PMQ

I have had a look since all the remarks. Well he doesn't look like DC that's for sure. Good oh!

I do wish people would stop going on about clothes. It sounds like some people would like us all to go about in Chairman Mao suits, all looking the same. Individuality is good. I hope JC goes on wearing what he is comfortable in.

Why should it be wrong/unconstitutional/other uncomplimentary things to ask questions posed by the public at PMQs but perfectly acceptable to ask a planted question so that the PM can stroke his own party, a particular person, football team, corporation, sycophant etc?

PMQs have changed considerably over the past decades as, of course, has the nature of the Commons. I have heard a rumour that ladies are allowed to become MPs nowadays.

Well, all the papers expected him to change straight away, Ana, and got upset when he didn't. He's even been called a traitor by some already.

Voters have told him they disliked PMQs as it was. Voters have raised issues and he has asked questions. Where's the problem?
POGS, did you seriously prefer the rabble and the yelling and the braying? Did you subside happily once you knew who the "winner" was?

Did you see Angela Eagle mouthing 'not me' when he read out the question from 'Angela'?


She was probably just responding to puerile comments from the Government Front Bench
They can all act like a bunch of school boys children can't they, of whatever flavour they are.

Perhaps he will get more confidence and ask his own questions in a week or so when he settles into the job.

'Still listening'? I should hope so, he's hardly been in the job for five minutes - did you expect him to stop listening just because he's now the Labour leader?

I watched it with my grandson. He asked lots of intelligent questions.
I wouldn't have watched it with him in its previous form.
He actually told his mother he had watched it when she came to pick him up.

If you want youngsters to take notice of politics, it should stay like this.

I think all the questions asked were very pertinent to his leadership campaign. He is showing that he is still listening to the people who voted him in.

Give him time pogs I can remember the Tory front bench and how awful they were initially coming over as overgrown schoolboys playing at politics.

No winner, no loser at PMQ's

No questions asked that related to the defence of the realm, immigration/asylum mayhem/EU which are questions one would have thought the Opposition Benches may have asked.

I think the fact Corbyn asked questions of a more low key level and did not engage with Cameron on a personal level but asked questions from members of the public did not work for me

.PMQ'S is the opportunity for the Opposition Leader to rally his party, ask difficult questions of the PM, I saw no spark, no policy thinking, no sign of Corbyn wanting to make his stamp nor show what HE thinks. I do know what Steve and Angela think however.

I agree with those who will like the fact Corbyn wanted a different , inclusive style of PMQ'S he achieved his objective. However it gave Cameron the chance to answer with his policies, never looked flustered and certainly not challenged.

lucky I can't imagine why anyone would carry on watching parliament or any other programme for that matter if they were heartily sick of it.

As a teetotaller perhaps JC can do his bit to influence the drinking culture in Westminster for the better, in his party and beyond. That would be good. I mean - as someone wrote in the wake of Charles Kennedy's death - what employer encourages drinking on the job?

People raise problems with their MPs and they in their turn raise them in parliament - wasn't that exactly what JC did? If it breaks the formulaic pattern of insults then that can only be good. Many people who watch parliament are heartily sick of it. We are paying these guys to behave like that - in a way that would be frowned on in a classroom, and the teacher hauled over the coals for being unable to discipline the class.

They could ask me I suppose don't see the point though. My question was just that. All seems a bit odd, and sort of tabloid.

whitewave I dunno is the short answer. Ask the BBC

grannyknot that was for

Why? What are they going to achieve?

Oh yes, that'll be it...

(except that she wasn't looking at the front bench at the time.)

She was probably just responding to puerile comments from the Government Front Bench.

Did you see Angela Eagle mouthing 'not me' when he read out the question from 'Angela'?

Don't joke! This is being put about on Twitter by the BBC:
Was your question read out at PMQs by Jeremy Corbyn? Calling Marie, Steven, Paul, Claire, Gail & Angela.. Email: [email protected]

DC may on the other hand not care where the questions come from, and continue to treat some questions with his sneering attitude, bit of a risk I would have thought!

Because if DC thinks that the voter is directly involved with the questions being asked he will have to treat the questions with more respect or be in danger of loosing votes.

See my previous question.

That is the theory jing and JC has no intention of changing that. What he is trying to do is change is the playground behaviour. JC is reflecting what thousands of voters say they want changed. Democracy in action.

What makes you think direct questions from the public will change the manner in which the question is discussed?