Does the question asked by Chris Bryant later today have any validity

Is it really the case that Chris Bryant MP is so bereft of ideas, imagination and campaigning zeal that when chosen to ask the first question at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons later today he has to go onto Twitter to find out what he should ask?

https://twitter.com/ChrisBryantMP

So many questions arise from this:

1  Is Chris Bryant not admitting that he is unfit to be a Member of Parliament if he cannot even marshall the intellectual nous to ask a question on his own?

2  What was wrong with asking his constituents?  Or does he really care more about the opinions of his Twitter followers than the people he is supposed to be representing?  Please don't tell me they are one and the same - a tiny fraction of the electorate of Rhondda will have Twitter accounts.

3  Is it not an abuse of House of Commons procedure to allow (encourage indeed) Twitter to influence what questions are asked at PMQs?

4  Are we moving away from a Parliamentary system of government and more towards one in which the ordinary people are able to directly intervene in the House of Commons through on-line participation?

5  If we are moving towards government by social media, is Twitter the best way of introducing on-line participation in the procedures of the House of Commons? - Twitter often brings out the worst in people.

6  Does the question asked by Chris Bryant later today have any validity if it is not really the question of a member of parliament but merely the gobby opinions of some Twitter loudmouth?  

       




No use expecting the Speaker of the House of Commons to intervene - he must be the most biased Speaker of post-war times, entirely pro-Labour.