Jeremy Corbyn and questions from the general public

@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
September 16, 2015 11:43am CST
The new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has broken with tradition and announced a new format for "Questions for the Prime Minister" on Wednesdays in the House of Commons. Instead of asking his own questions he has invited the general public to suggest the questions he should ask, and he said that he had had 40,000 responses. Two thoughts come to mind: will he keep this up, and will the questions he chooses actually be the ones he would have asked in any case?
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Ray Turner
@TGRWorzel (47)
• United Kingdom
16 Sep 15
I think the answer to both of your questions is probably yes.
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
16 Sep 15
He may eventually find that the question he wants to ask has not actually arrived as an email from an outside source. The temptation will then be to invent "Eve from Gloucester" who has fortuitously asked the pertinent question!
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Ray Turner
@TGRWorzel (47)
• United Kingdom
16 Sep 15
Could be @indexer. I also suspect there are enough channels open between Labour and tyhe constituencies to go fishing for the questions that they want. Might not need to invent anybody, if they do that right.
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Oshy
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
16 Sep 15
And how about also asking himself those questions haha
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