If you take the opportunity to express your right to visit the House of Commons when it is normally sitting (i.e. during office hours, not during recess and not

If you take the opportunity to express your right to visit the House of Commons when it is normally sitting (i.e. during office hours, not during recess and not during PMQs) you'll see very measured, fairly productive and often entirely non-combative debate. PMQs is entirely accepted as a show that gives all MPs and the press a broad view, almost a caricature of the events and issues of the week and the positions of the parties. If you had moved to the UK and had no idea of the current state of politics, you could very quickly get up to speed by simply watching a single session of PMQs. Just for clarity, to attend a PMQs you need to get a ticket from your MP, in most cases a request in a letter is sufficient. As you posted a link to a PMQ, I'll not miss this opportunity to post a link to when Hague met Prescott over the dispatch box in 2006. For those not in the know, when the PM is away the Deputy PM takes over (Who was in this case the famously brash and ineloquent John Prescott), and as is tradition the Deputy Leader of the Opposition asks the question (who was in this case the fairly forgettable and ineffective past-leader of the opposition William Hague). This is a great example of what is known as "Punch and Judy Politics". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeOafTBoVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeOafTBoVs