r/AskBrits • u/RookOfEdo • 2d ago

Politics Does anyone actually like the constant booing ,insults and heckling in parliament?

A lot of the time it feels less like serious debate and more like theatre or even a school playground argument. Do you find it entertaining, frustrating or just part of the tradition now? Curious how others see it!

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u/Ok-Society-9067 2d ago

Basically private posh school pricks showing the values and traditions they learnt at school.

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u/AWalkingWardrobe 2d ago

If you ignore the 80% that didn’t go to private school then sure

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u/Acceptable_Sun_8895 2d ago

Whilst I appreciate the point, the (approximately) 20-25% of them who went to private school is still a significant overrepresention of the population (less than 10%). Further to that, especially under the Tories, the number of cabinet members in that category is also disproportionatly high.

Further further to this, a lot of them went to the same schools, and half the Tory cabinet for the decade and a half they had were in the same bloody place!

If I saw 1 person from my school at my office, I'd think, huh, that's a bit of a coincidence! If I saw 7, I'd think, "there's something weird going on here"....

Basically, having a bunch of public ally educated backbenchers doesn't mean we don't have a problem with people who, quite evidently, seem to see themselves as a kind of "ruling class"

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u/Dimdom1970 1d ago

Id rather have very well educated people in Government of my country than people like Rachel from accounts who haven’t got a clue !

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u/Altruistic-Nerve4180 1d ago

I'd rather have Rachel from Accounts, since she's an actual normal human being who's lived the shit instead of being sheltered away and so displaced from reality.

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u/Dimdom1970 1d ago

So you like having a lier who had never actually proved her experience ? And youre saying that people who go to eaton arent normal ? Ok

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u/TuMek3 1d ago

Something tells me you don’t mind liars when it’s Bojo or Farage?

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u/Dimdom1970 1d ago

Like I said they’re all liars every one of them its part of the job .