With Tom Potter walking out on this afternoon’s council session, now’s a good time to consider The Top 10 Walkouts In History! I’m your host, Matt Davis.

1.1968. The Chicano studies walkouts in East L.A—in protest at the lack of South American history being taught in this country’s schools.

2.1899. The Chicago Stockyard Strikes. 3,000 men and boys!

3.1980s. AZTEC CAMERA. “Walkout to winter.” ‘Nuff said.

4.2005. UK TV star Preston walks out on NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS… watch how pissed off he gets, first. I don’t care if you’ve never heard of him.

5.2006. O’SULLIVAN! (Ronnie, the snooker player…) (Sorry…I’ll stop quoting English television shows in a minute…) concedes his UK snooker Championship quarter-final at 4-1 down to Stephen Hendry, telling his opponent he had “had enough”. Watch the BBC people absolutely dumbfounded, thinking, “what the fuck are we going to do now…” afterwards.

6.TONI BRAXTON. Un-break my heart…

Undo this hurt you caused When you walked out the door And walked out of my life Un-cry these tears…

7.2007. Paris Hilton walks out of jail! (Classier than Tom Potter, obviously.) “She still obviously, there…has the model walk…”

8.Unknown. Some bloke called Eddy walks out after his mates mess with him.

9.2007. Sharon Osbourne walks out of America’s got Talent.

And that’s nine. Sorry, I thought finding 10 would be easy. But it turns out that usually, WALKING OUT IS JUST LAME…speaking of which:

It’s going to be hard to take Tom Potter seriously on anything in future. He’s already a lame duck, but now, he’s wasting our tax dollars. Forgive me, but don’t we pay for him to at least keep his butt planted firmly on a seat, get red-faced and huff and puff a lot? Furthermore: how long until he releases a back-handed apology? In fact, who cares? How long until we can really, really, really start ripping the piss out of him for this?

I’ve been holding back, so far, for the sake of decorum. See you tomorrow.