Also - why the fuck do we still have PMQs in 2024? Who is it serving? Hold the PM to account by all means, sit them down in front of a parliamentary committee every week for a couple of hours, whack it on TV or whatever. This weekly spectacle of each side trotting out rehearsed zingers that only resonate with lobby correspondents, parliamentary sketch writers and the other Westminster nerds is just bullshit political theatre that fills a couple of hours of Sky News airtime every Wednesday and achieves fuck all else. The worst kind of Oxbridge debating society rubbish.
Also - why the fuck do we still have PMQs in 2024? Who is it serving? Hold the PM to account by all means, sit them down in front of a parliamentary committee every week for a couple of hours, whack it on TV or whatever. This weekly spectacle of each side trotting out rehearsed zingers that only resonate with lobby correspondents, parliamentary sketch writers and the other Westminster nerds is just bullshit political theatre that fills a couple of hours of Sky News airtime every Wednesday and achieves fuck all else. The worst kind of Oxbridge debating society rubbish.
I genuinely don’t get the joke Sunak was trying to make. Either way, he does not come across well at all, grinning his way through lines like that. Whether or not you think it’s acceptable fodder for jokes, it just doesn’t seem like a natural fit for him.
I wouldn’t open with itThink he was (poorly) trying to reference Starmers previous U turns inc going from ‘a woman is a female adult’ to his more recent comment that 99.9% of women haven’t got a penis. Hence the 99% of u turn comment. I don’t think it was anti trans so much as inappropriate considering the audience and he should apologise for any offence caused
Think he was (poorly) trying to reference Starmers previous U turns inc going from ‘a woman is a female adult’ to his more recent comment that 99.9% of women haven’t got a penis. Hence the 99% of u turn comment. I don’t think it was anti trans so much as inappropriate considering the audience and he should apologise for any offence caused
Agree with the comments about PMQs being just a waste of time with poorly written gags and usually very few, if any, answers to questions on the most pressing issues of the day
Seems odd to pretend there isn’t a political dimension to the murder when the victim’s mother is sitting in parliament and has asked to meet with the leader of the opposition.It wasn’t anti trans just a not funny joke and let’s be honest it was Starmer who referenced the murder and tried to make political capital out of it.
PMQ achieves nothing - it’s just grandstanding pantomime
Seems odd to pretend there isn’t a political dimension to the murder when the victim’s mother is sitting in parliament and has asked to meet with the leader of the opposition.
Seems odd to pretend there isn’t a political dimension to the murder when the victim’s mother is sitting in parliament and has asked to meet with the leader of the opposition.
Yes Starmer is really the one to point the finger at for Sunak using a trans attack line in front of Brianna Ghey's mother. Christ.
It’s not a trans attack
And?It seems she wasn’t even in the public gallery at the time
Starmer didn’t say anything about the murder today except to pay tribute to Esther Ghey’s bravery - that’s really worse in your eyes?The victims mother blames social media access TBF. I think the joke was poor and the attempt to use a dead kid as a wedge on it even more so TBH.
And?
Starmer didn’t say anything about the murder today except to pay tribute to Esther Ghey’s bravery - that’s really worse in your eyes?
I’m not talking about Starmer. More the glee many have jumping on this TBH.
Attack. Jibe. Joke. Whatever you want to call it then.
To use it just moments after Starmer praised Brianna's mother and said she was here to today is 1, incredibly fucking stupid and 2, incredibly fucking insensitive.
Point of orderIt’s a comment aimed at Starmers U Turning and a reference to his “99% of women have a penis”
For the record 100% have
Point of order
Is that really what Starmer said?Im sorry?
Is that really what Starmer said?
That’s not what he said either! Bit slow on the uptake today, big night last night?Sigh 99.9% if you must
That’s not what he said either! Bit slow on the uptake today, big night last night?
I don't know if that's aimed at me but I can assure that, for me anyway, it's certainly not glee! Contempt and disgust mainly.
No! As always on this thread I’ve just been through Twitter and am talking mostly about what I see there. Dawn Butler and a few others making this about the murder. I honestly think Sunak will be happy that the conversation is out there again and lots of Labour MPs will be falling over themselves to look silly in public.
Pick your battles I say. And the what is a woman battle isn’t one Labour can win. So it feels like faux outrage and using the fact the mum was there to make it toxic.
It’s crazy, voderman calling for him to resign. I’m all for people saying it was insensitive under the circumstances and call for an apology but it’s all a bit OTT
Sunak is just not a ‘politician’
Sigh 99.9% if you must
And it is a legitimate debate - trans “women” should not share open facilities with women unless the women consent to it
Sunak is just not a ‘politician’
No he’s not. He’s trying to be nasty and it just doesn’t work anyway. His best bet was nerdy wonky stable guy but then he loses to RefUK on the right and the actual record of the Tories.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?