The Hooray Henries Are Back !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35651049

Perhaps they never went away !

Instead of facing up to the mess that the NHS is in, the Tories descend into childish schoolboy behaviour. Yah-boo politics, at its worst.

On the eve of yet another strike by Doctors, shouldn't the PM and his party at least try to act as adults ?

[Hopkirk]

It's not just the Tories who act like immature brats in the House of Commons.

[naomi24]

Perhaps Mikey turns the sound down when his lot are talking.

[andy-hughes]

I have to say that I have every sympathy with Mr Cameron and Mr Corbyn and their daily wrangles across the dispatch box.

As veterans of heated debate in the News section, we have both observed how easy it is to be drawn into increasingly childish and pointless exchanges with people who are also old enough to know better.

Indeed, it is with astonishing ease that one can read a post, and be hammering out an ill-thought-out and eventually regrettable response as fast as one’s fingers can type!

I speak with rueful experience of such a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction because I have done it myself many many times – and I only do it on here, in print, and free of charge!

If I was in the position of the Honourable and Right Honourable ladies and gentlemen of the House, who do this for a living, and a rather well-paid one at that – I shudder to think how many times I would arouse the censure of Mr Speaker for letting my mouth run away with me – which would be even faster than my fingers do here!!!

[Prudie]

You can't have ever listened to broadcasts if you think it's Just the Tories, they all do it and always have.

[agchristie]

It really must irk much of the public when they see the type of exchanges witnessed today.

All sides are guilty of it. With so many important issues facing MP's today of a serious nature, the last thing people want to see and hear is the trivial, childish attitude on display.

Not a good example especially to the youth of today who are largely disengaged with politics.

It's like AB really, debating opposite views that ends up in personal attacks!

[Tilly2]

I think they all enjoy it. It must be the best part of the day for some of them.

[ichkeria]

I understand Cameron was rattled but his remarks about Corbyn's suits and the national anthem were a bit old hat (so to speak)
At least the Tory boo boys gave Corbyn time to think of a dignified response by the time they piped down

[DTCwordfan]

Jeremy Corbyn thoroughly deserved it - insulting the PMs mother is not on and he deserved the double barrel response, not least as it's true. Really, the Labour Party deserve better - where is t'other Miliband?

[Zacs-Master]

The Doctors in question should try to act like adults. They are part of a very privelidged sphere of work and should have patient care at their very core. Making patients spend their families suffer the psychological upheaval of having operations cancelled makes my blood boil and should be an anathema to them.

[DTCwordfan]

ps - how many times has andy-h been censured and banned from the House of AB for his foul-mouthed rants?

[DTCwordfan]

telling me, divebuddy - a man with 2 Es at A-level taking on an Oxbridge 1st in PPE, it's not fair and it shows.

[Baldric]

What we need to remember is that in the blinkered world of the OPer
Labore can do no wrong!

[Togo]

Mikey knows that they all act like schoolkids, non more so than Blair or even Bevan. But it gives him an opportunity to use what he sees as a clever label and claim it for his own use. It sounds very much like a phrase of British origin - possibly from the pen of P. G. Wodehouse. In fact it's an American phrase, coined by Damon Runyon in 1936.

[ichkeria]

Did Corbyn insult the PM's mother? I don't think he did, did he? Someone shouted out 'ask your mother' at him, which was a pretty understandable jibe given the news about her petitioning against Tory cuts
Anyway, a bit of knockabout : we love it don't we? This is what British sovereignty of all about isn't it. The mother of all rows in the mother of all parliaments etc

[ToraToraTora]

your boy took another kicking mikey.

[andy-hughes]

DTC - //ps - how many times has andy-h been censured and banned from the House of AB for his foul-mouthed rants? //

I have never, and would never be 'foul-mouthed' on AB.

I have been censured a number of times, and had posts removed.

Contrary to popular belief - from Lord knows where! - I do not enjoy special privileges, I am not connected to the Editorial Team, except as a Moderator, which appears to be common knowledge now, I have never suspended anyone, in fact, I am subject to the same rules, regulations, and treatments as everyone else on here.

I hope that clears up any misunderstanding (again!)

[ichkeria]

Corbyn wasn't even speaking before! Cameron just turned on him as an easy target as he couldn't think of a suitable response to a heckle he could easily have ignored

[DTCwordfan]

Christ, and pray to him, the case of irony is lost on him....Bless me, goodlife, for I have sinned.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - //Making patients spend their families suffer the psychological upheaval of having operations cancelled makes my blood boil and should be an anathema to them. //

What makes you think it isn't?

By definition, every single junior doctor has a brain, a heart and a conscious desire to help people - bigger than most of the population.

So it would be facile to assume that they ever take this step lightly, and with a great deal of heart-searching and anguish.

Indeed, their last-resort action is a measure of the frustration and futility of trying to negotiate with a government that makes a mockery of the concept my imposing a contract because it failed to get its own way.

My sympathy lies entirely with the doctors, and on their strike says, I shall be hooting my car horn loud and long as I drive past their picket lines.