An outsider's view of British politics

I once watched the equivalent of PM's questions in France on TV and they were much more courteous. But away from the cameras?

Greta if the Swedish newspapers think that our Parliament is unruly, what is the Swedish one like? A bit dour?

Confrontation, argument, disagreement is creative where ideas are concerned so generally a good thing.

As someone else said, behaviour of some MPs is another matter.

Our Parliament has always been the same, very lively!! The white sword lines tell a tale!! Very necessary in the 18th century when MP's actually drew their swords and threatened each other!! We can't all be as sedate as Sweden!!

Sparsely populated indeed - on the rare occasions when I have watched it on TV I have been impressed by the fact that speakers on a topic are mostly talking to themselves.

And a system with a built-in opposition will inevitably be adversarial. It is pretty unedifying to watch, but I guess is better than a dictatorship where no opposition is tolerated. Unfortunately it does lead to more than a hint of the school playground. And lots of play-acting - I am quite sure that MPs' views are not really as polarised as they are required to paint them,

lemongrove: It may not be like the Swedish Parliament ( is it a particularly humourless one?)

What has humour got to do with it?

Apart from PMQs and when there’s an important debate it’s usually very sparsely populated.

It may not be like the Swedish Parliament ( is it a particularly humourless one?) but compared to many countries around the world ours is meek and mild.It’s only really PMQ’s that can be really rowdy at times.

Well you would get that in a binary system of government and opposition(sitting facing each other)
The clue is on the word Opposition.
Their behaviour in the Commons is another matter

The comments are fair. We should expect more of our leaders. (It won’t change though, it’s always been the same).

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