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** Will be phrased as "Prime Minister, could you please detail in length why you are so awesome?" Or something similar. |
** Will be phrased as "Prime Minister, could you please detail in length why you are so awesome?" Or something similar. |
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* General rowdiness, cat calls etc. A lot fewer than there were, due to PMQs being moved a few years ago to before lunch (where many MPs would have a pint or two). |
* General rowdiness, cat calls etc. A lot fewer than there were, due to PMQs being moved a few years ago to before lunch (where many MPs would have a pint or two). |
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⚫ | It's broadcast on [[BBC 2]] (although they won't necessarily show the whole thing), [[Political Programmes|BBC Parliament]], BBC News 24, Sky News and [[Political Programmes|C-SPAN]]. Has been the subject of no small amount of envy from American political junkies, who would enjoy watching an American President answer questions from the opposition. American Presidential candidate John McCain proposed a "President's Question Time" in 2008, but the idea went nowhere. |
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==Live-Action TV== |
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* [[Saturday Night Live]] ran a sketch with [[Mike Myers]] (guest hosting at this point) playing Tony Blair. One MP (played by [[Will Farrell]]) repeatedly pressed the prime minister on his plans to deal with the pending break-up of the band Oasis and one Irish MP (played by Colin Quinn) grew so agitated (mostly by the PM's rebuttals of his questions being little more than "alcoholic Irish" jokes) he started asking questions like "Will the prime minister be driving his usual car home tonight" and "Would the prime minister mind holding this unmarked package for a few hours?" |
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' ran a sketch with [[Mike Myers]] (guest hosting at this point) playing Tony Blair. One MP (played by [[Will Farrell]]) repeatedly pressed the prime minister on his plans to deal with the pending break-up of the band Oasis and one Irish MP (played by Colin Quinn) grew so agitated (mostly by the PM's rebuttals of his questions being little more than "alcoholic Irish" jokes) he started asking questions like "Will the prime minister be driving his usual car home tonight" and "Would the prime minister mind holding this unmarked package for a few hours?" |
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** They did this skit a second time, with guest host [[Matthew Broderick]] playing Blair. Most of the jokes were recycled from the first sketch, except that Farrell's character had moved from an obsession with Oasis to an obsession with ''[[Teletubbies]]''. |
** They did this skit a second time, with guest host [[Matthew Broderick]] playing Blair. Most of the jokes were recycled from the first sketch, except that Farrell's character had moved from an obsession with Oasis to an obsession with ''[[Teletubbies]]''. |
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==Real Life== |
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⚫ | * In fiction, the place will often be far too empty. In [[Real Life]], the Commons Chamber (which only has seats for 430 out of the c.650 Members anyway) is always standing room only. At all other times the chamber will be mostly empty unless there is an important vote, even for debates on vital issues. Sad, but true. It's a good thing when they had to rebuild the chamber following bomb damage in [[World War II]] that they went with the old (too small) design, as one of the reasons Churchill for one pressed for keeping the old style (besides tradition) was that if there were seats for everyone most debates would take place with less than a quarter of the space filled. |
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