You are occasionally allowed to clap in the chamber of the House of Commons if you are in the club, and especially if the object of your applause is very clubbable indeed. But to do so under any other circumstance merely proves that you are a hooligan.
Likewise, you can do as it is not disputed that Alistair Carmichael did if you are a good clubman. But to do so under any other circumstance merely proves that you are a spiv.
The SNP thought that it was the club. In Scotland, of course, it is. But at Westminster, it simply isn't.
I have some understanding of this. I come from firmly within the network of leading families of a place that turns out to be really rather fine after all.
For example, and there are numerous others, a cousin of my mother's was recently and easily elected to the Legislative Council, which almost immediately elected her to the Executive Council as well, within a couple of months of having retired back there after something like 35 years in London. But of course, darling.
We have the BEM, the MBE and even the OBE coming out of our ears.
But I have lived almost my entire life over here.
For example, and there are numerous others, a cousin of my mother's was recently and easily elected to the Legislative Council, which almost immediately elected her to the Executive Council as well, within a couple of months of having retired back there after something like 35 years in London. But of course, darling.
We have the BEM, the MBE and even the OBE coming out of our ears.
But I have lived almost my entire life over here.
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