to think we are doing ourselves a disservice by asking the PM about biscuits/TV/film etc?

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We have the PRIME MINISTER on for a webchat, surely we can keep this political and relevant?

I worry that asking questions about these superficial things;

a) gives him an opportunity to avoid the harder and more important questions

and

b) may give the impression that we are just a bunch of daft mums when we are actually the complete opposite!

AIBU? (Quite probably yes)

Twas blatantly obvious that he wasn't going to listen to anything serious, so why treat it like some world-changing event. Asking about biscuits was fine.

is this genuinely a debate about whether or not we should have asked Gordon Brown about biscuits because of how it made us all look? Oh I see. It's not a debate about which questions we wished he'd answered/not avoided/answered properly and a subsequent campaign to get MNHQ to really push his office afterwards to get responses? Or to follow up on the focus group meeting idea suggested in the thread?

I do hope he reads this thread too because if you want to know how we all look and come across then it's all right here. This is actually a better representation of what some of mumsnet and some mumsnetters are really like.

It's comedy gold.

bumbling, as per the thread title, this thread isn't "a debate about which questions we wished he'd answered/not avoided/answered properly and a subsequent campaign to get MNHQ to really push his office afterwards to get responses? Or to follow up on the focus group meeting idea suggested in the thread?"

But nothing wrong with starting a thread that is that...

What me? I'm a total lazy arse.

overmy, well, two or three "advisors" at least...the PM is hardly just going to pitch up on his own, rubbing his hands and saying "Right, let's get started with the biscuit questions!!"

actually, Mumsnet HQ, how many people were in GB's entourage?

If he'd answered the question like a normal person (ie straight away and told the truth) even if it's party rings, we would have moved on and had more time for the more taxing issues, frankly he should have expected it and been able to cross that one off the list.

bumbling

agree, hatchypom.
that he ignored you, btw...

not really a suprise ! Maybe i'll try going on question time, but the last time i did that they didn't ask my question either !

Did anyone ask him about bumsex?

oh god.....you're just too funny SG

If its ok to have a sense of humour failure re biscuits, then I am going to have one on being told that all the serious questions posed on the other thread were not representative of mumsnet or the mumnsnetters were not "real" mumsnetters, and that this thread only is the fount of all that is truly mumnsnet.

fgs!

As far as I remember, most webchats have loads and loads of inconsquential nonsense in them, as we all wait for a reply....his replies were very few and far between...no one seriously gives a toss what he eats, it was an amusing counterpoint to the chat.

To make my position quite clear, politicians webchats on Mumsnet are simply a PR excercise, and anybody who is naive and deluded enough to think that what we say on them makes a blind bit of difference is living in Lala Land. So actually asking about biscuits is the only sane position to take.

And I'm a bloody labour supporter!

Oh I wish someone had SG. We'd have been, ahem, Up there, with Andrew Marr. TerryWogansCock did join the debate, room though, which was very funny. Never spoke, sadly.

i very rarely have a sense of humour failure.....but in this case..

i agree with the op...

FIne!

At least I asked him a proper question about the economic cycles!

...but I still lurve yoo...

YANBU..I was

Ok, I'll leave the grown ups to it then.

oh come on MD...you know i look at you the way Alan Davies looks at Stephen Fry...

you know that....

i'll never be as intelligent as you but i don't really care look

but they are great mates....

...

YABU

It reflected MN,the good, the bad and the silly, otherwise it could have been some faceless webchat with any online community.