Can people PLEASE learn how Parliament works and what debates are for? Outrage because you see a photo and don’t understand why MPs aren’t always in the chamber isn’t a good look for professors, doctors etchttps://twitter.com/Ben_garrod/status/1101232058179993601 …
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This is like that time the Yorkshire Post went big on Yorkshire MPs not turning up to an adjournment debate, because they didn’t know what one was
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Check Hansard if you want to know if they said anything, which is the only point of going to a debate without a vote
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Parliament’s website is pretty good for explainers, look at it before MPs’ staff have to respond to your angry email about their non-attendance at a talking shop that changes nothing versus a constituency surgery that helps someone with an immediate problem
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I wasn’t taught this. I’ve never worked for an MP or in Parliament or anything like that. I just checked, the first time I saw this kind of headline. That way you don’t end up being the fake news merchants like these guyspic.twitter.com/ht6ksvAzyr
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Do I have to go on telly to explain how people with fancy jobs aren’t actually all that smart?
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Apparently you get to be senior correspondent at the Guardian by watching a bit of BBC Parliament and writing an ill-informed story, joining in with reader outrage on here, and Environment Editor at the same paper by sharing and approving
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Or or or you have an angle however puerile and silly. Although I'm not ruling out malicious and crypto fascist as a possible motivation either.
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I know, I know, they spotted an opportunity for a story. They just have a responsibility to be decent
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