I'm still awed at being told by someone that Swedish parliament was too rowdy and disrespectful and that they should take lessons from the UK because someone was indirectly rude. I have to assume that their only experience of UK parliament was fictional, it is a clownshow.
Which is weird, because the UK one is actually miles ahead of it's cloned Canadian cousin. I'd much rather take a rude parliament over one where they don't even answer the questions.
I'm not sure that being rude would help with getting answers. If you've tuned into a PMQ in the last ten years they rarely, if ever, answer any of the questions.
I'd prefer if they went the whole hog and started fistfighting instead of doing oxbridge debate class shit.
Opposition: "Mr. Speaker, when will the Prime Minister apologize for the egregious typeface error on his letterhead?" a loud ring of "hear, hear"
PM: "Mr. Speaker, since we formed government, we've raised living standards 36%, put more money in the pocket of every child in Canada, defeated the Coronavirus, and stopped climate change. If the opposition minister doesn't want nice things for Canadians, perhaps he should tell them that directly." whooping and cheering
Meanwhile the US and Russian versions are a press secretary taking questions from mostly recuperated career journalists that amount to repeating "please refer to the press release already made, and stop being un-patriotic. Thanks, no further questions".
the rituals are entertaining but I prefer better rules than just unwritten manners etc.. In most places everyone speaks uninterrupted, in britain it's like one's character is judged at every second
I'm still awed at being told by someone that Swedish parliament was too rowdy and disrespectful and that they should take lessons from the UK because someone was indirectly rude. I have to assume that their only experience of UK parliament was fictional, it is a clownshow.
Which is weird, because the UK one is actually miles ahead of it's cloned Canadian cousin. I'd much rather take a rude parliament over one where they don't even answer the questions.
I'm not sure that being rude would help with getting answers. If you've tuned into a PMQ in the last ten years they rarely, if ever, answer any of the questions.
I'd prefer if they went the whole hog and started fistfighting instead of doing oxbridge debate class shit.
Fair enough, but literally every exchange is:
Opposition: "Mr. Speaker, when will the Prime Minister apologize for the egregious typeface error on his letterhead?" a loud ring of "hear, hear"
PM: "Mr. Speaker, since we formed government, we've raised living standards 36%, put more money in the pocket of every child in Canada, defeated the Coronavirus, and stopped climate change. If the opposition minister doesn't want nice things for Canadians, perhaps he should tell them that directly." whooping and cheering
Meanwhile the US and Russian versions are a press secretary taking questions from mostly recuperated career journalists that amount to repeating "please refer to the press release already made, and stop being un-patriotic. Thanks, no further questions".
Honestly thought this was supposed to be description of UK Parliament until I saw the word "Canada".
Isn;t the House of Lords pretentious and delicate while the Commons is the shitshow? cartoonish aristocracy lol
House of Commons is the noisy one. House of Lords is basically the same format but with less jeering.
the rituals are entertaining but I prefer better rules than just unwritten manners etc.. In most places everyone speaks uninterrupted, in britain it's like one's character is judged at every second