UK PMQ Scorecard and Thoughts

[The Man From G.O.P.]

I'd like start a thread on British PMQ's, I watch them every week and I would like to provide commentary as well as give a verdict on the winner, of couse I will be wrong in all the UKers eyes, so I hope you all will chime in too, I think I'd like to start with a few weeks ago, when Parliament came out of recess.

Coming Soon.

[Democratic Hawk]

I can't stomach all that yah-boo behaviour on the part of our politicians no matter which side of the House they sit on, so I very rarely watch

I gather Brown tends to struggles when up against Cameron but that says nothing when you consider George W Bush performed rather pathetically against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential debates, especially, the first one . William Hague was pretty much a virtuoso at Prime Minister's Question Time but there is more to governing a country and representing Britain's interests on an international field than performing sharp and eloquently at PMQ's

Dave

[The Man From G.O.P.]

I can't stomach all that yah-boo behaviour on the part of our politicians no matter which side of the House they sit on, so I very rarely watch

I gather Brown tends to struggles when up against Cameron but that says nothing when you consider George W Bush performed rather pathetically against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential debates, especially, the first one . William Hague was pretty much a virtuoso at Prime Minister's Question Time but there is more to governing a country and representing Britain's interests on an international field than performing sharp and eloquently at PMQ's

Dave

Except when the government begins to get hammered from many angles the PMQ one seems to sting quite a bit more.

[afleitch]

I can't stomach all that yah-boo behaviour on the part of our politicians no matter which side of the House they sit on, so I very rarely watch

I gather Brown tends to struggles when up against Cameron but that says nothing when you consider George W Bush performed rather pathetically against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential debates, especially, the first one . William Hague was pretty much a virtuoso at Prime Minister's Question Time but there is more to governing a country and representing Britain's interests on an international field than performing sharp and eloquently at PMQ's

Dave

Except when the government begins to get hammered from many angles the PMQ one seems to sting quite a bit more.

True; its providing the run in to that days news more freuently, at least more so than at any time since 1997.

[Hatman 🍁]

Question period is better

[Hash]

Question period is better

[afleitch]

Question period is better

Question Period sounds a bit Shelbyville to Questions' Springfield

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

PMQ's has become a caricature of itself.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

PMQ's has become a caricature of itself.

So has the Government.

[afleitch]

PMQ's has become a caricature of itself.

So has the Government.

'Oh no you di-ahnt'

Sorry, that was uncharacteristically low brow for me

[The Man From G.O.P.]

PMQ's has become a caricature of itself.

So has the Government.

'Oh no you di-ahnt'

Sorry, that was uncharacteristically low brow for me

I felt the sting when I typed it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

PMQ's has become a caricature of itself.

So has the Government.

Partisan twaddle.

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Part of the trouble with PMQ's is that the worst aspects of it have become somewhat ritualised, leading to a neglect of it's more useful purposes.
I think that it is good that Parliament gets to ask questions of the Prime Minister every week, but I dislike the artificial unpleasantness of the current way of doing it. That and the fact that about half the questions are, at best, idiotic ("would the Prime Minister agree with me that little kittens are cute?", "isn't it time the Prime Minister accepts that he sucks?", "a football team in my constituency is doing well you know. I represent a marginal seat. Please praise the team" and so on and so forth).

[Hatman 🍁]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

I was kidding, I just don't think that Question Period sounds very exciting.

[Hatman 🍁]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

I was kidding, I just don't think that Question Period sounds very exciting.

Have you seen it?

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

I was kidding, I just don't think that Question Period sounds very exciting.

Have you seen it?

Sigh... Yes I have, it is brutal, I wish we here in America had something like it, the name is just terribly boring.

[Hatman 🍁]

Question Period sonds awful, not to mention I'd commit suicide after hearing EH? EH? EH? after every point counterpoint.

I was kidding, I just don't think that Question Period sounds very exciting.

Have you seen it?

Sigh... Yes I have, it is brutal, I wish we here in America had something like it, the name is just terribly boring.

What's brutal about it? The name? Whatever!