West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Lincoln on November 25, 2005, 05:58:42 PM
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Once in a while they show this on the channel CPAC here in Canada. I can't believe how respectable British politicians are to each other, at least compared to here. There's a bit of ruckus that I saw, but overall it was extremely civil. Are all Brits this polite? I always heard that stereotype.
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yea they always have to say the 'honerable' member/gentlemen/friend and they are not allowed to directly accuse anyone of lying. i love watching PMQs its quality they get some heated debates going
but no were not all that polite, but parliament is very traditional not much has changed in the last 4 hundred years or so.....
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yea they always have to say the 'honerable' member/gentlemen/friend and they are not allowed to directly accuse anyone of lying. i love watching PMQs its quality they get some heated debates going
Well we do that in Canada too, the whole Honourable thing, followed by member or colleage. But we have lots of heckling between the parties and harsh language. The other day a Minister was called a "sleazebag", I never heard anything remotely that bad in your Parliament.
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yea u'd probably get thrown out of parliament for saying that, but we do get heckleing it just gone about in a different manner
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yea u'd probably get thrown out of parliament for saying that, but we do get heckleing it just gone about in a different manner
Usually folks would get thrown out, but over the last year and a half shit's gone crazy, it might be because we have a minority government.
Does Britain get many of those?
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no we always have a majority government but the ruling party labour have a small majority this time round only 66 or something which is much less in real terms because they have serial rebels which are threatening nearly every policy the government is putting forward, so labour have been counting on the support of conservatives for certain things but they aren't playing ball, hence the terroism defeat recently
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no we always have a majority government but the ruling party labour have a small majority this time round only 66 or something which is much less in real terms because they have serial rebels which are threatening nearly every policy the government is putting forward, so labour have been counting on the support of conservatives for certain things but they aren't playing ball, hence the terroism defeat recently
How many seats do you have? 66 would be a HUGE majority here. We only have 308 members.
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lol wtf i wanna catch this on tv ill take a look if its played on bbc or smtg
no way in france they talk this way
well uk is a ''kingdom'' so im not really surprise but the way u tell this look like they exagerate a lil bit on the terms ...that might be funny for non english ppl to watch this
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lol wtf i wanna catch this on tv ill take a look if its played on bbc or smtg
no way in france they talk this way
well uk is a ''kingdom'' so im not really surprise but the way u tell this look like they exagerate a lil bit on the terms ...that might be funny for non english ppl to watch this
Does France have a Parliament?
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646 seats but then the speaker and the 3 deputees don't normaly vote, and shin fien never take up their seats.
forknox its shown on bbc parliament and sometimes bbc2 plus its shown on the bbc website.
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646 seats but then the speaker and the 3 deputees don't normaly vote, and shin fien never take up their seats.
Cool, thanks. That's a lot of seats.
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in australia they throw fosters cans at eachother... un-civilized criminals :pirate: