I am sure that pretty much all of us are familiar with what happens in school when the teacher leaves the room on a Friday afternoon and a whole class full of rebellious children start kicking up fuss. Shouting, throwing insults around, and generally making a lot of unnecessary noise.
When watching “PM Questions” at lunchtime today, it occurred to me (and probably not for the first time) that our politicians in parliament act pretty much like a bunch of unruly school kids. Let us look at some of the examples of boorish behaviour :-
- Calling the leader of the opposition an “idiot” (for which David Cameron was spanked for and forced to retract).
- Growling with approval during speeches.
- Shouting dissent during speeches.
This may be the sort of behaviour expected during an Oxbridge debate, but most of us have not been unfortunate to take part in such a thing, and this sort of behaviour of our representatives is disgusting.
It has been suggested before that PMQs needs reform, but with no obvious change to the behaviour seen. Perhaps those MPs who behave this way should be made aware that most of us are only aware of how they behave from their behaviour at the weekly PMQs ?