Silent Hunter's PMQs Thread

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Boring addition, seems to me the new semi-scandals on Tory side (Davis included) has taken the teeth out of Cameron's attack... only for a bit though.

[Silent Hunter]

25 June 2008

Cameron/Brown was a bit poor. While Cameron is all style and no substance, Brown is all substance and no style.

Clegg's point on the Gurkhas is good and I'm not sure where the citizenship thing stands. They should all be able to claim it if they were honourably discharged, IMO.

Brokenshire's "Casino Royale or Temple of Doom?" question shows that he hasn't really understood the plot of either movie. Hint, the latter is a happy ending where hundreds of children are rescued from poverty. Not quite a Trivia Tory, though.

[Хahar 🤔]

Brown's not giving many straight answers. Even after being confronted by Cameron, he dodges a question by Clegg.

[Silent Hunter]

Brown's not giving manyy straight answers. Even after being confronted by Cameron, he dodges a question by Clegg.

Indeed. His usual routine is to point out the massive investment and improvements that Labour has made in policy area X.

The whole "deals" thing- I personally believe that the Tories were doing the same thing, if it was happening at all. That's just my opinion.

Cameron promised to end "Punch and Judy politics" on his part over a year ago and has done nothing about it.

Tapsell's question was a bit stupid, but the laughing was in bad taste.

I dislike "Trivia Tories" and Brown treated that question with the contempt it deserved.

I'm going on holiday tomorrow. I'll be back on Tuesday 15 July, so next week's PMQs will not get a report either.

[Silent Hunter]

Today's was so boring and repetitive, I'm not even doing a report.

Both sides need to up their game.

[afleitch]

Today's was so boring and repetitive, I'm not even doing a report.

Both sides need to up their game.

Brown needs to start answering the questions! It's got so bad even the man on the street (read: work colleagues) who don't watch the whole spectacle knows he never answers anything.

When he does speak 'stuff' just comes out. Theres something in there, mostly statistical 'times table' style things and a few random mthings he remembered happened once in 1999 and changed by a certain % in 2000 and then he sits down again. That's what spending your career in the bowels of the Treasury does to you. This time there is no one there to make sense of the gobbledygook before it hits the evening news.

[Хahar 🤔]

Today's was so boring and repetitive, I'm not even doing a report.

Both sides need to up their game.

Brown needs to start answering the questions! It's got so bad even the man on the street (read: work colleagues) who don't watch the whole spectacle knows he never answers anything.

When he does speak 'stuff' just comes out. Theres something in there, mostly statistical 'times table' style things and a few random mthings he remembered happened once in 1999 and changed by a certain % in 2000 and then he sits down again. That's what spending your career in the bowels of the Treasury does to you. This time there is no one there to make sense of the gobbledygook before it hits the evening news.

Yep. I haven't heard him actually "say" anything in the past couple months. He keeps getting called out on it, too. It's a wonder that he persists.

This is the last one in a few months, correct?

[afleitch]

This is the last one in a few months, correct?

Yes. We only have the conference season to look forward to.

Ignore all polls from now until November.

[Хahar 🤔]

This is the last one in a few months, correct?

Yes. We only have the conference season to look forward to.

Ignore all polls from now until November.

This is the only news from Britain that C-SPAN provides us.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Brown needs to start answering the questions!

Yes, he doesn't do the non-answer answer very well. If you can't do that sort of thing well, you shouldn't do it at all.

Yes. We only have the conference season to look forward to.

Or dread. Depending on your view of Conferenceland.

[afleitch]

Or dread. Depending on your view of Conferenceland.

I hope to follow the pot holed and sick stained yellow brick road to Conferenceland this year myself

'Alan Duncans talking about trade and there are seats at the back WOOT!'

'Someones signing a book with the words 'rise of' or 'fall of' in the title. Screw Amazon, I'm 'aving that'