No, not at all. PMQ`s is theatre, to rest an assessment on that basis alone is rather hollow. I happen to know that M.P`s, including from parties other than the Conservatives, feel that Sir Lindsay is not a man to fall foul of, is respected and considered fair. Don`t be fooled by the accent !
Agreed.
But few people really answer questions these days. Whether it`s politics or big business - semantic choreography enables folk to answer questions, but leave gaps around the real core or crux at issue or central to the question.
See Medway Modernists reply. PMQ's worse than ever now. Sunak or whoever is PM today/next week (changes so often) must be so relieved to get such an easy ride.
Spot on, was thinking of using the newspaper analogy myself.
It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Yep, saw MM`s post. There are judges in the House of Lords - not required in the HoC.
Do you really think i`m condoning the lack of a straight answer to a straight question ? (you don`t have to answer that
) What i`m alluding to is that whatever the colour of the party in Government - when it comes to tricky matters/questions in the HoC, you`ll rarely get a full/straight answer - it`s called politics.
"Recorded by Hansard". Yes, I know, obviously. The point MM and I make is that such things should at the very least get the same level of publicity as the original untruth/mistake. How many people scour Hansard for corrections ffs?
Do you really think i`m condoning the lack of a straight answer to a straight question ? (you don`t have to answer that
It’s hilarious because the Supreme Court quoted warnings given by the British Police and the Foreign Office regarding safety of British citizens and the actions of the Rwandan Government including murders, torture and ‘disappearances’. I‘m always less amazed by the awful policies the Government enact than I am by their sheer breathtaking incompetence. It was known weeks ago that the scheme would fail when the evidence was presented and the Government lawyers had no answers. And, for the record Labour (presumably Captain Hindsight) warned that this would be the outcome when the Government first proposed it. But hey ho let’s chuck £140 million down the drain. After all there’s plenty of money for everything else !How about passing a law to say the Yemen is safe? Myanmar? Afghanistan a great place for liberated women?
Perhaps they can declare Gaza and Israel are safe places atm.
"It's safe because we say it is" in the face of the evidence elucidated by the Supreme Court today.
Astonishing sums of money clearly wasted by this Government over the last few years (esp since Johnson started) on things that are obviously useless. Can add £40m+ of public money spaffed by Johnson of the "Garden Bridge" that he promised would not spend a penny of public money.
