Laughing – A New Political Tactic – Oh My!!!

The Speaker – We Are Not Amused (is she ever)

 

Well there really isn’t a great I need to say to explain the following clip of the Labor MP, Julie Collins,being warned against the possibility of laughing and then being asked to leave the chamber when said laughter ensued [personally I think I would have been hard put not to laugh at that point].  The Speaker has then accused the opposition of using laughter as a weapon and warns that she believes it may be disruptive [heaven forbid].

The Serious Side of the Whoopee Cushion

Perhaps if the Abbott government didn’t provide so much material then it would not be so easy but in all honesty at times it’s as necessary as the whoopee cushion [come on Abbott is on the level of fart humor after all even it is ‘conservative fart humor‘] but in this particular case I think it is just a little bit of an over reaction on behalf the Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop.  Most likely this is because she wouldn’t recognize humor in any of its forms and despite the fact that the Speaker is supposed to act in a bipartisan manner she is so one-sided I wonder at her ability to walk without lurching to the right with every step.