United Kingdom - Ireland

Mar. 02 Showing The New Member Around Parliament: At The Bar Of The House: Fab Hornsby-Smith explains the significance of the bar to Ernest Partridge, the new boy'. Beyond the bar, where they are standing, is technically out of the Chambe hen on this side of it, no member can be said to be present for voting purposes. Through it, no one but a member may pass. A policeman stands by the door. Learns About The House To Which He Has Been Elected: with the first Session of the new Parliament so curtailed, many of the new members had hardly any time to find their way about and learn of the many customs and rules of the vast Royal Palace by the Thames which is such a law unto itself. In recent weeks, during the Recess, some of them like Ernest Partridge (Tory for S.Bottersea) have been finding their way about with the aid of knowledgable guides like junior Min. Put Hornsby-Smith. She showed him round and told of the 8 centuries before which have created so much tradition and strange custom, and that the House, while friendly to newcomeers, expects them quickly to learn about its ways and means. Ernest Partridge soon learns that he is not just one of 625 people's representatives, but in addition to the Peers there are also some 350 craftsmen, maintenance staff, police, messengers, clerks etc who run the place which covers 9 acres, with total floorspace of 30 acres, 10 times as large as Wembley. There are 11, 000 rooms, 30 lifts, 50 staircases and 3 miles of corridors. He meets the dignified badge messengers and doorkeepers with their snuffboxes and remarkable memories for faces, the cleaners, post-office workers, cafeteria servants and the Hansard men. He also learns that he must bow on entering and leaving the Chamber, see the Speaker's Chair reserves his seat on the Back Benches with a card, and tries on the top hat with which he must attract the Speakers Chair reserves his seat on the Back Benches with a card, and tries on the top hat with which he must attract the Speakers attention if he wants to raise a point of order. He finds the blue and red Party notepaper in the writing room and a mass of other essential information to the new boy at the House

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