Are You Ashamed Of The Way The Commons Behaved Yesterday?

[Bobbisox1]

Geoffrey Cox,attorney general,Barry Sheerman looked like he’d bust a gut,what happened to the waving of papers and nodding and bleating like sheep that we’ve been used to?
Veins popping out their temples, Boris accused of going too far

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[naomi24]

I'm ashamed of the way the Commons has behaved for the past three plus years.

[ToraToraTora]

no not really, it's the death throws of the VBQC knowing they have lost.

[Bobbisox1]

There’s a debate going on on Jeremy Vine where people are nit picking because he ( Boris) used the word Humbug, how ridiculous is that ?.

[dannyk13]

Overgrown schoolboys allowed to carry on by the obnoxious speaker.

[ToraToraTora]

in chess terms what we have here is zugswang, the VBQC are on top but any move they make helps the government. So oddly enough no VONC/GE etc will be forthcomming. The PM can simply run the clock down.

[ichkeria]

Not ashamed at all.
It was very entertaining but also worrying that passions have been stirred - deliberately in my view - by a government which seems to be trying to pit parliament against people.
We shouldn’t fall into their trap.

[david small]

Internationally declared incompetence.

[cassa333]

Embarrassed for some of the four over emotional outrage some showed but not ashamed.

Parliament should be ashamed of the way it has acted counter to the referendum result for the past three years.

But they aren’t and won’t be. So the faux outrage will carry on.

[anneasquith]

I’m not ashamed, but there was an air of menacing in the parliament yesterday.

[ichkeria]

Paula Sheriff made a plea for the PM not to use language like “surrender” and “betrayal” when this is picked up by some in her heavily leave-voting constituency and used in threats against her and others. He could at least have made some sort of retraction but instead responded with words like “humbug” which I think in context was pretty disappointing, and simply got everyone even more fired up. He was plainly a very angry man - after all his week in New York rubbing shoulders with the world’s leaders had been cut short by grotty old “girly swots” Joanna Cherry, Gina Miller and Wendy Hale. But it’s hard not to reckon it was also partly at least calculated to pour oil on the flames.

[naomi24]

I’m happy for him to use word like ‘humbug’. It is humbug.

[ichkeria]

John Bercow was actually trying to calm people down.
If you were watching you’d have seen that.
But what was anyone expecting, frankly? A teddy bears’ picnic?

[naomi24]

//John Bercow was actually trying to calm people down. //

Makes a change from him trying to stir it up.

[dannyk13]

Ich, I did watch it and the speaker did little to calm things down.

[-SharonA-]

Yes! It is no laughing matter, but amused me to see how the PM deflected every question.

[teacake44]

No, its always like that in nursery school, especially first day back.

[Sqad]

Not at all....good TV viewing....sheer pantomime with staring performances from Geoffrey Cox and Barry Sheerman which was well rehearsed and pre meditated.
Supporting performances by the P.M and Speaker.
The Oscar must go to the hysterical woman in black....can't remember her name in the emotional defense of Jo Cox.
Fabulous.

[teacake44]

I think Boris is just practicing leaving, he left Luxembourg, and then Parliament last night.

[jim360]

Any examples of the Speaker trying to stir it up? As far as I can recall, the only time that may count is when he protested against the prorogation, and events since have proven him to be absolutely correct to do so.

During the PM's statement last night he intervened several times to say that "The Prime Minister must be heard", even in spite of the fact that Johnson had nothing interesting to say.

[Bobbisox1]

That would be Paula Sherriff sqad, ,she did some gurning didn’t she?