I WAS at Macca’s Dickson last week and Question Time from the House of Reps was blaring out of not one, but all three TVs. And most people in the place were watching.

This is a funny old town isn’t it? It is a city like no other. This is the only place in Australia where “Q&A” makes it into the top 20 of most watched programs.

We thrive on parliamentary proceedings here, but I for one am most pleased that we’ve got a break from it for a fortnight now. Federal Parliament is a pantomime. It’s a cheesy, cringeworthy, theatre production and it’s getting worse.

The tone of May’s sitting weeks was set by the member for Dobell Craig Thomson with his hour-long “I haven’t done anything wrong” speech.

And things didn’t improve much for the rest of the fortnight with the cat fighting and name calling escalating to deplorable levels.

Question Time has descended into a complete farce.

What annoys me most is the political grandstanding and one-upmanship that has crept into seemingly every single address by every elected member. Questions, answers and statements have all become nothing more than political propaganda and I’m sick of it.

There’s no point to this circus, so just put away the clown suit, guys, and have a go at running the country.

Mark Parton is the breakfast announcer on 2CC.