Some Women too feeble for PMQs according to John Bercow

[anonymous-user]

10 Pence Short said:

It comes across as a very childish episode every week that the majority of the politicians treat less than seriously.

I'd tighten up the behaviour code to remove the yahooing and put the questions to a random selection to reduce and/or prevent the pathetic grandstanding questions.

Yup, I fail to see how shouting unintelligible nonsense like a pissed-up tramp on a park bench serves to hold anybody to account.

[Rotaree]

Symbolica said:

10 Pence Short said:

It comes across as a very childish episode every week that the majority of the politicians treat less than seriously.

I'd tighten up the behaviour code to remove the yahooing and put the questions to a random selection to reduce and/or prevent the pathetic grandstanding questions.

Yup, I fail to see how shouting unintelligible nonsense like a pissed-up tramp on a park bench serves to hold anybody to account.

Hear, hear!

[turbobloke]

Rotaree said:

Symbolica said:

10 Pence Short said:

It comes across as a very childish episode every week that the majority of the politicians treat less than seriously.

I'd tighten up the behaviour code to remove the yahooing and put the questions to a random selection to reduce and/or prevent the pathetic grandstanding questions.

Yup, I fail to see how shouting unintelligible nonsense like a pissed-up tramp on a park bench serves to hold anybody to account.

Hear, hear!

Booooooo!

Do we get whipped next?

[anonymous-user]

He has a point, as did the Labour MP on BBC TV this morning, which was a first.
You would never get away with that behavior in the workplace, so why should the lawmakers of the land be allowed to get away with it in their workplace? Apart from being an embarrassment it verges upon bullying.

[otolith]

If they had any sense they would tone it down to the level of a school governors meeting. Then it would be dull enough that nobody would watch, and they could all get back to quietly fiddling their expenses and their aides.

[Starfighter]

Bercow could take charge and get this shower under control if he wanted. I suspect that he just is not up to the pressure from both front benches if he "named" a couple of the worst offenders.

It's like football where the players don't respect the ref. It needs to be more rugby.

[NoNeed]

10 Pence Short said:

It comes across as a very childish episode every week that the majority of the politicians treat less than seriously.

I'd tighten up the behaviour code to remove the yahooing and put the questions to a random selection to reduce and/or prevent the pathetic grandstanding questions.

I would go a lot further and legislate that the session doesn't finish until a satisfactory answer is received.




It is playground bullying most of the time, you only have to watch Ed Balls to see that. I don't know of any other workplace that would allow a person standing up to be on the receiving end of barracking and abuse just for having a different point of view.

[Ozzie Osmond]

NoNeed said:

I don't know of any other workplace that would allow a person standing up to be on the receiving end of barracking and abuse just for having a different point of view.

Welcome to PH.

[NoNeed]

Ozzie Osmond said:

NoNeed said:

I don't know of any other workplace that would allow a person standing up to be on the receiving end of barracking and abuse just for having a different point of view.

Welcome to PH.

had a chuckle at that. but this is a social environment where it is mostly friendly banter