Question time - 24 February, 2010

Question time is a meeting and an opportunity that MPs and all the members of the House of Lords gets, here they can ask the government ministers different questions that they want an oral answer on. The prime minister answers questions every Wednesday. The MP mostly asks an "open question", so he can ask a supplementary question on any subject. These question times can last for many hours, and the one I was watching were on Wednesday 24 of February, from 11.30am to 7.45 pm.

Gordon Brown came after 28 minutes, and started to send condolences to the ones who lost some people in Afghanistan. This calmed everyone down, before the questioning started. He talks slowly and his whole body language is calm and relaxed. I notice that everyone is relaxed and the audience is quiet. This lasts until David Cameron ask Brown what he think about the situation on a hospital, were many hundred people died after being mistreated. This open up for loud discussions between the audience and the heath starts to build up. Sometimes it is so loud that the speaker has to interrupt and tell them to be quiet.

Both Cameron and from the Conservative party and Brown from the Liberal party, appears to be calm and well prepared for this question time. Brown uses his body, especially his right arm to make a statement. The tone in his voice is emotional, easy and comfortable to listen to. He answers to all the questions without problems. Cameron also have good questions, but some of them are irrelevant and is made just to hang out and make fun of Brown.

If we look at the hole debate, it seems to me that many of the audience don't respect the one that is speaking. They shout out what they mean when they mean it, so the ones who are talking is often being interrupted and disturbed.

If we look at some examinations and poles it seems like the Conservative party is going to win the election this year. The time will show.