Speaker nods towards large changes to Parliament's Question Time

<<When he was Speaker, Lockwood Smith reportedly came to the conclusion that answer actually meant answer, and tried to enforce that rule. It improved Question Time markedly. Sadly, his tenure as Speaker was cut short when the then Prime Minister found him a different role, as High Commissioner to London.>>

Was he moved because he forced the government to answer the question?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thehouse/568495/speaker-nods-towards-large-changes-to-parliament-s-question-time

Jim Chalmers is a notorious dispatch box thumper, but what is he doing with his hands now? #auspol #qt #questiontime https://www.youtube.com/live/vIRAOw0VMnY?si=haZlHydcx9TOCFbF&t=20713

Gardeners urged to write with UV pen on flowers or risk ‘£300 gamble’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1358703/gardeners-urged-to-write-with-uv-pen-on-flowers-or-risk-300-gamble/ #bbc #burglary #countryfile #flowers #garden #gardener #gardening #HouseInsurance #JamesWong #QuestionTime

Where is this #QuestionTime from tonight?

Just saw this on Bluesky. BBC's Question Time is in Scotland tonight. Scotland doesn't have any Reform MPs or MSPs, so I guess they'll have someone from the Greens on... no, they've got someone on from Reform. Of course they have.

Really shallow debate on mental health services on #QuestionTime

Need to recognise effect of 40 years of small government neoliberalism on the possibility of a state funded #NHS - if the British electorate will keep electing these people we probably need to look more at continental-style insurance schemes instead

Watching #QuestionTime from two weeks ago. Many issues raised with #wealthTaxes - principally capital flight, collection, and reduced investment when wealth is taxed. The figures from Adam Smith Institute on rich leaving UK due to taxes quoted.

I’d be interested to know the detail from wealth tax advocates such as Richard Murphy & Gary Stevenson to address these criticisms.

#GarysEconomics on on #QuestionTime with #analysis and #FactChecking from #CurtisDaly and #SarahDallal from #TurnLeft

#press #news
https://youtu.be/RmABGydLNWg?si=NUui3pkBgEXBfT-P

#GarysEconomics on on #QuestionTime with #analysis and #FactChecking from #CurtisDaly and #SarahDallal from #TurnLeft

#press #news
https://youtu.be/RmABGydLNWg?si=NUui3pkBgEXBfT-P

Stircrazypost knee surgery, stumbled on a #QuestionTime clip debating rote learning. PeterHitchens recited Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, sparking memories of Chaucer, Eliot, Dylan, and even Latin mass. Today, inspired by ‘blue remembered hills,’ we drove to the Longmynd. #Poetry lives in us, unforced. #CulturalHeritage"

In case you missed it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUZFk8OkQG0

#NoJusticeMTG 3days ago

#QuestionTime in March 2025

Can you guess what gender my mic is? Let me know in the comments

https://artists.landr.com/GiveMeYourLove

Love it. “What are you doing for mental health? It is 18 weeks to see someone! That is reediculuss”

What’s “reediculuss” there is that you don’t know it’s ridiculous. Up there with def-in-ate-lay. Not even an ‘a’ in the word but it’s the most emphasised vowel. #QuestionTime

As Billy Connolly said (paraphrased): “Anybody who shows a desire to be an MP, should be stopped from becoming an MP”
Utterly self-serving, selfish, out of touch bastards. Every single one. #QuestionTime

There I’ve gone and watched #QuestionTime for the first time in ages, and I am fucking raging. These cunts. Labour are actually worse than the Tories, it’s mental.

Question time Camera: Piantedosi e Urso rispondono su sicurezza e industria https://www.liberoreporter.it/2024/12/flash/question-time-camera-piantedosi-e-urso-rispondono-su-sicurezza-e-industria.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #QuestionTime #CameraDeiDeputati #SicurezzaPubblica #PoliticheIndustriali #MatteoPiantedosi

#BBCQT has been pretty good tonight. It usually is a lot better when big important things are going on as with this assisted dying bill, but I'm surprised at even Jacob Rees-Mogg seeming human-like tonight.

Next week Alistair Campbell will be on opposite Nigel Farage enjoying his eleven thousandth outing on the show, so I expect it'll be much worse.

Jacoby Rees-Moggy speaking on #QuestionTime about bringing immigration figures down Lisa Nandy is noding her empty head in agreement, and Rory Stewart is shaking his in disbelief

funny old world, isn't it

#auspol #dutton #questiontime #trump
Dutton's address in Question Time to the house re Trump's win was a masterclass in toadying and fawning. Albo was respectful and diplomatic; Dutton was carefully placing a kiss on Trump's arse.