While attention in the Commons chamber this week has understandably been fixed on one Andy Burnham, another new MP has been busily trying to claim the spotlight for herself. The SNP’s attention-craving Lara Bird, who won the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry by-election, decided it was a great idea to behave like a petulant child while being sworn in to her new job.
Before taking the oath, as all new MPs do, she announced in a sarcastic tone:
I take this oath only so that I can serve the people of Arbroath and Broughty Ferry. My first allegiance is and always will be the sovereign people of Scotland.
Bird then mockingly took the traditional oath while shaking her head and crossing her fingers, rather than holding a Bible.
The 28-year-old gave up reading International Law and Legal Studies as a PhD student at King’s College London to run for parliament. Her full name is actually Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey and she is, of course, obsessed with Palestine. Unearthed videos of the qualified English barrister on social media appear to show that she has significantly dialled up her Scottish accent since becoming an MP, having previously spoken in a rather posh English tone.
The Commons chamber was already turning into something of a nursery for tantrum-throwing toddlers, so Mr S assumes the new Nat will have no trouble fitting in.
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