Wet Owl

@levisatyrane

If Dionne Warwick isn't writing a bio, neither am I

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Wet Owl@levisatyrane· 29d

I really don't think he's supposed to say stuff like this but no one gives a fuck anymore

Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, introduces this session as the final PMQs of this parliamentary session, and Keir Starmer’s final PMQs. He thanks Starmer for his leadership, particularly in regard to “his steadfast support for Ukraine”. And he says he hopes the PM brings home a World Cup victory.

The Speaker, impartiality and procedural reform
The political impartiality of the Speaker is a key feature of the office, while the role's authority has developed over time alongside other procedural reforms.

Impartiality
The political impartiality of the Speaker is one of the office's most important features – and most emulated or aspired to outside the UK. Once elected, the Speaker severs all ties with his or her former party and is in all aspects of the job a completely non-partisan figure.

Like its independence from the King, this chief attribute of the office was attained gradually – and unevenly – over the last three centuries. The rise of party democracy brought in train practices of majoritarian government in the Commons.

The implications for the Speakership was that it became accepted on all sides of the House that the governing party would effectively chose the Speaker from amongst its ranks, and could expect his support. Arthur Onslow, Speaker from 1728 to 1761, is credited with putting in place the foundations of the non-partisan Speaker model.

And from about the middle of the 19th century, the principle of non-partisanship became firmly established though the tenures of a succession of Speakers who were admired and trusted on all sides of the House, including Charles Shaw-Lefevre (1839-57) and John Denison (1857-72).

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 10

Turns out this guy is a footballer and not a tennis player but I still maintain he does not look like a footballer and something about his face is extremely tennis coded

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 9

Do Daily Mail readers not get a bit of "we've always been at war with Oceania" from this kind of thing or do they really just not notice?

Count Binface joining the Clacton by-election is "deadly serious", the Daily Mail reports, with Farage describing the fight as a "real election".

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 9

I'd never actually seen the music video for Total Eclipse of the Heart before so I had no idea the song was about the Welsh branch of the X-Men

Stills from Total Eclipse of the Heart music video

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 9

What it feels like to be a 14 year old boy and you and your mate are hanging out with a girl the same age

Zendaya poses with two kids from the Make a Wish Foundation

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 7

This is what the internet is for www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/c...

My Wifes Review of Irn Bru
She is Malaysian and tried it for the first time and her review was “I don’t hate it but somehow it makes me sad and angry at the same time, I think I get how it feels to be Scottish”.

I had to share this poetry.

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 6

can't even lurk in a hedge anymore

Woman terrified someone will 'jump out at her' from massive hedge as she makes plea to council
The Clydebank pensioner says she fears for her safety as the bush is so high people could "lurk behind" it.

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jul 3

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 24

The boys name 'Athelstan' is about to make a big comeback in the UK

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 19

Sorry my brain is working overtime

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 17

Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) in New Jack City (1991)

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 16

Just now realising this lass from MCU Spider-Man is Betty Brant and they even did the Betty/Ned Leeds romance in the second film without me noticing.

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 15

Happy Pride Month!

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 12

"What's the point of feeding children" asks a UK admiral, "if the Russians could just invade and shoot them". My brother in Christ, if we can't feed all our kids, I'll take my chances in neo-Soviet Britain.

Wet Owl@levisatyrane· Jun 11

Look out kid You’re gonna get hit But users, cheaters Six-time losers Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool Lookin’ for a new fool Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters