Absolutely. Courtesy costs nothing and sends a proper message.
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What Cameron said was insulting and should be beneath him but it just shows the contempt that many Tories have for fellow humans.
When Brown insulted that Lady before the last election, BarryW, you were all over it, rightly condemning him for what he said.
Talk about double standards, political point scoring and hypocritical.
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You are quite right Gary and I am starting to wonder whether Cameron is the right man for the job.
However I don't think it's fair to tar all Tories with the same brush, any more than it is to assume that all labour people are like Blair.
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Disgraceful behaviour from Mr Cameron, he should surely know better than this but sadly it seems not. There is no excusing this sort of rudeness from our PM, it will not do him any favours.
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GaryC - no, different situation entirely.
Skinner uses his Commons seat to intervene with personal insults and quite extreme yah-boo on a regular basis - the man behaves from that seat like any street yob. He is well known as The Beast for it and is certainly no defenceless old geezer. The lady you refer to was an innocent member of the public who did nothing to earn Brown's reaction apart from raise in a perfectly reasonable matter an issue of widespread concern. If you cannot see the difference then you are clearly blinded by your own political preferences to reality. I have already said that if Cameron said that in most situations then I would agree it would be wrong but Skinner is not 'most situations'.
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Peter.
Good point.
BarryW.
No point.
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Barry, DC brought himself down to Skinner's level by responding the way he did. There was no excuse for it. He should be ashamed. This is as bad as the Calm Down Dear remark of last year. Funny though it was, it exposed Cameron as a playground bully. Playground bullies should not be running the country.
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I can only agree. He did himself and us no favours by exposing that tendency.
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Skinner is a dangerous advisory this is why lizard lips punches back so hard, skinner rattails him.
I agree Barry more politicians on all sides should have more fire in there bellies instead of the career yes men with more faces than big Ben that we have at the moment.
With skinner and, the likes of David Davis, what you see is what you get.
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bern;
have to agree with you on this one.
cameron lost his cool on this one and a bad error of judgement
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Keith s
Unelectable labour is right keith, 18 months ago they got the voter kicking of a life time
New labour totally rejected
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keith b
you are correct and new labour was dropped by blair and then brown
the problem they have now is to rebuild and move nearer to the left
but they are getting there
and cameron is now showing hes unfit to lead
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It used to be called 'unparliamentary behaviour' but I haven't heard that expression for years.
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its a shame that cameron lost his cool
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