir its action, the Robin's Breast were singed and thats why he has a red breast.
You could see this as a metaphor that even the smallest kindness can be made .
It could be that yesterday the Robin was trying to emulate its ancestor and mistook the House of Commons for Hell.
Mind you I imagine many of those MPs who have been voting for the cuts in welfare to many of our citizens should remember the above legend, as the day may come when they will be desperate to see a Robin again and its small kindness as they burn in hell.
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