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Behaviour in Houses of Parliment

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Anyone else think that the way MP's behave in the houses of Parliment is just a waste of time, with the two main parties trying to score points against each other rather then just actually doing anything useful?

There's lot of things they need to be discussing and things to be done to help people and all they seem to do is score points to get them to the next election.

You wouldn't expect such behaviour in a court of law or a company board room, why is it the norm for government?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Its not the norm for our government, and its virtually never the case for other governments.

    The bits where they yammer back and forth and argue arent all that common, most of the time there arent enough people there to bother.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    DiamondGeezer wrote:
    Anyone else think that the way MP's behave in the houses of Parliment is just a waste of time, with the two main parties trying to score points against each other rather then just actually doing anything useful?

    There's lot of things they need to be discussing and things to be done to help people and all they seem to do is score points to get them to the next election.

    You wouldn't expect such behaviour in a court of law or a company board room, why is it the norm for government?
    Yes, I agree. It's all about winning personal battles, 'coming out on top' and cracking the best jokes.

    For every sensible, thoughtful and incisive politician (the sadly missed Robin Cook for instance, or even Kenneth Clarke) there are 100 charlatans and bufoons.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You're only seeing a tiny bit - most work is done by in Committee or by normal debates - which are far from yar boo, but detailed discussion of the issues. I've sat through more than one debate and committee and been impressed by the level of detailed knowledge on both sides. However unless you commonyl watch parliamentary channel or go to the house you'll never see this side - because its not very media friendly (in fact its deadly dull unless you're dealing with the subject).

    Also Question Time has a point. If you can't master the detail or cope with the pressure of the House of Commons you're not going to be able to cope very well when a bomb goes off in central London or the currency is falling through the floor
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kenneth Clarke? make real points? When? He was one of the worst for point scoring or in his latter years purposely sabotaging his own party leaders!

    Alan Clarke was far more honest in the commons!

    What we see on tv is just edited, entertaining bits. Most of it is slow, boring, never ending ramblings of policy and decisions and bills.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's a showpiece, it can be quite entertaining sometimes.

    Most actual work is done by civil servants in Whitehall.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i was driving today in miserable weather listening to the vine show radio 2.
    new tory boss boys first day against tony.
    it was fucking brilliant ...i realy was laughing out loud.
    but thats where things are just aired publicly. great fun.
    the original muppet show.
    the real work is done elswhere.
    and like someone else said ...if you can't do good at the despatch box ...how the fuck you going to do under real presure ...dealing with all the other fast talking crooked villans that run all the other countries.
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