[Tealeaf]

Aye. I am afraid, Eric, the noble art of oratory has long since disappeared from mainstream British politics. In its place we have some cut and paste nonsense originally written by some spotted nosed kid in the party central office and posted on websites such as this. Even worse, we get MP's posting on Twitter, offering serious political analysis but is in fact no more than can be read between pages three and four of the Sun newspaper. Still, we do have Prime Ministers Question Time, excerpts of which are now exported and seen throughout the world and which carry the flag of great British comedy alongside Benny hill and Monty Python