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Attempts to access websites classified as pornography were made almost 700 times a day by computers inside Parliament last year, it has been reported.
Almost 250,000 attempts were made in total, according to data released by the Palace of Westminster’s IT department under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws. Independent online article 27 July 2015, ‘Parliament computers made 250,000 attempts to ‘access pornography’ at Palace of Westminster’
The Houses of Parliament: this was the job that made Pugin’s name. He got it as a result of the old Palace of Westminster burning down in 1834 ... Pugin wanted to build something that would match Westminster Abbey next door. Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain s1e6: Victorian Splendour, BBC 2002
Building began in 1837 and the Barry-Pugin partnership was right for the job. Pugin looked after the detail of the design. ibid.
Houses of Westminster: Woman in £1 million hat makes speech about austerity. David Icke, Agenda 21: The Plan to Kill You, 2016
This is Britain’s most famous building known around the world as a symbol of our nation. Inside its magnificent walls history is made: these are the Houses of Parliament. Inside ... s1e5: the Houses of Parliament, Channel 5 2017
A complex maze of secret rooms and hidden worlds. ibid.
The roof is leaking, the walls are crumbling, now Britain’s most famous building is in danger of collapse. ibid.
The Expenses Scandal also had a darker side and the worst offenders would pay the price. ibid.
The building had been accidentally burnt to the ground; that gave the Victorians the chance to rebuild it, and they really went to town. ibid.
The great parliament held here in Westminster, held by Simon de Montfort in the name of Henry III, the first parliament ... Professor David Carpenter, Magna Carta and the Montford Parliament, lecture February 2015
Magna Carta had laid the foundations for the development of parliament. ibid.
The first official use of the term parliament was in 1237. ibid.
When the rules were announced for a competition to rebuild the Palace of Westminster after the fire of 1854 it was specified that the design must be in the Gothic or Elizabethan style. Monarchy by David Starkey: Survival, Channel 4 2006
Knight says that the Palace of Westminster – home to the British Parliament – is used as a meeting place for at least two Masonic lodges. One of these lodges is called the New Welcome Masonic Lodge, which regularly hosts blood-curdling rituals and ceremonies inside the Palace of Westminster. Members of Parliament from all political parties gather together wearing white gloves, sashes, lambskin aprons and wielding ceremonial daggers, swearing blood-thirsty oaths of allegiance to each other. Chris Everard, Illuminati vol I
I think ... that it is the best club in London. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Mr Tremlow
This is the House of Commons as you’ve never seen it before. With unprecedented access we’ve been filming behind the scenes for a year. Inside the Commons ***** BBC 2015
It’s in danger of collapse. ibid.
The bewildering codes and customs of the Commons. ibid.
Built on the site of William the Conqueror’s first palace, the mother of parliaments is where the laws that affect all our lives are made. Rebuilt in Victorian times as a Gothic fantasy palace, it’s an eight-acre jumble of buildings and courtyards with a hundred staircases, over a thousand rooms, and three miles of passages. ibid.
The Commons’ top official, the clerk of the House, Sir Robert Rogers ... Robert is the legal owner of Big Ben. ibid.
The palace of Westminster often looks one great building site. ibid.
The Palace of Westminster is a maze of tunnels and towers. Inside the Commons II: Upstairs Downstairs
Built nearly a thousand years ago, Westminster Hall was where King Charles I was sentenced to death. ibid.
The building’s cast-iron roof – one of the biggest in the world. Inside the Commons III
A Victorian palace that is becoming increasingly dysfunctional. Inside the Commons IV
For a hundred years the delicate balance of power has existed between our two houses of parliament. Meet the Lords II: Rebel Lords, BBC 2017
Now Labour and Lib-Dems outgun the Tories. ibid.
The sewage ejectors and many other parts of the palace are on their last legs. Meet the Lords III: Brexit and Exit, BBC 2017
Mistrust that may just have its roots in a chapter one decade ago: MPs accused of being on the take when a national newspaper blew the lid on their expenses system, in a country still reeling from a financial crisis. Expenses: The Scandal that Changed Britain, BBC 2019
How much did those events rewrite the relationship between parliamentarians and the public? How much did it redirect the whole course of British politics? ibid.
The job of redaction took place in secret. ibid.
‘From porn films to bath plugs’ … ‘chandeliers, horse manure, swimming pools, housekeepers’ … ‘It’s a classic smear this’ [Mandelson]. ibid.
The moat belonged to Douglas Hogg; the expense was for cleaning it. ibid.
Another kind of second home: a duck house. ibid.
Five Labour MPs and Two Conservative Peers who were eventually jailed. ibid.
This gathering of cunts does not represent the people who elected it. 400 Leave constituencies would be a landslide under voting protocols but the reverse is true.
They voted for a referendum
They voted for Article 50
The main parties had Leaving the EU in their manifestos
They voted out May’s deal three times.
They seem to have made No-deal illegal, thus scuppering any chance of negotiation.
They don’t want an election despite Magic Grandpa calling for one constantly.
They won’t table no confidence as they don’t want an election even though there is now no majority government.
They have used the sainted Jo Cox as some sort of symbol to tar Johnson.
The Speaker is entirely biased against Brexit.
400 or so MPs have lined up with the Establishment, the City, Academia and diverse vested interests to deny the referendum result. They don’t want a deal… they want to stay in the EU.
There were terms for parliaments in days gone by – long, short, addled etc. but this is the Traitorous Parliament. Is a cunt online 28 September 2019
Although Italy became a major source of inspiration throughout the rest of his life, images of Britain continued to dominate Turner’s canvasses. He became a chronicler of contemporary history in 1834 when he produced stunning images of the burning of the Houses of Parliament. Great Artists with Tim Marlow: J M W Turner
The Houses of Parliament are the buildings for which Pugin is best remembered. Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Art of Gothic: Britain’s Midnight Hour 2/3: The City and the Soul
The Houses of Parliament. Home to British politics. But you don’t need to come here to see politics. Politics is everywhere. Everywhere. Ricky Gervais, Live II: Politics, 2004