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Konovalov
05-31-06, 05:54 AM
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/mp-chews-over-issue/2006/05/31/1148956388932.html

MPs' behaviour hard to stomach

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/05/31/chew2_wideweb__470x324,0.jpg

Taiwan ruling Democratic Progressive Party's Wang Shu-hui chews on a proposal on opening direct transport links with China.
Photo: STR


May 31, 2006 - 11:56AM

Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan's parliament when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote on the issue.
Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party charged towards the podium and protested noisily to prevent the review of an opposition proposal seeking an end to decades-old curbs on direct air and shipping links with China.
Amid the chaos, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui snatched the written proposal from an opposition legislator and shoved it into her mouth, television news footage showed.
Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.
During the melee, another DPP woman legislator, Chuang Ho-tzu, spat at an opposition colleague.
"She spat saliva," yelled Hung Hsiu-chu of the main opposition Nationalist Party.
Reuters


There must be something in the water because South East Asian politics involves plenty of fisty cuffs and stunts such as this. Entertaining however. :D
Skybird
05-31-06, 05:56 AM
Hollywood, Bollywood, Korea. :lol:
jumpy
05-31-06, 06:35 AM
hehe, those guys always seem to take politics with a firey attitude, not like our pedestrian and somewhat lackluster take on debate and political chicannery.
What I would give to see Blair take a beating at the hands of the opposition (or any party for that matter).
PM "Mister Speaker, I must protest..."
SOME BLOKE "Protest this!" - drives fist into smug cheshire grin.

*sigh* if only... :yep:
STEED
05-31-06, 08:11 AM
What we need is some one to throw a custard pie in to Tony Blair's smug face. :lol: :lol:
Konovalov
05-31-06, 08:14 AM
What we need is some one to throw a custard pie in to Tony Blair's smug face. :lol: :lol:

lolz. I'm sure Teflon Tony won't react in the same manner that John (where's my sexy blonde secretary) Prescot did a few years back when he thumped that protestor. ;)
STEED
05-31-06, 08:16 AM
lolz. I'm sure Teflon Tony won't react in the same manner that John (where's my sexy blonde secretary) Prescot did a few years back when he thumped that protestor. ;)

Not if we bombard him with loads of custard pies. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Konovalov
05-31-06, 08:28 AM
Not if we bombard him with loads of custard pies. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah but you would probably be arrested under the new anti-terror laws and put up at taxpayers expense in Belmarsh prison for a month or two. :lol:
STEED
05-31-06, 08:31 AM
Yeah but you would probably be arrested under the new anti-terror laws and put up at taxpayers expense in Belmarsh prison for a month or two. :lol:

It would be worth it. :D