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When will PMQs be abolished? It’s total horseshit (feddit.uk)

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Leaving aside the squeaky indignations of our inadequate prime minister, and the frankly boring questions by the opposition leader. what exactly is the purpose of this braying, deluded clown show? We don’t get anything of use, we don’t get anything except question avoidance and grandstanding followed by someone shouting ‘more’ so that others nearby will also make the same noise. As if shouting a noise makes the point rather than the brain of the person supposed to be in charge.

I can switch it off but I also don’t understand what the actual use of this excercise is.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I think it is important that it happens, even though it is a fair wedge of nonsense most weeks. The reason for that is the alternative isn’t “better holding of the government to account”. If PMQs was cancelled, nothing better would replace it. And we’d end up in a situation similar to the USA, where the executive can simply choose not to be in a room with dissenting voices.

Do you think someone like Trump would even choose to try govern when every week he was forced to sit in a room with every member of the opposition and answer questions, effectively under oath, as to why he was governing so terribly? Followed by all the news networks showing clips of him being OWNED or BLASTED or whatever all-caps word they’re using for headlines this week?