[Margaret Pilkington]

Of course we do....that is the way our political system works best....balanced like a pair of scales.

The salient word in your first sentence is 'credible'...and that is what has been missing from the equation.

Also, I feel that Parliamentarians should be dignified. When you abuse your opponent, you immediately lose the argument.

I think this last election campaign has been one of(if not the most) nasty and vitriolic ever.

I think much of this nastiness boiled over from Brexit....which polarised the country.
That said it was a democratic vote that was denied by those who should uphold democratic process. They did not do what they were supposed to do, they tried to subvert the issue for their own purposes.

There was much manipulation of parliamentary process and the perpetrator of this was someone that is put in position to be impartial....the Speaker of the house.
A lot of blame for the nasty underhand tactics has to go to John Bercow.
In days of old he would have found his head on a pike....