20-12-18, 09:23 PM
(20-12-18, 12:10 PM)mtread link Wrote:Quote: Utterly dismayed by the rabble in the House of Commons yesterday, howling, braying, childish behaviour over the utterance of a couple of words. In ordinary life, all of us would have replied with a similar comment and moved on. Not this fucking useless shower of gnats piss. They make headline news out of it. Those ruddy foreigners must be pissing themselves at usTotally agree. The whole set up is archaic and confrontational. Facing each other. Voting by walking through separate 'lobbies'. Blackrod etc. History and ceremony is one thing, but about time they migrated out of that ridiculous building into something more suitable for a modern democratic society.
Yes. But its not just the buildings ans sytem, its the MPs too. To be elected, you must belong to one of the two main parties, the people dont want to elect independents. That may be the system since parliament raised the cost of standing to £10k. Got to be the only workplace in the UK with subsidised bars on the premises, and its normal to turn up for work bladdered