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Re: Which one is the Gentleman?

Sounds a bit like your average forum then doesn't it
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Originally Posted by Morticia ->
Sounds a bit like your average forum then doesn't it
It does doesn't it Morty
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I never thought politicians were gentlemen anyway it doesn't go with the territory .
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In PMQ's it seems to me that the leader of the Opposition only gets to ask 6 questions (?) Cameron avoids answering as much as possibly and often either answers a totally different question (one that he's probably heard in his head) or answers with an attack on the Opposition, usually stupid jibes like the one mentioned.
As it's supposed to be his time to answer questions, I wish the Speaker would make him stand there until he answers the question adequately, saving the need for Mr. Corbyn to waste questions by repeating them.
I'd also like the PMQ's to be longer. A lot of the time is wasted by his own backbenchers "asking questions" which begin, "Will the Prime minister join me in congratulating..." sycophantic rubbish.
I get fed up with these type of responses:
" Will the Prime Minister tell us how much has been spent on pears this year and what has the government done to reduce this?"
Reply, " What we have done is given more oranges to the trees, more plums to the duff and more cherries to the cake..."
No question Mr.Corbyn is the only gentleman.
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Hi

The House of Commons is like a school playground, it soon degenerates into " My dad is bigger than your dad"

Corbyn is not as egalitarian as he tries to make out.

Far from having a normal education, he went to a fee paying prep school and Adams Grammar School is not your average Grammar School.

How many local Grammar Schools do you know who have fee paying boarders and day pupils?

A right bunch of Hurray Henry's.
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26-02-2016, 10:42 PM
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I quite like DC.
There, I've said it.
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26-02-2016, 10:47 PM
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Re: Which one is the Gentleman?

Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

The House of Commons is like a school playground, it soon degenerates into " My dad is bigger than your dad"

Corbyn is not as egalitarian as he tries to make out.

Far from having a normal education, he went to a fee paying prep school and Adams Grammar School is not your average Grammar School.

How many local Grammar Schools do you know who have fee paying boarders and day pupils?

A right bunch of Hurray Henry's.
How strange that having had such an advantage himself he fell out with the second Mrs Corbyn over sending his son to a private school/grammar school ?
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26-02-2016, 10:49 PM
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None of this matters, once you needed a person to take the minutes, now you need a person to count them.
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26-02-2016, 10:50 PM
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David Cameron comes from a privileged background went to a public school, married into the aristocracy, acts with abysmally bad manners and hostility in Parliament, and hurls personal insults at the Opposition.

Jeremy Corbyn comes from an ordinary background, went to a grammar school, married commoners, acts with courtesy and restraint in Parliament, and never indulges in personal insults.

Which one is the gentleman?
The gentleman is the one who always carries a handkerchief in his jacket pocket . . . imo.
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26-02-2016, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

The House of Commons is like a school playground, it soon degenerates into " My dad is bigger than your dad"

Corbyn is not as egalitarian as he tries to make out.

Far from having a normal education, he went to a fee paying prep school and Adams Grammar School is not your average Grammar School.

How many local Grammar Schools do you know who have fee paying boarders and day pupils?

A right bunch of Hurray Henry's.
Too true. I'm glad you pointed that out ... I believe his mother's family were fairly well off.
This is the modest two-up two-down from his boyhood days... with the usual chippy on the corner where the rag and bone man probably trundled past every week.

 
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