Lord King of Bridgewater, making a rather self-congratulatory speech about the passing of the wartime generation in the Lords on Thursday, turned and gestured to his colleague Baroness Trumpington to illustrate his point about the extreme age of WW2 veterans.
Baroness Trumpington, an 89-year-old Conservative life peer who served in naval intelligence at Bletchley Park during the second world war, showed him just what she thought of such a patronising reference with a simple hand gesture.
Watch her in action:
What a heroine! No one will dare patronise her again, and quite right too. She's far more the embodiment of the wartime spirit than Lord King with his waffle.
Many thanks to my excellent colleague Grant Tucker for the tip-off
Comments
Lord Blagger / November 14 2011 4:49pm
Time for the glue factory.
P.Langford / November 14 2011 5:00pm
Surely it was a reference to Churchill's victory gesture? :-p
Tom / November 14 2011 5:21pm
She was indicating she was one of two.
Jeremy Poynton / November 14 2011 5:24pm
My headmaster's wife way back in the 60s, and a formidable battleaxe back then. bless her. Lord Blagger - up yours. She's a fine woman who has had an illustrious career in the Lords for many many years.
i4cy / November 15 2011 12:16am
She probably remembers Lord King laying off 17,000 staff prior to the de-nationalisation of British Airways in 1987, and afterwards for his scandalous illegal “dirty tricks” campaign against Virgin Atlantic.