[jambutty]

That is very true garinda because too many people bring in irrelevant points or drift right off topic. We all do it and I do mean we. We don’t have a ‘Speaker’ to keep us in line as we put forward our points. Of course being in the written form the ‘Speaker’ would have to delete parts of posts, so that it would take forever to get to a point where a vote is called for. The other point is that we are on-line at different times and that would and does stretch a debate into days or even weeks on just one topic.

It would be a different matter in an auditorium.

The current debates in Parliament are a farce and only pay lip service to a democratic debate. The passing of a bill introduced by the ruling party is a foregone conclusion because of the Whips. All the rhetoric spouted in the House may well have some valid objections to parts of a bill but the Whips carry the day for the government regardless.

The other point that I would raise is that there are too many ex barristers as MP’s. Barristers and lawyers deal in words and they are good at it. They can take a simple statement and spin it into a totally different meaning.