Question Time

[patgund]

A political tradition in the UK and many of the Commonwealth countries is that of Question Time or Question Period

Basically this is a period in which MP's, both of the majority party and of the minority party, can ask and/or demand answers from Ministers and other high-ranking government officals. The UK brings it one step futher in that every Wednesday has the Prime Minister's Questions, in which the Prime Minister has to answer the questions him or her self.

There are serious times I think the US could benefit from a practice simular to "Question Time".

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

There is no way on God's Green Earth that this would ever be conducted in the USA without pre-determined questions and used as a propaganda machine. Nice idea though.

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

They'd have to get Scotty some tap dancing lessons, though. His routine is getting old and people aren't buying it quite as readily.

BTW, where did you get that "sunshine out the butt" icon? I'd like to use it but I like knowing where things come from before borrowing. Don't want to generate any bad webmaster karma ;-).

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Scotty heck. Could you imagine the US version of the Prime Minister's Questions? W would *wilt* under real questioning from real reporters and real opposition, rather than the pre-screened audiences he's normally used to pandering to.

It's from an on-line comic called "Sinfest". I was given the icon with no restrictions on it's use, so if you want to use it, feel free to.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

The Canadian "Question Period" includes a fair history of how this can go wrong....

but yeah - it'd be good to implement it over in that kooky country (the US that is).