Regretting spending my lunch break listening in to PMQs. Surely the point of this particular pantomime is to get the Prime Minister to answer questions. When this is attempted, the responses usually take the form of, “You mentioned the NHS? Well, here’s a barrage of statistics about how great the NHS is under my mighty rule!”
Today? Today this pretence of answering questions was utterly abandoned. Brown’s responses to Cameron were pure attack – ranting about Tory policies and plans, rebuking Cameron with the PMQ’s equivalent of “Oh yeah? Well YOU SMELL.”
Controversial, I know, but shouldn’t the speaker have the authority to slap Brown a bit for this? Isn’t that his job?
Philip Walker said...
6 Jan 10 at 2:12 pm
Brown is very confused about something. Either he thinks that Prime Minister’s Questions means he gets to ask the questions, or else he thinks that Cameron is the Prime Minister.
Gregory Carlin said...
6 Jan 10 at 6:30 pm
I was talking about this ( today) with like somebody that signs off on ministerial PQs – he recokoned generally, it was down to badly worded questions – mostly. The PMQT a different matter maybe.
JohnRS said...
6 Jan 10 at 6:47 pm
With (effectively) another Labour MP as Speaker, what do you expect? Bercow isnt interested in the Conservatives, he’ll be deposed by them after the General Election if he isnt thrown out by his constituents. His main concern now is getting his “party girl” slapper of a wife into public office so he can keep sponging off the taxpayers.
angela said...
7 Jan 10 at 5:27 pm
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/what-they-said/
After the coup that never way, Labour Ministers, after an insultingly long wait, have lined up to endorse Gordon’s leadership. Here are more examples of what they SAID (hahaha) and what they really meant. With friends like these…….
Sarah Arrow said...
10 Jan 10 at 11:46 am
I can’t wait for GB to leave office, the entire term of his and Blairs Government have undermined the UK as a whole, we are financially and morally bankrupt and all they seem to do on PMQs is act like kids in the playground!
@ JohnRS I agree totally, the speaker isn’t interested in his own job, but pimping his wife out to sustain their lifestyle funded by the taxpayers.
I sound really angry, for my first comment on your blog. For that I apologise, the whole mess just sends me into a rant