An interesting conversation

I was briefly in Parliament yesterday and had just heard from a journalist that there had been a heated clash between Taito Phillip Field and Lockwood Smith at question time.

And then by chance I was passing by the debating chamber when out walked Field and Lockwood in animated conversation, talking all the way along the corridor to the Beehive.

Now I couldn’t tell if it was a heated conversation or not because Lockwood has a near permament smile on his face and Field has a near permament scowl, and this was no different.

It is one of the surreal things abour Parliament is that MPs can go hammer and tongs at each other in the House, and then deal civilly with each other minutes later.