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Essay On Parliamentary Debates

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Differences in national parliamentary cultures become immediately apparent when watching parliamentary debates. When comparing a debate in the House of Commons to one in the German Bundestag, the differences are striking: while the Bundestag debates in a very calm and ordered way, the debaters are nearly peaceful and in any case quite polite for the most part, the House of Commons resembles more a boxing arena. This is partly related to the locations: the Bundestag is large, and the interior space is enormous, while the House of Commons is small and the government and opposition factions sit directly opposed to each other with the MPs sitting closely side-by-side in their respective groups. In the House of Commons, hooting and booing is a standard means of expression in the debate, as well as the use of certain established expressions, the atmosphere is often heated, and the debate may resemble a fight.

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Nearly 70 per cent.of people did not vote in the elections of last week, and 40 per cent voted for parties other than those represented here, and we have to accept that people want us first to clean up our politics quickly. I would have thought he would make more mention of that in his response to the statement … We want all-party support for the new code of conduct and the parliamentary standards commissioner, and also for the way we deal with issues of exclusion from the House of Commons, which is something that has not been faced up to before. The precondition of any debate about the future of our democracy must be our determination to recognise, with humility, that this House has got to clean up its affairs as a matter of urgency, and every Member of Parliament shares a responsibility for doing that.

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