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PMQs Causes Accidental B Minor
William G. Pilgrim.
Parliamentary commentators were stunned into silence during Prime Minister's Questions today when the simultaneous jeering of the Conservative back bench produced a loud and inadvertent B-minor chord.
Cameron had been grilling the PM with a series of linked questions on the state of the NHS and after a third weak, question-dodging response, Brown was met with an astoundingly harmonious group heckle.
The melancholy B minor was followed by a stunned silence, minutes in length, in which Conservative MPs looked around at one another with startled looks on their faces. The silence was eventually broken when David Laws (Lib Dem MP for Yeovil) exclaimed:
"Fuck me - that was weird!"
The incident has raised significant procedural issues regarding the limitations of Hansard
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"It really knocked me off guard" Brown later admitted, "because for a split-second I thought someone was playing my favourite song, ['If you had my love' by Jennifer Lopez] over the tannoy, but when I realised that it had a posh accent, I knew it must be the opposition".
Cameron was quick to claim this as an "epoch-defining moment for the Conservative Future
campaign", leading some to suggest that he had a hand in orchestrating the refrain.
Andrew Marr commented that "for a supposed 'freak occurrence,'the idea of the whole parliamentary Conservative party singing together in unison is surprisingly compatible with the new friendly image that the party is pursuing."
However, many backbench Tory traditionalists are openly lamenting their involvement.
"Group scoffing used to be one of my favourite things about being in the Conservative party," commented Clive Blastcorn, Tory MP for Aylesbury, "but it will forever more be tainted by this moment of poncey, pinko, choral coincidence".
Experts have suggested that had Cameron really been behind such a stunt, he would probably have opted for a D chord (B minor's more optimistic relative major).
Popular tunes written in Bminor include 'Hotel California' by the Eagles, 'Man Eater' by Hall and
Oats and the theme tune to ER.
It is rumoured that a similar stunt is being planned in which all 6 Lib Dem MPs will attempt to
produce a D# minor seventh in memory of Menzies Campbell.
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