More like a noisy farmyard than the "Senate" of the United Kingdom.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/order-order--is-it-time-to-bring-rowdy-mps-into-line-and-reform-pmqs-9027619.html

Is it time to bring rowdy MPs into line and reform PMQs?

Controlling the mob?

I have long been critical of the weekly circus of "Yaboo" politics so loved and commented upon by the media pundits of television and press. "The Prime minister was clearly left reeling after heavy blows were landed from the opposition benches" or some other cliche ridden rubbish from BBC News or Sky News or some other media commentators, frequently dominate the political news "reports", and are as meaningless as they are banal.

(http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-weekly-visit-to-kintergarden.html)

It is not only during Questions to the Prime Minister that this playground behaviour of trading insults and shouting banalities across the chamber of the House of Commons is put on public display by the cameras and microphones. Many, perhaps the majority of debates, on matters far too important to be left to the hysterical rantings of people behaving more like spoilt children than serious politicians,degenerate into farce and are resolved only by the usual troop through the lobbies of members pre programmed to record their votes in a particular way, as they are nothing more than lobby fodder for the whips and leadership of their respective parties.
If there are to be reforms in the way in which PMQ's and indeed all debates in the Commons are conducted, then such changes should be welcomed. It may go some way towards alleviating the growing disgust, resentment and hostility that many people in this country feel towards politicians and the way in which they behave and how they conduct themselves.

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Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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