[Neil Jones]

I’ve often thought if budgets were better than bbc parliament should become bbc politics and then show things like this press conference then after wards they could have representatives across the political divide then discussing it afterwards that way you’d have the best of both worlds, the press conference would be shown plus it could be discussed and opposing views given for balance. You could then bring back a version of the news multi-screen but instead it has live feeds from the different parliaments or select committees. Ideal world stuff of course.

But that's not the remit of BBC Parliament to do any of that, and in any event "BBC Politics" is just a name asking for trouble. BBC Parliament is essentially just a rebroadcast of the output from Westminster in new packaging (with new graphics), and I dare say its predecessor was the same as well to an extent.

Its not for BBC Parliament whatever you call it to "discuss" anything in that regard. That's what the news channels are for. And parliaments only ever sit normally during day time hours in any event (bar the Monday sitting which is just a rotated 8hr day), they don't run 24/7 and even if they are sitting out of hours its usually because some major event has forced their hand.

So on that basis you can chuck as much money as you like at BBC Parliament, it'll just do what it does now. The only reason it simulcasts BBC News is because it lost all that money, and now you only get filler material at awkward times.