MPs boozing during the Commons Afghanistan debate?

Glad to hear the Tories aren't getting complacent about winning the next election - or the state of Afghanistan.

It seems I wasn't the only person following the cricket today. Like most people who have to work for a living, I had to follow online updates from sites like Cricinfo. Here's one update, helpfully sent in by a reader:

"Hello from Westminster!" cheers Ed Condon from the Policy Exchange, one of those slightly meaningless think tanks which British politics is filled with. "In the pub with, wait for it.... 10 chiefs of staff and six MPs. Your tax pounds are hard at work!"

I can't imagine such an impeccably Tory think-tank hanging around with anyone but Tory MPs, or their 'chiefs of staff'. Whoever they are.

The post seems to have come in the same over that Kevin Pietersen got out, around 1613 this afternoon. So much for the Tories' outrage about lack of helicopters. This was slap bang in the middle of the House of Commons Afghanistan debate.