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It is not only female MP's that are "put off".

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/17/prime-ministers-questions_n_5167986.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Prime Minister's Questions Noise 'Puts Female MPs Off From Contributing', Speaker Says Commons Speaker John Bercow struggles to keep order Questions to the Prime Minister. The weekly excursion into the world of “Yaboo” politics where each side of the House of Commons can indulge themselves in mindless baying and snide remarks from one side, no doubt shouted in order to provoke reaction from the other side to draw the “referee” Mr. Speaker to intervene with “Order, Order” or a phrase that Mr Bercow has taken to using over recent years of “The honourable member should calm down”. Questions to the Prime Minister now demonstrates for around 30 minutes each Wednesday, everything that is wrong with British politics and why, generally, there is such disillusionment amongst many people in this country with the political structure. Scoring cheap politi...

The kindergarten of the House of Commons at Prime Minister's Questions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/02/pmqs-david-cameron-ed-miliband-muppets_n_5075307.html?utm_hp_ref=uk PMQs: David Cameron Calls Ed Miliband And Ed Balls 'The Two Muppets'    Pathetic behaviour by so called "responsible adults" in the weekly pantomime of PMQ's. The kindergarten of the House of Commons, brings politics into disrepute and feeds contempt for "politicians" into the public perception of running the country. These predominately public school constructs on both sides of the Commons, have brought their childish antics directly from the "playing fields" into Westminster, and actually believe that they are really clever, "landing blows" on their opponents and making political capital with insults, jibes and patronising comment, all to a background of baying, ya booing and raucous laughter from the back benches. An appalling weekly spectacle, which becomes even more ghastly every week...

More like a noisy farmyard than the "Senate" of the United Kingdom.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/order-order--is-it-time-to-bring-rowdy-mps-into-line-and-reform-pmqs-9027619.html Is it time to bring rowdy MPs into line and reform PMQs?      Controlling the mob? I have long been critical of the weekly circus of "Yaboo" politics so loved and commented upon by the media pundits of television and press. "The Prime minister was clearly left reeling after heavy blows were landed from the opposition benches" or some other cliche ridden rubbish from BBC News or Sky News or some other media commentators, frequently dominate the political news "reports", and are as meaningless as they are banal.   (http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-weekly-visit-to-kintergarden.html) It is not only during Questions to the Prime Minister that this playground behaviour of trading insults and shouting banalities across the chamber of the House of Commons is put on public disp...