MPs behaving badly (Part 4)

you've had your say you will have further says there's something about a basic dignity just sit and listen it's not about you it's about the issue and it's not about the honorable gentleman either it's about the issue be quiet and listen that's the end of it it's not a request it's an instruction but it's a shameful carry-on when a former chairman of the conservative party is whipped against to the extent she will not push that amendment to the vote this house will be denied the chance to take no deal off the table that's the truth of it isn't it [Music] the right honourable lady is a distinguished criminal barrister now i know what it's like to be cross-examined by her but i also understand why lawyers are paid by the hour [Applause] i'm going to um i'm going to make a little bit i'm going to make a point of order and a subarry mr speaker it's debatable as to whether i was ever a distinguished member of the bar but i can tell the right honourable gentleman as a member of the criminal bar we were never paid by the hour when i was at the bar in fact repeatedly i worked pro bono as many criminal barristers have to do under his cuts well the right honourable lady has put the facts on the record i don't think we get it into the subject of who's been remunerating how much whether for legal work or penning articles in newspapers or whatever i don't think we should get into that that's just focused on the terms of the debate and actually i say to the right of general in his own interests less said about that matter the better let it be crystal clear that the secretary of state for the home department should be in this chamber answering this urgent question for him to fail to be in the chamber on thursday to make a statement about his new anti-knife crime initiative was at best ill-judged and worst ranked discourteous to the house of commons if the right honourable gentleman was able to find time to brief or to ensure that others briefed the newspapers on his behalf and he managed to scuttle off to do a radio interview and then to pop up on the andrew marshall yesterday to give viewers and the nation the benefit of his views the right honourable gentleman should have been here and if the secretary of state for the home department aspires to something a little more elevated than to be a jobbing functionary of the executive branch and wants to be a serious and respected parliamentarian he has to develop antennae and respect for the rights of the house of commons in the circumstances that he's had noticed that he should be here it is both ill-judged and rude of the secretary of state for the home department to send his admittedly brilliant junior minister into the chamber when he should be here i'm sorry i take no view on the policy because that's not for the speaker to do but in procedural terms it really is time that he upped his game i have to say to the junior health minister she tends to behave as though every exchange is somehow a conversation with her if the government had wanted order if the government had wanted don't shake her head if the government wanted to put the honorable lady up to answer it could have done it didn't what i say in all courtesy to the honorable lady is sit there be quiet and if you can't do so leave the chamber we can manage without you oh i'm sorry but there is a distinction bit order there is a distinction between a motion and an amendment what the right order what the right honorable gentleman says about emotion i accept but it doesn't relate to an amendment that's the answer so now there is no further point of point of order mr kenneth clarke [Applause] mr speaker as you will have heard today there are some concerns about the decision that you've taken in the context of the house motion that's before us and i wondered therefore if you could please confirm that your decision was taken with full advice from the clerk of the house of commons and other senior parliamentary advisers and whether you might consider under these circumstances publishing that advice [Applause] [Applause] the government pairing whip is on the right hand side of your chair and he has been frequently trying to orchestrate objections [Applause] in let me say this to the honourable gentleman the member for christchurch so far as his last remark was concerned i think i can cope with that you know government whips going about their business in their own ways something to which the chair is very well and long accustomed and the notion that a government might now and again do things that are unhelpful to the chair he's not entirely novel i've got broad shoulders and i'm not going to lose any sleep over that never have done i'm not doing so and never will i then have a second point if if mr speaker i may come on to the second point which is the presidential i've heard the honorable gentleman's first point but i would like to hear his second we've all noticed in recent months a sticker in your car making derogatory comments about brexit no this is a serious point about partiality have you driven that car with the stick of that or order and i i think the record will show and i have the highest regard and affection for the honorable gentleman that i've listened to all the points of order the only reason why i interrupt him at this point and i hope you'll forgive me doing so is that there was a factual error in his opening remarks i'm sure it was an inadvertent error and i mean that most sincerely but it was a factual error the honorable gentleman said that in recent months it had been noticed that there was a sticker in my car that sticker on the subject of brexit happens to be affixed to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes and i'm sure the honorable gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment that a wife is somehow the property or chattel of her husband she is entitled to her views that sticker is not mine and that's the end of it but do you believe that it is in order for what appears to be becoming almost an orchestrated right to take place [Applause] honourable members have raised points of order and they have been heard and they have been answered the notion that the right honorable lady stands to raise a point of order and is then shouted down he's order don't know to me that is exactly what an attempt was being made to achieve and it's not going to work when are we going to start acting like public servants doing the right thing and having the debate and getting on with it well i have the highest respect for the honourable lady as she knows i take on board what she says and i don't dissent from it [Music]

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 30 2019