Comments on: Out of Order? http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/ MP for Wantage and Didcot Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Lainey http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-259 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:26:30 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-259 This is really helpful information. Thank you for sharing it. This is really helpful information. Thank you for sharing it.

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]]> by: Adam http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-121 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:33:40 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-121 What a load of nonsense by the speaker. David Cameron should be perfectly entitled to asking what he did. Mr Martin needs to do a bit more research - yes, it was a question about who the PM supports for "an office within the labour party" but the very same will be Prime Minister, until an election is called, so it is within the wider public interest to know who he is supporting. Betty Boothroyd is sorely missed. What a load of nonsense by the speaker. David Cameron should be perfectly entitled to asking what he did. Mr Martin needs to do a bit more research - yes, it was a question about who the PM supports for “an office within the labour party” but the very same will be Prime Minister, until an election is called, so it is within the wider public interest to know who he is supporting. Betty Boothroyd is sorely missed.

]]> by: Tom http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-74 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:16:54 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-74 1. The Speaker's ruling is final and I would never suggest anyone challenge it. 2. I support the principle that PMQs and other Commons business should focus on the business of Government. Party politics does of course come into this, and I don't think it's wrong for the PM to make occasional reference to other partys' policies (but the Speaker is right to bring him back to order when he does so to the exclusion of explaining what the Government is doing). 3. We elect our local MP, and thereby the governing party, not the Prime Minister. Who happens to be Labour leader, and hence, for now, PM, is therefore entirely a matter for the Labour party. But the identity of the PM is clearly of national interest, so I don't see why Cameron shouldn't ask Blair about it if he wants to (though it's a wasted question). 4. Cameron didn't mention the Labour party, simply Blair's "successor". 1. The Speaker’s ruling is final and I would never suggest anyone challenge it.

2. I support the principle that PMQs and other Commons business should focus on the business of Government. Party politics does of course come into this, and I don’t think it’s wrong for the PM to make occasional reference to other partys’ policies (but the Speaker is right to bring him back to order when he does so to the exclusion of explaining what the Government is doing).

3. We elect our local MP, and thereby the governing party, not the Prime Minister. Who happens to be Labour leader, and hence, for now, PM, is therefore entirely a matter for the Labour party. But the identity of the PM is clearly of national interest, so I don’t see why Cameron shouldn’t ask Blair about it if he wants to (though it’s a wasted question).

4. Cameron didn’t mention the Labour party, simply Blair’s “successor”.

]]> by: UK Daily Pundit http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-70 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:25:34 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-70 Not a popular point of view amongst my fellow centre-right bloggers but it has to be said anyway. When David Cameron has only six questions, once a week, what was he playing at wasting one of those questions with all this nonsense? It made him look as ridiculous and ineffective as The Speaker. Not a popular point of view amongst my fellow centre-right bloggers but it has to be said anyway. When David Cameron has only six questions, once a week, what was he playing at wasting one of those questions with all this nonsense? It made him look as ridiculous and ineffective as The Speaker.

]]> by: Simon http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-69 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:19:10 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-69 Well, after watching Wednesday's debacle in the Commons, why not submit a 'no confidence' vote in the Speaker? What a ruling by Mr Martin. Since he is not remotely bothered about Bliar giving 'straight answers to straight questions', his impatiality has to be questioned. Speaker Boothroyd, for all her faults, was very good at the job, as was Speaker Weatherall. Mr Martin demeans the position as Speaker as Bliar demeans the office of Prime Minister. Well, after watching Wednesday’s debacle in the Commons, why not submit a ‘no confidence’ vote in the Speaker? What a ruling by Mr Martin. Since he is not remotely bothered about Bliar giving ’straight answers to straight questions’, his impatiality has to be questioned. Speaker Boothroyd, for all her faults, was very good at the job, as was Speaker Weatherall. Mr Martin demeans the position as Speaker as Bliar demeans the office of Prime Minister.

]]> by: Ellee http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-68 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:47:35 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/11/01/out-of-order/#comment-68 Can the Speaker ever be overruled if his/her decision is deemed unfair? Has it ever happened? Can the Speaker ever be overruled if his/her decision is deemed unfair? Has it ever happened?

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