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Watching the debate and particularly enjoying Ken Clarke's deep contempt for Rees-Mogg.
I think Grieve has even more contempt for Rees-Mogg than Clarke does. Understandably so given JRM's appallingly condescending and pompous manner.
JRM now having a go a Bercow. Bercow looking like he might deck him.
Of course Bercow is also incredibly pompous. This whole thing makes the Oxford Union look down to earth and unpretentious.
JRM "As the good boy scouts we are we will always be prepared". Oh please do fuck the fuck off. How can you live your whole life as this absurd cosplay Wodehouse aristocrat?
If I watch much more of this I'm going to go full Bolshevik
It's a shame that SNP leader Ian Blackford is literally the most boring man in history. He's making constitutional drama sound like a particularly dreary thought for the day.
Ken Clarke now beautifully ripping the piss out of Rees-Mogg and the Government's nonsense lies about prorogation. "For the first time ever the leader of the house was slightly annoying me...."
"I will vote for this motion will more passion than I usually go through the division. It is extremely important". Ken's losing the whip. I'm sure he'll be devastated.
Now Bill Cash is wittering on, looking, as ever, like a 3D jigsaw of Roger Moore assembled by a small child.
Excellent speech from Nick Boles full of indignation and seething anger. Finishes by saying to his former Tory colleagues "Your country needs you. Come and join me on there benches. Together let's build a new force in politics and a true home for those who believe in one nation"
Bercow lets out a huge sigh before calling Liam Fox. Who should of course be referred to by his full title "disgraced former minister Liam Fox".
It remains extremely hard for me to accept that he once coupled with Natalie Imbruglia.
I'm liking now many people did not know this. He's actually thanked in Imbruglia's album "left of the middle" (which he most definitely is not).
Rees-Mogg is, for some reason, lying down on the front bench in a position that can only be described as "Kate Winslet asking Leo to paint her like one of his French girls".
"Paint me like one of your French girls" 
I'm so distracted by Tommy Sheppard's frankly astonishing nose that I haven't heard anything he just said.
"Oh great it's Bernard Jenkin" said literally no one ever.
Famously all the Bernards in Richard Curtis films and sitcoms are based on Bernard Jenkin because he nicked Curtis's girlfriend. And is an enormous prat.
Antoinette Sandbach - Parliament's very own Ser Brienne of Tarth - intervening to slap down Jenkin.
Sandbach is now speaking. She really is staggeringly tall. Almost 2 metres. She could swat aside Rees-Mogg like Brienne slaughtering an extra. She's voting against the Govt by the way.
The DUP member for Vauxhall Kate Hoey now up. Unsurprisingly voting with the Government given she makes Mark Francois look like a wet leftie.
Robert Courts, who replaced David Cameron it Witney, is now speaking against the motion. I will simply say that he makes his predecessor look like an intellectual titan.
Caroline Lucas, who increasingly looks and dresses like a member of the Vulcan council, is telling Rees-Mogg to get up. He does not get up.
I think he's gone to sleep. Waiting to see if he starts murmuring arousedly in schoolboy Latin.
A series of identikit Tories reading out the same series of talking points. Interspersed with Tom Brake being angry and looking increasingly like he's trying to disappear into a 2D world.
John Baron, who's come dressed as the man from Del Monte, is so dull that everyone is just talking over him. Like a supply teacher written by Arthur Miller.
It's Chris Philp! Less an MP. More an aggressive estate agent after a few drinks.
Bercow found Philp so repellent he cur him off. Thank god that's over. Now they're voting.
Government loses. Johnson the first PM to lose his first Commons vote since Roseberry in 1894.
Of course Rees-Mogg was a mere teenager back then.
A senior member of the House of Lords assures me they will be able to get the bill through. So if Labour hold the line tomorrow on the election motion it looks like the Government are properly snookered.
They may have to ask for an extension and then have an election to win a majority for their position but that will strengthen the Brexit Party.
