Dutch Ministers and MPs have been told to stop using the internet message service Twitter while attending debates. Instead, ministers and MPs should show good manners and concentrate on parliamentary proceedings. The parliamentary chairwoman has written to senior civil servants urging them to get their ministers under control.

Foreign minister Maxime Verhagen is a keen user of the service. He was famously ticked off by the prime minister for posting a photograph of a cabinet meeting as a Twitter message. And a Labour MP recently messaged that he thought the dress a female MP was wearing was nicer than the debate 'so far'.

(Dutchnews.nl)