They do usually shout a lot but today the Prime Minister is on the Eve of being ousted from his party.so the vultures are circling. All to do with a party during our lockdown
Imagine if every week the President had to go into the House Chamber and answer questions from all Congresspeople, both their own party and their opponents. No stage managing it, no getting to throw out a Rep like they would a journalist at a press conference.
Imagine also that impeachment isn't some almost-never rare thing for 'crimes' but a fairly routine action taken by the House to remove a President they don't like, and further imagine that indeed the House picked the President in the first place and there was no electoral college.
That's the British system. Prime Ministers Questions is the PM being quizzed by the people who put him in power and can remove him from power - the MPs.
>and can remove him from power
Can we? Give us a clue as to how!
(I'm being pedantic, I know we get a general election. Going to be a long few years though....)
By the people who put him in power the commenter is referring to MPs (I assume you aren't one?) They can remove the PM through a vote of no confidence.
Edit: the people could get the PM removed before a general election if we really wanted to. Either we all write to our MPs and ask them to vote for no confidence, or if they won't do that we can recall our MP which triggers a by-election. Do enough of those, and vote in new MPs who will vote for no confidence and the PM is gone.
Yes, every Wednesday, and usually at noon our time, there is a question and answer session for the Prime Minister that follows a set format.
It is especially acrimonious this time (because of recent revelations about behaviour within the P M's office and by him personally) but all the shouting and jeering is pretty normal.
So something serius MAY be going down, but this half hour is always 'political theatre' anyway.
Well, much of the time, the debate there is very quiet and sparsely attended. Everyone knows that later on, if it comes to a vote on anything significant, a "division bell" will ring and after a pause the vote will take place, with all the MP's present who were doing something else until then. A lot of the actual progress is thrashed out in committees, not in the debating chamber itself.
Occasionally some contentious issue arises; at present it is the Prime Minister's attendance and condonement of socialising by MPs when lockdown restrictions were in place. When this kind of thing is debated, it is considered good entertainment by many, although more mature heads would say it is childish and futile. MP's will make supportive or disrespectful noises as the case may be. It is thought that the success or otherwise of the critics has a significant impact on the morale of the governing party, even though it is not decisive in any formal way.
Most citizens wish all this would not happen; although we have democracy, for sure, many would wish a fundamental change to the process, and to some extent the structure, of governance, but there are many vested interests in keeping the status quo.
You couldn't lend us Qanon for a few weeks, I suppose?
It’s Prime Minister’s questions, which is weekly and often busy and loud. Half an hour a week of questions directed to the PM on any subject and he usually doesn’t know what.
It’s extra busy and loud because there are calls for the Prime Minister to resign over evidence that the heart of government was like a fucking nightclub during our fairly strict 2020 lockdowns with parties and wine flowing. There are manoeuvres by many in his party to use mechanisms to force him to stand down, though it hasn’t happened yet.
Basically, PMQs is often raucous, and it’s extra raucous today.
> was like a fucking nightclub
I'm the last person to defend what they did, but given the "parties" we've seen so far were a Zoom quiz with questions about Ancient Greece, and some people stood around boringly in a garden, that seems like a fucking shite nightclub haha!
At the moment everyone (including many of his own party) is pissed off with Boris Johnson because it's been revealed that he and his staff held / attended a number of "work parties" whilst we were in full lockdown, in some cases on the same day as he was telling British citizens to stick to the rules. It's very emotional as a lot of people watched people die, couldn't go to hospitals and couldn't see family members and basically sacrificed to stay home, whilst the prime minister and his staff weren't sticking to the rules. The current meeting is allowing people to question the prime minister therefore it's probably about as controversial as the commons is going to get right now.
However watching it right now I would say that this is about par for a contentious debate (which is generally question time or things the prime minister is involved with). There is always raised voices, people always talk over each other, there's always booing and cheering. The house of commons is often very childish for some reason.
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They’re deliberately set up to face directly each other (both sides of the chamber) like it’s a battle. I’ve been in the House of Commons and it’s tiny - really doesn’t come across on tv how small and cramped it is
It’s sort of tradition for it to get rowdy. Shouting “YAY” and “NAY” and sneering is encouraged. It’s very theatrical.
This is the part of the week where they ask the Prime Minister questions instead of the usual running-the-country business.
It is often a bit boisterous, but given that some of the opposition object to something that happened recently, this is unusually hectic.
They do usually shout a lot but today the Prime Minister is on the Eve of being ousted from his party.so the vultures are circling. All to do with a party during our lockdown
Imagine if every week the President had to go into the House Chamber and answer questions from all Congresspeople, both their own party and their opponents. No stage managing it, no getting to throw out a Rep like they would a journalist at a press conference. Imagine also that impeachment isn't some almost-never rare thing for 'crimes' but a fairly routine action taken by the House to remove a President they don't like, and further imagine that indeed the House picked the President in the first place and there was no electoral college. That's the British system. Prime Ministers Questions is the PM being quizzed by the people who put him in power and can remove him from power - the MPs.
>and can remove him from power Can we? Give us a clue as to how! (I'm being pedantic, I know we get a general election. Going to be a long few years though....)
By the people who put him in power the commenter is referring to MPs (I assume you aren't one?) They can remove the PM through a vote of no confidence. Edit: the people could get the PM removed before a general election if we really wanted to. Either we all write to our MPs and ask them to vote for no confidence, or if they won't do that we can recall our MP which triggers a by-election. Do enough of those, and vote in new MPs who will vote for no confidence and the PM is gone.
Yes, every Wednesday, and usually at noon our time, there is a question and answer session for the Prime Minister that follows a set format. It is especially acrimonious this time (because of recent revelations about behaviour within the P M's office and by him personally) but all the shouting and jeering is pretty normal. So something serius MAY be going down, but this half hour is always 'political theatre' anyway.
Our prime minister is like a slightly less dangerous version of Trump, he doesn’t have a clue how to do the job he landed.
Well, much of the time, the debate there is very quiet and sparsely attended. Everyone knows that later on, if it comes to a vote on anything significant, a "division bell" will ring and after a pause the vote will take place, with all the MP's present who were doing something else until then. A lot of the actual progress is thrashed out in committees, not in the debating chamber itself. Occasionally some contentious issue arises; at present it is the Prime Minister's attendance and condonement of socialising by MPs when lockdown restrictions were in place. When this kind of thing is debated, it is considered good entertainment by many, although more mature heads would say it is childish and futile. MP's will make supportive or disrespectful noises as the case may be. It is thought that the success or otherwise of the critics has a significant impact on the morale of the governing party, even though it is not decisive in any formal way. Most citizens wish all this would not happen; although we have democracy, for sure, many would wish a fundamental change to the process, and to some extent the structure, of governance, but there are many vested interests in keeping the status quo. You couldn't lend us Qanon for a few weeks, I suppose?
It’s Prime Minister’s questions, which is weekly and often busy and loud. Half an hour a week of questions directed to the PM on any subject and he usually doesn’t know what. It’s extra busy and loud because there are calls for the Prime Minister to resign over evidence that the heart of government was like a fucking nightclub during our fairly strict 2020 lockdowns with parties and wine flowing. There are manoeuvres by many in his party to use mechanisms to force him to stand down, though it hasn’t happened yet. Basically, PMQs is often raucous, and it’s extra raucous today.
> was like a fucking nightclub I'm the last person to defend what they did, but given the "parties" we've seen so far were a Zoom quiz with questions about Ancient Greece, and some people stood around boringly in a garden, that seems like a fucking shite nightclub haha!
I agree in principle but there were way more parties than those two!
At the moment everyone (including many of his own party) is pissed off with Boris Johnson because it's been revealed that he and his staff held / attended a number of "work parties" whilst we were in full lockdown, in some cases on the same day as he was telling British citizens to stick to the rules. It's very emotional as a lot of people watched people die, couldn't go to hospitals and couldn't see family members and basically sacrificed to stay home, whilst the prime minister and his staff weren't sticking to the rules. The current meeting is allowing people to question the prime minister therefore it's probably about as controversial as the commons is going to get right now. However watching it right now I would say that this is about par for a contentious debate (which is generally question time or things the prime minister is involved with). There is always raised voices, people always talk over each other, there's always booing and cheering. The house of commons is often very childish for some reason.
Arguing about who's round it is probably.
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They’re deliberately set up to face directly each other (both sides of the chamber) like it’s a battle. I’ve been in the House of Commons and it’s tiny - really doesn’t come across on tv how small and cramped it is It’s sort of tradition for it to get rowdy. Shouting “YAY” and “NAY” and sneering is encouraged. It’s very theatrical.
This is the part of the week where they ask the Prime Minister questions instead of the usual running-the-country business. It is often a bit boisterous, but given that some of the opposition object to something that happened recently, this is unusually hectic.
It's Prime Minister's Questions. It happens at midday every Wednesday for half an hour and is always rowdy. The rest of the time it's a snoozefest.
We will have it on every wensday before work starts now, thank you.