Our MPs are constantly clapping for each other. In the Mother Parliament, they don’t accept such nonsense.
It’s getting a bit noisy in there
An existential query for the House of Commons
How to make the House of Commons relevant?
How about less party discipline and a stricter Speaker?
Speaker John Bercow reviews the history and present circumstance of Prime Minister’s Questions.
While the NDP is calling for the Speaker to be more assertive on this side of the Atlantic, there is an interesting development to be noted in the mother parliament.
Via the Globe’s Doug Saunders and Broken Social Scene’s Julie Penner, news that the new Speaker in the British House of Commons is vowing to shorten that Parliament’s summer break. Seems British MPs sat for “just” (JUST!) 143 days last year. Seems Mr. Speaker believes a greater demonstration of accountability is necessary.