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David O'Day

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“I would greatly appreciate it if Her Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition would stop doing his constitutional duty”
He is really bad at this.

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shmmeee

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Just following on Twitter, I see they've bussed in some MPs to make noises behind Johnson this week.
 

chiefdave

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Don’t think promising 25k track and tracers is a bad thing by the end of the month, unless you want to put a negative spin on it
Are you confident they will actually achieve that? Remember Hancock promising to “test 100,000 people per day” by the end of April? Here's the figures for May:
1 - 73.191
2 - 63,667
3 - 56,397
4 - 62,956
5 - 69,839
6 - 57,006
7 - 65,092
8 - 67,443
9 - 63,339
10 - 64,362
11 - 65,337
12 - 60,410
13 - 61,741
14 - 71,644
15 - 69,590
16 - 78,537
17 - 76,684
18 - 67,409
Still not close to the 100,000 a day let alone the 200,000 a day Johnson promised by the end of May.

He gives the impression he is making it up as he goes along, giving any answer that will take the pressure off him. Today he has promised huge pay rises to NHS staff despite the Treasury talking about public sector pay freezes, which one do we believe?
 

chiefdave

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Just following on Twitter, I see they've bussed in some MPs to make noises behind Johnson this week.
That was clearly the instruction and Johnson had obviously been prepped for it. He was giving his answers and building up to the rabble shouting down Starmer. Only problem was there wasn't enough of them in there for it to be in the slightest bit effective.

Its very obvious why JRM is so desperate to have the chamber full for PMQs.
 

Ring Of Steel

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James O’Brien is calling it a score draw.

To be perfectly honest, take your sides out of it and the whole spectacle is embarrassing, these people are supposed to be leading & directing 67m people, and the whole lot of them are immature twats who can't even talk without childish bickering, yelling and acting like 7 yr olds.

The whole system is just broke, it probably makes for great TV but its a complete shambles.
 

fernandopartridge

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Don’t think promising 25k track and tracers is a bad thing by the end of the month, unless you want to put a negative spin on it

It isn't bad, it is utterly pathetic. It is 3 months late. It offers nothing like the capacity needed now given the residual rate of infection in the community. If it had been in place by the end of Feb it might have been so much better.
 

David O'Day

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James O’Brien is calling it a score draw.
Well is usually wrong. He's the man who thought that ridiculing leaves with genuine fears was n anyway a gofd idea.

General opinion seems that Starmer won again.

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David O'Day

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It isn't bad, it is utterly pathetic. It is 3 months late. It offers nothing like the capacity needed now given the residual rate of infection in the community. If it had been in place by the end of Feb it might have been so much better.
Yep if we had sent the money at the start we could be so much be so much better off

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shmmeee

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To be perfectly honest, take your sides out of it and the whole spectacle is embarrassing, these people are supposed to be leading & directing 67m people, and the whole lot of them are immature twats who can't even talk without childish bickering, yelling and acting like 7 yr olds.

The whole system is just broke, it probably makes for great TV but its a complete shambles.

PMQs isn’t where the country gets run though. It’s weekly political entertainment/theatre. The actual scrutiny happens in select committees.

I agree it’s a silly excess, same as the palava around opening of parliament and other traditions.
 

shmmeee

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Yes, O'Brien is a twat. He spent a long time rubbishing the only viable opposition before the election and now shows buyer's remorse afterwards. Stupid c**t.

Oh yeah he’s a massive twat. Just happened to be the first person I saw on Twitter calling a “win”.
 

Ring Of Steel

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PMQs isn’t where the country gets run though. It’s weekly political entertainment/theatre. The actual scrutiny happens in select committees.

I agree it’s a silly excess, same as the palava around opening of parliament and other traditions.

Yeah you're right- its all pointless to me. Its all a bit Jerry Springer/ Jeremy Kyle & these are supposed to be the ones setting the example, its pathetic.

Having said that, if they started doing lie detector & paternity tests live from PMQ, that would certainly be worth tuning in for- Boris would definitely be crying off.
 

Grendel

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Yeah you're right- its all pointless to me. Its all a bit Jerry Springer/ Jeremy Kyle & these are supposed to be the ones setting the example, its pathetic.

Having said that, if they started doing lie detector & paternity tests live from PMQ, that would certainly be worth tuning in for- Boris would definitely be crying off.

Mr Macron certainly would in France - “now what was the relationship with your body guard”
 

hill83

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Mr Macron certainly would in France - “now what was the relationship with your body guard”

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Brighton Sky Blue

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Ignoring actual content, I thought Johnson generally kept his shit together better and Starmer stumbled in delivery a bit today. The weeks training paid off.

Still really irritating fluff questions being asked though, one by an MP who couldn't stop smirking as she asked it-you're a safe seat Tory MP not a fricking celebrity
 

David O'Day

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PMQs isn’t where the country gets run though. It’s weekly political entertainment/theatre. The actual scrutiny happens in select committees.

I agree it’s a silly excess, same as the palava around opening of parliament and other traditions.
It has it's uses. Boris didn't realise he was being used so Labour could launch an attack on increasing the nhs surcharge without exempting NHS employees which.means the are charging foreign born nhs staff even more to us the nhs they work for.



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wingy

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Not it's not it's fucking flannel

As you won't properly engage

Lets talk about the nhs carers, porters and cleaners who died but are being left out of the proposed bereavement payment plans?

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That scheme was riddled with holes the day it was announced .

Edit:- Read the small print
 
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