Soldiers Deaths being read out in PMQ's

[rov1200]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8147034.stm

With the number of soldiers being killed in Afghanistan and rising weekly what is the limit for the names to be read out by Brown, etc at PMQs on Wednesdays? So far they have coped.

[sqad617]

rov......what a waste of time....all three leaders reading out deaths during active service and in my opinion with a hint of autonomism.

I emailed Andrew Neil on the BBC2 programme Daily Politics, on that very topic, but got no reply.

[Gromit]

If they didn't read out the names of those killed, there would be a lot more people complaining that they didn't care.

I would have thought that there is no limit. The MOD said that the fighting was in a new phase and warned that there would be an increase in fatalities, and so it has proved to be.

[paraffin]

Never mind reading their names out, there should be at least one Government minister and their opposition counterparts waiting at RAF Lyneham every time a dead serviceman's body is brought back.

[pastafreak]

I seem to remember that during the Vietnam War,the days fatalities were printed daily......let's hope it does not come to that.

[rov1200]

As the numbers go up, the public get more restive and the 1/2 hor PMQs look likely to hog the whole period. Someone once said its not the names that matters but the numbers.