Comments on: Gordon Brown agrees with me – but will he do anything about it? http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/01/gordon-brown-agrees-with-me-but-will-he.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lee Griffin http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/01/gordon-brown-agrees-with-me-but-will-he.htm/comment-page-1#comment-911 Lee Griffin Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:31:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1555#comment-911 I personally think that you have a point here Lynn, but it's not the main issue. I feel that the public are going to be much more turned off by the fact that the prime minister is rarely held to account not because of the noise and rowdiness, but because he doesn't actually answer every question as honestly as he can, and because there are far too many "would you agree..blah blah blah...but that party would fail on it" questions which happen to be more akin to the stroking of an ego.<br/><br/>Let's have it so that the PM first and foremost isn't able to evade questions. Today I think I counted 4 frank answers out of however many questions, last week I believe it was less. I, and the rest of the public, don't want to hear the same old economic stats repeated over and over again, we want to hear the PM's answers to our representative's, and favoured party's, questions. I personally think that you have a point here Lynn, but it’s not the main issue. I feel that the public are going to be much more turned off by the fact that the prime minister is rarely held to account not because of the noise and rowdiness, but because he doesn’t actually answer every question as honestly as he can, and because there are far too many “would you agree..blah blah blah…but that party would fail on it” questions which happen to be more akin to the stroking of an ego.

Let’s have it so that the PM first and foremost isn’t able to evade questions. Today I think I counted 4 frank answers out of however many questions, last week I believe it was less. I, and the rest of the public, don’t want to hear the same old economic stats repeated over and over again, we want to hear the PM’s answers to our representative’s, and favoured party’s, questions.

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