Tweeting during PMQ!!
- 19 October 2011 15:33132170There has been much talk about tweeting while debates are going on in the House. I think MPs have voted in favour of doing it as it fills up the time during the long hours of some debates...but doing it as a frontbencher while sitting four feet from the Prime Minister during the highly volatile action packed PMQuestions..well it seems a bit off!
Cheryl Gillan, Welsh Minister, was doing it and showing new Defense appointee Phil Hammond what she was posting, to both their amusements, while the PM is battling the onslaught from the Labour benches. It's all very odd. Seems completely wrong.
Here is a picture...there was a better angle but I missed it...
If you cant be bothered concentrating during PMQs then what are you doing there??
To be honest i wouldnt know a tweet from a hole in the head, as I never look nor take part. It might be an age thing, but it seems highly inappropriate to do it in the midst of the shellfire of PMQ. What the public looking in make of her gawd knows!email: dover7@msn.com - 19 October 2011 15:39132175Would have thought they could at least appear interested in what is going on, and before people leap to her defence I apply that to both sides of the House.Audere est facere.
- 19 October 2011 15:42132176absolutely appalling bad enough when being served in a shop.
i hope that disciplinary action is taken, at the end of the day flashman is the prime minister and should not be treated in this way. - 19 October 2011 15:46132178On the larger version of the photograph shown, before I had to reduce in size for showing here, she has a smirk all over her face.. enjoying herself in total oblivion to whats going on around her. A couple of feet away there is a stressed and embattled Prime Minister as you can see. It is very weird indeed.
email: dover7@msn.com - 19 October 2011 15:49132179tell you what paul looking at george and the others that photo would have made a great caption competition.
i don't actually know what a tweet is other than it used by important people to drop themselves right in it. - 19 October 2011 15:50132180Here we are..a blown up section..oh to be in oblivion..
email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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19 October 2011 16:31132185I do understand where all this is coming from, but we are in a modern age where such devices can and are used.
it's just one of many ways of instant communicating with your constituents.
iv neitherfor or against such communication, but maybe need to look at timingALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 19 October 2011 17:34132206not about communication keith, more about good manners and respect for others
- 19 October 2011 18:01132213Spot on Howard.Audere est facere.
- 19 October 2011 20:34132274Hit the nail on the head there Howard very bad manners on her part,she should not be sitting on the front bench if she has no interest in what is going on.
- 19 October 2011 20:57132278Jan, surely you subscribe to the theory that women can infinitely multi-task, while men can barely chew gum and break wind at the same time?I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
