Behaviour at PMQs

paddyann54

I stopped watching PMQ'sthe disrepect shown to the elected members of the SNP sickens me.
Is this REALLY democracy ?
Whatever the personalfeeling of the opposite bench the men and women of the SNP have been elected on ever increasing votes by the people of Scotland and quite frankly are doing a better job than Bo'jo's circus of clowns and incompetents..not to mention crooks and liars
.What it does do is show us exactly where we stand with the toxic tories and that can only be to the benefit of the Independence cause.

I agree with paddyann 100%

Just get them to pass the conch!

This lot could learn a lot from the rules my school set for debating sessions. They call each other the Right Honourable but there’s nothing honourable in their behaviour and we wonder why this self serving, privileged bunch can’t sort out the problems affecting the lives of us plebs

Short memory!

DaisyAnne

Chris Bryant is Labour Curlywhirly although he has an interesting past and was a member of the Conservative Party while at Oxford. He is also a former Anglican Priest.

Ah, wasn't sure- but that explains why I think he talks sense! I really like and respect him - never gets rattled and always polite.

What do you mean?

GSM is not always respectful and well mannered!

I agree about Tom T. Having said that I often find myself impressed by some MP’s when they’re discussing a certain issue but am then appalled when I check out their voting record.

Chris Bryant Is always interesting and worth listening to. I found Tom T excellent throughout the dreadful way we abs the US left Afghanistan

Chris Bryant is Labour Curlywhirly although he has an interesting past and was a member of the Conservative Party while at Oxford. He is also a former Anglican Priest.

Iam64

DaisyAnn I agree with you, Tom T and Chris B give us hope

I agree too - I am not a Tory voter, but think both Tom T and Chris B would be make far better PMs than Johnson.

DaisyAnn I agree with you, Tom T and Chris B give us hope

Iam64

Imagine if Tom Tugendhat was PM - I can only think behaviour at PMQs would improve, as would the government

Angela Raynor is settling into her role rather well

I'm not sure where Tom Tugenhat sits in the political spectrum. That means I don't know what sort of PM he would make, other than a thoughtful, knowledgable, polite one. That would certainly be a change. I have heard both him and Chris Bryant over the last couple of days. Both polite and with interesting fact based views, well put. Both are on the Foreign Affairs Committee. There are some good - in the broadest sense - MPs who know how to do a job of work.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Doodledog

Anyone in the Tory party who is not an extreme right-wing swivel-eyed lunatic would make a better PM.

?? Are you not a Johnson fan, Ladyleftfieldlover?

I assume you’re joking! He was a very entertaining host on HIGNFY but that’s it really. No substance.

Of course I was joking . It was the unambiguous way you described him that made me laugh.

Imagine if Tom Tugendhat was PM - I can only think behaviour at PMQs would improve, as would the government

Angela Raynor is settling into her role rather well

I wonder how many of you have noticed the increasing number of male - mostly Tory MPs - who do not use the phrase: 'the honourable lady' when replying to female MPs. For starters, the PM failed to do this yesterday when responding to Caroline Lucas. I've noticed this failure often when Angela Rayner is posing questions (and yes Coastpath her manner and demeanour is significantly more polite than many facing her). The Speaker should call out this creeping misogony!

Doodledog

*Anyone in the Tory party who is not an extreme right-wing swivel-eyed lunatic would make a better PM.*

?? Are you not a Johnson fan, Ladyleftfieldlover?

I assume you’re joking! He was a very entertaining host on HIGNFY but that’s it really. No substance.

There are Tory MPs who rightly find this whole situation in Parliament and with this current government an embarrassment. They need to do something about it. There is nothing we can do sadly.

Anyone in the Tory party who is not an extreme right-wing swivel-eyed lunatic would make a better PM.

?? Are you not a Johnson fan, Ladyleftfieldlover?

westendgirl

~To be fair there are some tory MPs who do not make governing into a game. I heard Tom Tugendhat this morning, , obviously knows what he is talking about ,is ,knowledgeable.quiet, calm. Now he would make a good PM.

Anyone in the Tory party who is not an extreme right-wing swivel-eyed lunatic would make a better PM.

~To be fair there are some tory MPs who do not make governing into a game. I heard Tom Tugendhat this morning, , obviously knows what he is talking about ,is ,knowledgeable.quiet, calm. Now he would make a good PM.

I used to teach PSHE to older teenagers and along with studying democracy and the voting system they were encouraged to understand the UK political spectrum. At the time watching clips of PMQs was a really good way of getting them into the subject matter.

Within the wider PHSE curriculum the pupils were encouraged to demonstrate respect, learn to express disagreement without rancour, debate using reasoned arguments etc. and I have to say that they made a much better job of it than anything to be seen at PMQs nowadays.

I'm afraid if I were still teaching I would be using the clips of PMQs to demonstrate to my pupils how NOT to behave.

It’s an old exchange btw

Oh it’s linking to the wrong one -the second video of Johnson with the Russian foreign minister

I’ve just watched the exchange Caroline Lucas was referring to and an gobsmacked. It’s here twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1496488739136323585?s=21

I know it’s widely accepted that Russia interfered in the referendum (& it’s easy to see why, it has weakened the U.K. and caused disruption). I also know that Johnson/Tory Party have been accused of being rather cosy with the Russians & I know there is a lot of Russian money in the City, but I was still gobsmacked by this.