Parliamentary Protocol Breached By The S N P

[mushroom25]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queens-speech-snp-told-clapping-5772809

parliamentary conventions and traditions to be respected?

or stuffy irrelevances that need sweeping away?

[fiction-factory]

I think it would get tiresome if long rounds of applause occurred after many speeches

[mikey4444]

I personally don't have a problem with occasional clapping, but I guess the Speaker has to keep debates reasonably civilised and rules are rules. But its hardly a big problem, especially when you consider all the other shenanigans that go on in the Palace of Westminster !

[Gromit]

A clap is respectful and appreciative.

Bawling and braying at the top of their voices isn't.

If the convention is wrong, even if it is long established, it should be challenged if it is supposed to enourage order, but results in the opposite.

[DTCwordfan]

the thugs have arrived, what next Celtic shirts?

[mikey4444]

Not one kilt I notice DTC !

[Svejk]

I suspect it was a sardonic(or something) clap. They all wore white roses (a Jacobite symbol) as well. So seems to me they were being deliberately disrespectful.

[dannyk13]

I thought the white rose was a symbol of God's own county, Yorkshire.

[Svejk]

When a Scotsman wears it, it's anti-Hanoverian. (I think)

[Kathyan]

I think it's time they all grew up and I don't mean just the SNP!

[jomifl]

The SNP are behaving like spoilt children who haven't got their own way...whatever that was.

[steg]

"The rose of all the world is not for me
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart."

Hugh MacDiarmid

[New Judge]

Since the SNP obviously holds the Westminster Parliament in such contempt perhaps it would be best if they did a "Sinn Féin" and absented themselves from that forum.

[naomi24]

//seems to me they were being deliberately disrespectful. //

... and deliberately provocative.

[andy-hughes]

I think that the protocol of waving order papers in lieu of applause is a valid procedure - it was demonstrated by the fact that one Member had his response drowned out by the noise of clapping - which is a very good reason why it is not allowed.

So like a large number of long-standing practices in our society - this one has lasted because it works, and should not be abandoned or disrespected.

The SNP are rapidly developing a reputation as a bunch of noisy gate-crashers, which negates the importance and seriousness of the positions they hold, and the influence they have.

Changing minds takes vigorous debate, intelligence, and tenacity. Those qualities should not be superceeded (assuming they do exist) by behaving like a bunch of fourth-formers on a school trip to the Commons.

[mushroom25]

//They all wore white roses (a Jacobite symbol) as well.//

that's interesting. the SNP purport to be interested in scottish independence, but the jacobite movement was about restoring the stuart (catholic) succession to the UK throne. i never realised the SNP were sectarian - how is the white rose viewed, if worn at Ibrox Park?

[steg]

Took selfies
Tried to nick Dennis Skinners seat that he has sat in for 45 Years
Now clapping, instead of shouting and baying
scandalous I say, lol

[steg]

http://m.silkblooms.co.uk/buttonholes/blue-thistle-grooms-wedding-buttonhole-scottish-rangers-tartan-7323

White roses go quite well with rangers tartan

[anneasquith]

highland dancing lessons are compulsory in the bar at lunchtime. enjoy :)