The five minutes prior to the Act of Signing is variously known as "the General Haranguing" and "Confessions", depending on which side of the table you are sitting.
After making your confessions, you humbly recognise your impotence in the face of the State, and in an Act of Prostration sign your destinies into the hands of the Unreachable Powers that will assure you a 2 weeks reprieve.
Now let me wonder, whether 93 Tory rebels have already had their eye on the custard that mounts the pudding - or is it the gravy train - when, on quitting the House of Commons, they may ascend to the House of Lords.
Bah Humbug, I say!
