Shared Opinion | 22 August 2009

Rudeness at someone else’s wedding is worse than segregated seating

Is it possible for Jim Fitzpatrick, the Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town, who so recently stormed out of a segregated wedding, to wear underpants? I don’t see that it is. I can’t see how he’d get hold of them.

Imagine going with him to a shop. He and his wife Sheila seem pretty inseparable, so she’d probably have to come too. Look Jim, you’d say. Voluminous stripy boxers, just the sort you like. Shall we get you some? ‘Never!’ he’d have to declare. ‘I shall only buy pants where my wife can also buy pants!’ Principles, eh? So off the three of you dutifully slog, to the lingerie section, to find him something frilly and plus-sized. But he has to try them on, and they won’t let him into the changing rooms, and so off he storms. Pantless.