An English gentleman loses his marbles

It is not often that ordinary members of the public interrupt the proceedings of Prime Ministers' Questions.

Unfortunately, for one man hurriedly bundled out of the public gallery, yesterday was not that day.

Just hours after MPs debated giving the masses more say over the chamber, by allowing them to 'recall' badly behaved MPs, one of that much-praised group - constituents - decided to take matters into his own hands, rather, er, literally. (We'll get to that).

The MPs, however, heard not a word. It was not just that they were studiously trying to ignore him, although there was a bit of that to be fair. It was that, alas for the protester, it would have been extraordinary if they had heard him through the bulletproof glass, introduced after 9/11.

All that was registered was a large thud as the man lifted up his hands and his marbles (again, bear with me, literally) hit the screen.

Dressed in a large green coat he had been motivated to throw them, according to eye witnesses, after he heard that the Labour shadow business minister Chuka Umunna had failed to pronounce the English town of Worcester correctly.

The London MP had apparently made it sound more like Wichita.

It was all too much for this particular ordinary voter.

Within seconds he was being taken out of the gallery by two doorkeepers.

Cynics might have asked if he had not also been a little put out by the sheer number of Tory MPs who felt inspired, separately, you understand, and not under pressure from the party whips, to ask Mr Cameron about apprenticeships.

One question, by former culture secretary Maria Miller was judged so sycophantic by Labour MPs that one quipped to the Tory leader: "You should bring her back".

Or perhaps the protester was moved over the state of the English NHS, in comparison to that in Wales which Ed Miliband and David Cameron had battled over.

Observers might question if after another half a year of this, that protester might not be the only one to have lost his marbles.