Poor Menzies is still getting a hard time in PMQs, with Labour and the Conservatives essentially putting snipers on the roof to try and take him out with a well-timed heckle before he can finish his first few sentences. For the second time in as many months, he was left standing blushing in the middle of the Commons as the majority of the house roared with laughter. That’s why I didn’t vote for him…
What with the red team and the blue team being so in love with one another at the moment, sharing policies, voting preference, and narcissistic tendencies, this whole debate about which side of the fence Ming will fall down onto should there be a hung parliament is getting more and more redundant.
It’ll be Gordon and Flash snuggled up together, with Tony making the cocoa, and Prescott’s head mounted on the wall. Ming will be out in the cold.
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Minger was so thrown this week by a well aimed heckle that he almost sat down after the preamble and before he’d actually asked his first question. This gem can still be enjoyed from the BBC Parliament web site (about 8 minutes in). It’s also well worth watching just to see the LibDems struggling not to laugh at Eric Forth’s jibe……
Hughes Views said this on March 18th, 2006 at 3:21 am
Oh yes, lets all feel sorry for Ming. Just because he doesn’t know what a debate is, or how to talk to more than one person at a time. And even then I’d guess he struggles.
Considering how many wrinkles he has you’ll think he’d have a thicker skin.
Could he have chosen a more inappropriate career for himself?
dr.freling said this on March 18th, 2006 at 3:28 am
I have to say that he has been good at public speaking in the few times I’ve seen him in person. PMQs just isn’t his thing, and the members have voted him into performing in it every week for the next few years - bad judgement in my opinion.
Yellow Baboon said this on March 18th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Does PMQ matter to anyone outside the village?
TheVoleStrangler said this on March 18th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Things like PMQs are what piss me off about politicians and politics. For far too many of the besuited elite - politics is nothing more than a game. Just for once it would be nice people took the time to answer questions honestly rather than taking every speaking opportunity as an excuse to play to their own benches and denigrate the opposition. No wonder so many in the population don’t bother engaging with politics.
Steve said this on March 20th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
About two years ago an American intern was working in our office was totally amazed at the amount of scrutiny in the UK system. He found it unbelievable that the Prime Minister, and ministers answered questions at all. Considering the highly formalised system of committees used in America. We are not to bad. So maybe Steve need to crawl back under his half assed Guardian-reading middle-class petty bourgeois rock and let the professional politicians get on with the real work, and give armchair poniification a miss.
Grand Mufti-Botitshiva Troughtwaxer the forth said this on March 23rd, 2006 at 8:48 pm
So just because an American intern was impressed by PM’s Qs, Steve should curl up under a rock?
“Winning” at PM’s Qs isn’t real work, even for a politician - Hague did it every week for 2 years and a fat lot of good it did him.
dave heasman said this on March 24th, 2006 at 7:56 am