PMQ 's

Cor, you couldn’t get his autograph could you..?
It’d mean a lot ot someone I know.
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I honestly have had no contact with him for many years, so I’m not sure how successful I’d be. Not meaning to pass the buck as ’twere but usually artistes agents will send out signed photos on request. I’ll see what I can do….

Cor, you couldn’t get his autograph could you..?
It’d mean a lot ot someone I know.
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Do you know him?

Used to – a while back.

Not sure that Patrick would take that as a compliment….!;):D

Do you know him?

Best bit of theatre I’d been to since I saw Patrick Stewart in ‘The Tempest’.
Happy days.
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Not sure that Patrick would take that as a compliment….!;):D

I actually attended PMQ’s once.
I knew someone who worked there and he got me two tickets, not to sit in the public bit but a gallery for visiting foreign diplomats. I actually sat next to a group of ‘important’ gentlemen from the middle east.
Anyway, it’s all scripted. You get the list of questions to be asked in advance. Ten minutes before it started, John Prescott was making a grinding speech about something or other–local government I think, to a largely empty room, and then bang on the nail of noon in sweeps Blair like the entrance of the Queen of Sheba followed by the rest of the assorted hoard. Then it kicks off and then, bang on the nail of thirty minutes, Blair f*cks off and the place empties.
Then there was an endless debate (I think about 800 years) about Ulster–with the usual assorted micks in attendance–Trimble, Paisley etc.
Me and my mate endured about ten minutes of that and then went to find lunch in a pub.
Still, it was an education, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome resigned from the leadership of the Tories the following day.
The p*ssed Jock was leader of the Meaningless Party and to be honest and despite the fact I’d like to see Blair publicly crucified (yes complete with nails and the thing the Romans used to shove up the victims kazoo) he cut IBS and the jock to ribbons–quite a nasty piece of work up close and personal I would say.
Best bit of theatre I’d been to since I saw Patrick Stewart in ‘The Tempest’.
Happy days.
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Chop down the number of MP’s dramatically i.e 50%+ and offer pay equivalent to a mid level CEO

Agreed. And of course 50, not enough but a start and better than none at all, were due for the chop until Clegg had his hissy fit and took his ball away.

Pay peanuts…get monkeys…expect inane chattering (especially at PMQs).

Only way to stop it and get something more palatable as a parliamentry democracy is to cull the herd. Chop down the number of MP’s dramatically i.e 50%+ and offer pay equivalent to a mid level CEO, as opposed to that of a fair-middlin plumber, to get the right kind of candidate more consistently in the surgery’s.

Radio 5 in the background – best place for it!;)

It’s radio 5 as well so it was on in the background

I’ve got no time for any of ’em. None of ’em are worthy of my time, nor my attention. I haven’t watched PMQs for very many years.

Couldn’t agree more. The rot started when cameras were allowed in and then when the Blair shower changed it from 2 x 15mins to 1 x 30mins it became a farce and after a fee sessions I stopped listening.