Poroshenko visits Parliament

There was no Question Period today, given the visit by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Parliament, and in lieu of business in the Chamber, he delivered a speech to a joint session of Parliament. I hadn’t intended to live-blog the speech, but for posterity, here are some of my tweets, for those of you who aren’t following me on the Twitter Machine.

Someone at BBC picked up on this photo, but in crediting me in his tweet, I became subject to a lot of anti-Poroshenko tweets in my feed. Yay Twitter!

A couple of hours later, everyone filed into the Commons for the speech itself.

At this point, they let us take pictures in the Chamber (which is generally verboten, but with MPs taking and tweeting photos, and the Mace not in the Chamber, they eventually relented and let us take them).

(Incidentally, that’s a style citation to Diane Finley, pictured in the front row on the far right).

Afterward, a rally was held on the Hill, which I snapped a quick photo of as I left.