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domalino said:
Once again PMQ's is exposed as a completely ineffectual forum to hold the PM to account.
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It is with Starmer. He’s hopeless.

The first 17 questions of 2022 were about cake. Tedious. Not like there was a cost of living crisis looming.

Last week he asked if a book that was out by Christmas was the title. If he wants to do stand up he should try an open mic night he might be more effective as his only visible policies seem to be to get people sacked, which is odd for a party funded by trade unions.
 
NPBlue said:
I don't confess to having a great understanding of politics in the USA, but I've seen some documentaries from respected British journalists covering the mid term elections, and I've found their reports quite shocking.

So many people were being interviwed at rallies and conventions thinking a civil war was about to break out, with accustations of fake news and fixed elections being promoted by the speakers on stage fuelling the fire, it didn't promote a country at ease with itself.

On this side of the pond, it came across as a confused mess with frightening consequences. I don't know how representative those reports were but is that take on the situation, that civil war could break out, a real concern for you?
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The real concern is that there are literally millions of uneducated gun toting sheeple who believe things that even 5yr olds know are crazy…and yet are willing to say the quiet parts out loud.

Conservatives used to have a fairly straightforward ideology of strong national defence, law and order, low taxes, and small govt. When out of power, they understood that there were still things they could get accomplished with Democrats.

Today, it’s “if we don’t win, the election is rigged, so we are going to put people in place to make sure elections are never rigged again, so that we win!”

Get the logic?!

My concern is that IF they don’t get what they want, when they want it, someone’s going to die.

And, yes, I think it is entirely possible, because for some people in this country, the pandemic of poor mental health is often dealt with by death of others or suicide…often by cop!
 
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west didsblue said:
Following in the footsteps of Truss who didn’t turn up for her urgent question only last week. Shows the contempt they have for parliamentary accountability.
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They don't even turn up to answer questions from the parliamentary committees for their department.
 
El_george said:
Thank you. I suppose I could have googled this but I didn't so it is kind of you to inform me. Didn't AA also start in America in the 1930s too?
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The temperance movement started in the 19th century.
 
manchester blue said:
It is with Starmer. He’s hopeless.

The first 17 questions of 2022 were about cake. Tedious. Not like there was a cost of living crisis looming.

Last week he asked if a book that was out by Christmas was the title. If he wants to do stand up he should try an open mic night he might be more effective as his only visible policies seem to be to get people sacked, which is odd for a party funded by trade unions.
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It's the answers you need to be more critical of rather than the questions.

Whether it was Johnson, Truss or now Sunak they know they don't have to answer any difficult questions and know that they can get away with waffling randomly about Jeremy Corbyn, North London elites, uncontrolled immigration under Labour, uncontrolled spending under Labour, getting Brexit done, supporting Ukraine and get away with it because there is no mechanism to force them to actually answer a question, and they also know that the LOTO only has 6 questions so they can see it out quite easily.

Sunak was marginally more convincing than the two previous incumbents but it didn't take him long to bring up the stock catchphrases rather than answering tricky questions about Braverman, levelling up and non-dom.
 
west didsblue said:
It's the answers you need to be more critical of rather than the questions.

Whether it was Johnson, Truss or now Sunak they know they don't have to answer any difficult questions and know that they can get away with waffling randomly about Jeremy Corbyn, North London elites, uncontrolled immigration under Labour, uncontrolled spending under Labour, getting Brexit done, supporting Ukraine and get away with it because there is no mechanism to force them to actually answer a question, and they also know that the LOTO only has 6 questions so they can see it out quite easily.

Sunak was marginally more convincing than the two previous incumbents but it didn't take him long to bring up the stock catchphrases rather than answering tricky questions about Braverman, levelling up and non-dom.
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Nail on head.
They should be made to answer any questions put to them, or they may as well scrap the meeting as it's pointless.
 
El_george said:
Ha - I was thinking about this the other day, did Coppell do like 30 days? Liz Truss did more, but if your minus the mourning period for QEII it was about the same.

Truss = Fat Sam - if you think about it from an England point of view!
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I think had they both swapped places - Sam as PM and Liz as England coach - they would have achieved much more!
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Mr Speaker, I'd like to table a motion on whether the house thinks the member of Richmond (Yorks) is a ****.
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We need a better word for MPs - they are all cunts at heart, greasy pole climbers, , useless in the main, ne'er do owts, and treacherous to a T! Actually, the word, on reflection, seems to fit perfectly.
 
mosssideblue said:
Nail on head.
They should be made to answer any questions put to them, or they may as well scrap the meeting as it's pointless.
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Totally agree. It's a separate point to the thread I suppose, but what is the point in the speaker if they don't ensure that the house (and the electorate) get proper answers to questions? It's an utter pisstake that the PM can be asked a direct question and respond with some meaningless waffle and then a pre-prepared counterattack line that is either misleading or completely irrelevant.
 
Vic said:
The Tunbridge Wells Manifesto:
“I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure that areas like this are getting the funding they deserve".

He was talking about undoing Labour policy that “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” (the red wall that voted for them). Even if he meant that rural and coastal areas have pockets of deprivation, I don't think he meant he was moving money to Blackpool.
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I know what he meant - I was just saying that previously he managed to come up with a self-righteous justification about areas of Kent and Hampshire also having pockets of poverty (which is true, but as I said it's not true to argue that's what he did).

My point was that it's almost as if he didn't realise why his made-up justification was a good answer. It was at a Tory hustings, it (like the best lies) had some element of truth, but mostly it was delivered with conviction. At PMQs he missed out the best parts of the argument, but delivered it as if he still had the applause of a Tory audience in his ears.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
It’s actually a derivation of the letter T. It was started in the USA and someone used to write down the letter T next to people who had stated they would be ‘totally abstemious‘ and therefore practice ‘temperance totally‘.
They thus became known as T Totalers or teetotal as it was then spelt.
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This week on QI...

:)
 
manchester blue said:
It is with Starmer. He’s hopeless.

The first 17 questions of 2022 were about cake. Tedious. Not like there was a cost of living crisis looming.

Last week he asked if a book that was out by Christmas was the title. If he wants to do stand up he should try an open mic night he might be more effective as his only visible policies seem to be to get people sacked, which is odd for a party funded by trade unions.
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Yes, it’s definitely Starmer who’s the issue here. Nothing to do with the shitcunt government you blindly support, no siree, it’s all Labours fault for asking the wrong questions.
Be laughable if it wasn’t so depressing.
 
Phil1 said:
Yes, it’s definitely Starmer who’s the issue here. Nothing to do with the shitcunt government you blindly support, no siree, it’s all Labours fault for asking the wrong questions.
Be laughable if it wasn’t so depressing.
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Sadly a lot of people have the same attitude than admit they are wrong.
 
Phil1 said:
Yes, it’s definitely Starmer who’s the issue here. Nothing to do with the shitcunt government you blindly support, no siree, it’s all Labours fault for asking the wrong questions.
Be laughable if it wasn’t so depressing.
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Are you sure it's a real person?

I think it's just one of Ric's chatbots talking crap to keep the site ticking over.

;)
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Are you sure it's a real person?

I think it's just one of Ric's chatbots talking crap to keep the site ticking over.

;)
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It's hard to keep up tbf. There's so many accounts these days that leave you questioning wherever they are genuine or not. It's fucking tiring trying to figure them out.
 
manchester blue said:
It is with Starmer. He’s hopeless.

The first 17 questions of 2022 were about cake. Tedious. Not like there was a cost of living crisis looming.

Last week he asked if a book that was out by Christmas was the title. If he wants to do stand up he should try an open mic night he might be more effective as his only visible policies seem to be to get people sacked, which is odd for a party funded by trade unions.
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I disagree completely with this, Starmer is perfectly good at asking difficult questions and delivering them well, but the format allows to PM to simply not answer a direct question.

Anyway your “first 17 questions of 2022 were about cake” betrays you for what you are.


They were about the Prime Minister breaking the law and lead to him being removed from office and being subject to a parliamentary enquiry.
 
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