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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
PMQ's has been that way as long as I can remember, and thats going back a long way now to Ted Heaths era and before. PMQ's is a scripted affair. The government is given the questions that will be asked prior to the event in order to prepare properly.
Again, I say people are missing the point. Whatever faults there are with the current PMQ's, it is the democratic process of accountabilty. If it needs reform, thats another debate. My point, and I shall make it for the last time  is that live TV debates are not part of the democratic process, and the reason they are being held before the official campaign start date is if they were during campaigning they would need to conform with guidelines from the electoral standards commission, at the moment, they don't. |
That is true to a point but I have been watching recently old clips of Margaret Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown at PMQs and they did answer the relevant points far more and usually sticking to the topic in hand too,than this PM.