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  • Re: PMQs

    From NY@21:1/5 to MB@nospam.net on Wed Sep 7 12:48:26 2022
    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message news:tf9vkt$7h3g$2@dont-email.me...
    Who puts the name captions up on TV coverage of PMQs? I presume it is
    done by the company doing the Parliamentary TV coverage and not BBC etc?

    I have noticed two VERY obvious mistakes in identifying MPs this morning
    and neither had any correction. I was not watching all the time and obviously do not know every MP so wonder how many more mistakes there
    were.

    One of the big reforms I'd like to see about the House Commons (the other is
    a *secret* ballot for all "division" votes *) would be an end to "the Honourable Member for Henley" terminology, and calling MPs by their names. Their names and their cabinet roles (if any) are *far* more important than their constituencies.


    (*) And thus an end to the Whips office penalising MPs who vote against
    their party on a particular issue because they are representing the views of their constituents.

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 12:34:52 2022
    Who puts the name captions up on TV coverage of PMQs? I presume it is
    done by the company doing the Parliamentary TV coverage and not BBC etc?

    I have noticed two VERY obvious mistakes in identifying MPs this morning
    and neither had any correction. I was not watching all the time and
    obviously do not know every MP so wonder how many more mistakes there were.

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 13:00:09 2022
    On 07/09/2022 12:34, MB wrote:
    Who puts the name captions up on TV coverage of PMQs?  I presume it is
    done by the company doing the Parliamentary TV coverage and not BBC etc?

    I have noticed two VERY obvious mistakes in identifying MPs this
    morning and neither had any correction.  I was not watching all the
    time and obviously do not know every MP so wonder how many more
    mistakes there were.


    The broadcasters put up their own captions, but whether this is driven
    from the same raw .xml (etc) data feed from NEP (the providers of the
    TV/Audio feed) I don't know ?

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 13:17:32 2022
    On 07/09/2022 12:48, NY wrote:
    One of the big reforms I'd like to see about the House Commons (the other is a*secret* ballot for all "division" votes *) would be an end to "the Honourable Member for Henley" terminology, and calling MPs by their names. Their names and their cabinet roles (if any) are*far* more important than their constituencies.


    (*) And thus an end to the Whips office penalising MPs who vote against
    their party on a particular issue because they are representing the views of their constituents.



    I suspect that many people have no idea of the name of their MP, I know
    mine because he is better known as The Edinburgh Banker but have no idea
    of the name of the local MSP.

    So people will notice the speaker saying "The Honourable Member for
    <their home town>

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  • From Max Demian@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 7 17:05:58 2022
    On 07/09/2022 12:48, NY wrote:
    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message news:tf9vkt$7h3g$2@dont-email.me...

    Who puts the name captions up on TV coverage of PMQs?  I presume it is
    done by the company doing the Parliamentary TV coverage and not BBC etc?

    I have noticed two VERY obvious mistakes in identifying MPs this
    morning and neither had any correction.  I was not watching all the
    time and obviously do not know every MP so wonder how many more
    mistakes there were.

    One of the big reforms I'd like to see about the House Commons (the
    other is a *secret* ballot for all "division" votes *) would be an end
    to "the Honourable Member for Henley" terminology,  and calling MPs by
    their names. Their names and their cabinet roles (if any) are *far* more important than their constituencies.

    (*) And thus an end to the Whips office penalising MPs who vote against
    their party on a particular issue because they are representing the
    views of their constituents.

    If MPs had secret ballots they could vote for whatever they liked and
    ignore the constituents who elected them.

    --
    Max Demian

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to me@privacy.invalid on Thu Sep 8 10:51:09 2022
    Yes agreed, but no party would agree to that, Turkeys do not vote for Christmas.
    Brian

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    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message news:tf9vkt$7h3g$2@dont-email.me...
    Who puts the name captions up on TV coverage of PMQs? I presume it is
    done by the company doing the Parliamentary TV coverage and not BBC etc?

    I have noticed two VERY obvious mistakes in identifying MPs this morning
    and neither had any correction. I was not watching all the time and
    obviously do not know every MP so wonder how many more mistakes there
    were.

    One of the big reforms I'd like to see about the House Commons (the other
    is a *secret* ballot for all "division" votes *) would be an end to "the Honourable Member for Henley" terminology, and calling MPs by their
    names. Their names and their cabinet roles (if any) are *far* more
    important than their constituencies.


    (*) And thus an end to the Whips office penalising MPs who vote against
    their party on a particular issue because they are representing the views
    of their constituents.

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