In most cases, parliaments all over the world are just short of being circuses.
In Bolehland, that is vey much it. Especially when you have a weak speaker who is unable to have a grip on proceedings.
Where a speaker is unsure of himself and soft to boot, you will have MPs in the house shouting down each others and freely hurling unparliamentary language like agitated monkeys on hot tin roof instead of debating issues.
It is an ugly sight to behold. Zoo animals look more dignified than the parliamentary species.
A lot of the circus stuff is down to a weak speaker who is unable or afraid to exercise the chair's authority.
Misbehaving MPs should be told off in no uncertain terms and expelled from the house if they insist on continuing to turn it into a circus. Not mollycoddled.
The rules should be amended to disallow interjections while an MP has the floor, especially when a minister is in the midst of answering questions.
Interjections to seek clarifications or otherwise, should not be entertained because they have often been abused to throw a minister off his train of thought or just to seek attention with inane questions, hurl abuses and waste precious time.
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