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PMQs is Just starting HURRAH

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:02, 138 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
They're talking about the post office IT system.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:03, Reply)
They're talking about the debates now. Does anyone care.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:04, Reply)
N.

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:05, Reply)

N
(I helped save b3ta! Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:06, Reply)
The televised leaders' debates we had last time did a lot to combat voter apathy.
Then we got the ConDems, and all the new voters wondered why they bothered.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:10, Reply)
I think the debates became an important issue once it was clear that Cameron was shitting himself about them.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:11, Reply)
He doesn't want to win.
Who would want to be a prime minister overseeing the second great banking crash and nuclear war with russia?
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:26, Reply)
dunno ... if there's going to be a crash and a war then being in the gubmint is as secure a place as any
Bunkers aren't cheap.
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:28, Reply)
Mind you, old bLair still gets 24-7 plod protection around his house, even when he's getting a suntan in the middle east...
... on the back of all his arab mate's pocket.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:21, Reply)
"Does anyone caaaare...? Doo-doo-doo-doo..."

(McChinaman banned, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:19, Reply)
FUUUCK - I've got to go to a meeting.
And I forgot to record it. Bollox.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:05, Reply)
They aren't lowering the age of consent
hth xx
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:06, Reply)
S'ok, his meeting is in Italy.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:11, Reply)
It'll be on the iPlayer mate.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:08, Reply)
Can't get it here in Nigeria

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:11, Reply)
PMQs is a bit shit, and does nothing to facilitate the running of the country.
Who would make your Front Bench Shag List? Ha ha, remember Shag Lists? Sky magazine was great!
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:07, Reply)
Karen Krizanovich would have got it, twenty years ago

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:09, Reply)
She must've been in her 50s even then

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:10, Reply)
There's no substitute for experience.

(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:11, Reply)
It's just a shouting match.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:10, Reply)
I remember David Cameron promising to do away with "yah-boo" politics.
Another success.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:12, Reply)
No top down reform of yah-boo politics.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:12, Reply)
And replacing it with "Rah-rah-rah we're going to smash the oiks"

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:13, Reply)
he's been very consistent in keeping promises

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:15, Reply)
Gloria de Piero

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:14, Reply)
Pamela Nash

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:17, Reply)
Lisa Nandy

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:17, Reply)
Stella Creasy

(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:20, Reply)
In the right light, yep.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:20, Reply)
ah, Friends Who Sleep With Each Other
not made up at all honest
(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:15, Reply)
The PM calling the Leader of the Opposite "a waste of space" isn't the most inspiring thing about our great democracy (TM).

(McChinaman banned, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:21, Reply)
Pretty sure that I'd get the sack if I conducted discussion in that fashion, in my office.

(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:24, Reply)
try it.
The workshop manager and building supervisor are a bit like that at times.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:34, Reply)
the shadow leader calling the prime minister Useless as well is shitty.
Unparliamentary language they should both be punched in the face by the speaker.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:24, Reply)
Would've been better if Dame Boothroyd was still available to do it.

(McChinaman banned, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:55, Reply)
Pre Menstrual Queers?
Preteen Masturbating Queue?
Prefectory Medal Quiz?
Pass Manure Quickly?
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:17, Reply)
PUNCH. MY. QUIM.

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:18, Reply)
ok.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:19, Reply)
HARDER

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:20, Reply)
this. is. life.

(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:22, Reply)
haha

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:22, Reply)
YOU'VE GOT A FANNY LIKE A PUNCHED LASAGNA

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:23, Reply)
from what I've seen, and that's very little, they all come across as pricks.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:18, Reply)
The leaders questions are usually bollocks. Questions from members usually about very specific things are actually slightly useful.
But never shown.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:19, Reply)
what I don't understand, is if the questions are so important, and the leaders nearly always have answers, why do we need the spectacle of them all yabooing at each other?
It's clear these things are more complicated than "back bench asks question, PM makes decision there live." So it all seems like a farce.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:25, Reply)
Tradition, innit?
Besides, take away PMQs and politicians would have to shout at strangers down at Speakers' Corner.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:28, Reply)
at least that way they might get punched in the face a bit more.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:31, Reply)
I'm on board with this plan.
They should take PMQs on tour, just turn up in any town centre and get on with it.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:41, Reply)
'tradition' is the last defence of something that probably shouldn't happen.
Like fox hunting and that thing the Spanish do with bulls whose name has temporarily vacated my head.
(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:41, Reply)
Bullfighting?

(I helped save b3ta! Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:22, Reply)
Half of it seems to be a sort of a moral boost for the party members.
The rest is getting it on record, getting yourself on TV and either kicking or sucking up to the PM depending on which side you're on.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:35, Reply)
I reckon there have got to be less degrading ways of doing it though.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:38, Reply)
they should make it more degrading
you can only raise a question if you soil and debase yourself at the foot of the Speaker's chair
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:40, Reply)
They should use the gunge tank like they did on Noel's house party.
And they could do that bit where the kids embarrass the parents and get an Amiga, but instead of an Amiga, it's a law passed.
(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:09, Reply)
we need a new way to be ruled.

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:23, Reply)
as long as the eventual führer isn't ginger

(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:28, Reply)
:(

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:29, Reply)
I like David Graeber's idea of selecting our representatives by lottery.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:29, Reply)
well the way I feel, none of the Governments speak for, or even have anything in common with "the people" at roots level.
Im more than tempted to go Green this year, as are a lot of people.
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:31, Reply)
I don't trust none of em and they all look like numpties.

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:32, Reply)
there's only 1 government.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:33, Reply)
tin foil hat time

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:36, Reply)
no, I mean, there is only 1 government. the others are political parties.
Dingus.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:37, Reply)
It's disappointing that we didn't take the opportunity to change our voting system when we had the chance.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:35, Reply)
yeah, that was a dissapointing turn.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:36, Reply)
The Greens look set to pick up where the Lib Dems left off.
Nonsense policies, 0 chance of being elected, a safe protest vote.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:40, Reply)
I'm just going to vote for myself.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:41, Reply)
I'll probably end up voting Labour,
in the vain hope of unseating the Tory incumbent.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:43, Reply)
incumbent is a lovely word to say
INCUMBENT
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:47, Reply)
IN
CUM
BENT
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:55, Reply)
you've ruined it now

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:57, Reply)
I have a horrible feeling the conservatives will just take a minority again.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:47, Reply)
It's the lack of a remotely credible alternative that makes this the most likely outcome.
I shudder to think who will be propping them up.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:50, Reply)
One of the big problems is that too many voters believe the rhetoric about what you will get from each party.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:50, Reply)
but you can't expect everyone to have the time or inclination to do good research on outcomes and economy and what the promises mean.
The problem is the way it's reported and discussed in the media.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:53, Reply)
It would be better if we had an education system that equipped people better to assess these things.
Most of the media is pretty shit, but it's just another victim of capitalism.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:57, Reply)
I reckon I'd be a great teacher.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:00, Reply)
Would you do that sitting backwards on a chair thing?

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:02, Reply)
all day.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:07, Reply)
So cool.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:09, Reply)
wearing a skirt

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:34, Reply)
our current libdem mp is pretty decent as a local representative
it's almost a shame he's got no power in gubmint and will be booted out at the next election
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:42, Reply)
By all accounts, Grant Shapps is an excellent local representative (he's not my MP, but his constituency covers my place of work).
Doesn't make him any less of an insufferable cunt, though.

Not sure what point I'm trying to make, tbh.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:47, Reply)
the original intent of parliament was that MPs should represent the interests of their constituents
and a national government should be formed out of a consensus of those representatives

But now we effectively elect a party and a leader and the more senior an MP becomes, the more separated from his constituency interests
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:50, Reply)
No, you must be wrong.
There was a nice an angry man on the radio, last week, explaining that the televised debates were pointless, as we don't vote for the party leaders.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:53, Reply)
we shouldn't
but there have been loads of polls showing that people are far more likely to know the names of the party leaders than of their local representatives and candidates

This is a genuine case of BROKEN BRITAIN
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:56, Reply)
Are we any nearer to a case of something actually GOING MAD yet?

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:58, Reply)
it's still a neck-and-neck race between Health'n'Safety and Political Correctness

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:05, Reply)
I reckon it's political correctness gone mad that you can't punch a colleague when you're hungry.
#satire
(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:10, Reply)
It's good that someone took a poll to find out the staggeringly obvious.

(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:01, Reply)
sometimes the staggeringly obvious turns out to be false
that's why we have SCIENCE
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:05, Reply)
Science ought to spend less time dicking about with opinion polls,
and solve world hunger, or something.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:19, Reply)
They are too far away from the current government to be a protest vote
And there is nothing safe about it - their policies are far closer to traditional Labour voter's hearts, but I suspect most Labour voters will be too scared to vote for them out of fear of helping the Tories.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:48, Reply)
When you squint from a distance, the Greens almost look like the ideal party.
When you get a good close up look at them though, unfortunately it turns out they are mostly batshit mental.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:50, Reply)
That's surely an improvement on the main parties who look shit from any distance.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:52, Reply)
it's weird that people seem to have a problem with potentially pie in the sky policy from an untested party,
But are happy to reelect parties that have proven themselves liars.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:58, Reply)
Well, what actually happens is they become disillusioned with the system and withdraw from it, rather than trying something else.
The main parties still retain a lot of their core voters, the floating voters who usually decide the outcomes have floated off, leaving us with hung parliaments.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:01, Reply)
^ This.
On the plus side, our system ought to see the Greens wandering perennially at the fringe, where they can't do any harm.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:05, Reply)
They still might get my vote, which will have no bearing whatsoever on the outcome of the general election.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:08, Reply)
yeah, but you're some sort of bonkers hippy, the party would cease to exist without your lot.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:14, Reply)
I'd slag you off for this, but I tend to throw my vote away on the local Trots.
Glass houses, and all that.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:16, Reply)
Sorry about the delay Monty, its been rectified now

(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 12:59, Reply)
Sophie Dahl is on bbc 2 now. She's got hotter the older she's got.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:03, Reply)
I have a grudging respect for Cullum

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:04, Reply)
Why aren't you at work?

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:13, Reply)
I'm entering 18 months of vat returns. I have a second screen

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:14, Reply)
I would do things to her that would make a hygene-obsessed hypcondract commit suicide.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:22, Reply)
I would do.... to, with & form....her.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:22, Reply)
maybe her had just

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:25, Reply)
what even I - don't

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:35, Reply)
I would wrestle her with Rachael Khoo and Lorain Pascale, in a children's swimming pool filled with shit, piss and tuna.

(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:41, Reply)
Ewww Tuna

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:44, Reply)
hypcondractia is shit and for cunts

(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:31, Reply)
someone start a new thread plz

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Mar 2015, 13:40, Reply)

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