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Chris White writes: Will the Coalition end with a commercial?

By Chris White | Thu 28th April 2011 - 12:47 pm

It is always slightly too easy to exaggerate the importance of Prime Minister’s Question Time. To the uninitiated (and there are some, mainly in more genteel democracies) it is a form of reality TV in which a normally dignified man or woman, with much on their mind and better things to do with their time, is forced to stand up for half an hour on live TV and be accurate, well-informed, witty and, well, abusive.

One slip and he/she reads about it in all the papers for the rest of the week.

The latest contestant (let us call him Mr Bullingdon) discovered …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged bullingdon, calm down dear and PMQs | 16 Comments

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