Friday, October 17, 2008
The Union
I went to a debate at the Oxford Union tonight. The Union is an exorbitantly expensive student debating club (£99 for a year or ~£170 for life) with a bunch of future politicians trying to act like MPs. Luckily, in an attempt to entice new members, the Union is free for the first two weeks. The speeches were quite amusing, and the big shots were really quite good. The debate tonight was (unsurprisingly) over whether or not there should be confidence in her Majesty's government. Five MPs were present to debate, making the experience the closest to a House of Parliament debate as I am likely to come.
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You know when I was in London we got tickets to see question time with the Prime Minister. You have to request them from the US embassy and there's never a guarantee you'll get in, but the odds are good. That's only on Wednesdays at some set hour, though. You can go pretty much any time you're in London and see the normal MPs debating something boring. When we went it was golden--Boris Johnson's last day as MP before assuming duties as mayor.
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