Despatch Box in the Atrium
At the end of the afternoon yesterday, I popped over to the Despatch Box in the Atrium in Portcullis House for a cup of tea. The plan was to get on with essay marking, but as usual various people saw me and we ended up dealing with parliamentary business. I had not even got to the Despatch Box before an MP saw me and came to discuss matters relating to an all-party group. As I was having my tea, a minister came over to pursue an issue I had raised with him, and as I was leaving I bumped into an MP and a peer and spent some time exchanging views on parliamentary tactics.
It was only when I got back to my office that I saw this news item, reporting that earlier in the afternoon a pane of glass in the roof of the Atrium had cracked and the area had had to be secured. I was completely oblivious to the fact that anything had happened and certainly by the time I arrived everyone was acting as normal. Either that or I was so engrossed in what I was doing I completely missed what was happening in the vicinity. It has been known…
“Built to last 200 years, Portcullis House has bomb-proof walls and windows…”
Pity they forgot about the roof.
ladytizzy: Apparently, the wrong type of weather.