Jacket Potatoes
It's a sultry day at Stormont and the perspiring MLAs are obviously in rebellious mode. Last month, Sinn Fein's Barry McElduff asked whether the politicians had to keep their jackets on. Today the SDLP's Pat Ramsey joined the shirt sleeves brigade, raising a point of order with the Speaker. Willie Hay promised to monitor the temperatures, but in the meantime the MLAs are continuing to bake in their jackets.
Despite this, the politicians are appearing to keep their cool, even though the topic under discussion is the vexed matter of domestic rates.
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Ludicrous to get so worked up about it. If it's a hot day people should be able to take their jackets off, it's hardly going to affect the quality of debate. This is actually a serious issue in Japan where there was a major campaign a while back to persuade office workers that they SHOULD take their jackets off in hot weather so the air conditioning could be turned down a bit.