David Maddox: Poor timing

We are in the middle of the first budget debate of the year. It is also the first debate where the one minute warning from the Presiding Officer for when MSPs are running out of time has been stopped.
No doubt this is because of pressure from broadcasters who were fed up with "one minute" booming out in the middle of decent quotes.
But what it has meant is that many of our MSPs, including some front benchers, have not had a clue when they were supposed to finish only for their m,icrophone to be cut off in mid-sentence.
The official report tomorrow will show some interesting ends of speeches and should perhaps end with "..." in many cases.
Not least was Tory finance spokesman Derek Brownlee whose last words in his speech were: "Let us now here the case against..."Against what? We may never know, he was literally cut off in mid-sentence.
I guess some have not practised their speech beforehand for timing and others have been caught by interventions, but for an important debate it is a bit of a mess.
The reason speeches are timed out is to stop Westminster style waffling, but conversely, it means that, unlike in the Mother of Parliaments, there are few if any Holyrood speeches that will be considered great pieces of oratory.