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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is precisely to protest about the joke the Government is making of democracy and the way it is conducting this debate that-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I wish to comment on the way in which the vast majority of amendments that have been submitted have been ruled out of order. It makes an extraordinary joke of democracy that out of 71 amendments, more than 50 are ruled out of order on a Bill that has such profound effects on hundreds of thousands of families in this country, their quality of life, pay and conditions, and that debate...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision to rule the amendments out of order is even more extraordinary in that, on the one hand, of the 25 amendments I submitted, 24 were ruled out of order, many of them on the grounds that they would result in a charge on the Exchequer and that they would interfere with the finances of the Bill, while on the other hand, a series of amendments to section 1 were ruled out of order...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Everyone was speaking to the entire Bill, so I will just do what everyone else did. The key issue is that this Bill is a subversion of democracy and it follows on from the manner in which the Government has tried to browbeat the trade union movement-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in this country and public sector workers into accepting a cruelly unjust, economically stupid and unsustainable attack on their pay and conditions.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful that a Labour Party Government, on the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lock-out, would try to do this to the very people who voted for them in the belief that the Labour Party would protect them, when instead it has stabbed them in the back and is trying to force even more cuts in their pay and conditions on top of those they have already suffered over the past five years with...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not have a Second Stage.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Technical Group did not even get a second round.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not interested in changing Standing Orders. It would not entertain a debate on the guillotine. It just rammed the Bill through.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has short-circuited debate deliberately because it wants to kill the debate. It is trying to pull the wool over people's eyes and trying to railroad the Bill through on top of people who have suffered cruelly in the past five years.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The people sought the protection of the Labour Party and it has betrayed them.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a real point of order. Section 1 refers to the public interest and the name of the Bill as being in-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, section 1 refers several times to measures in the public interest. That is the title of the Bill. It is perfectly in order for Members to question whether that is an accurate definition of what is this Bill, because I and others on this side do not believe it is in the public interest. Consequently, it is in order-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for them to question whether this is accurate.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order on whether Members' points-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----are relevant.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Had the Minister allocated time for a Second Stage debate, it would have been all right.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it fascism when a Government does not allow people time to speak?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What has that got to do with the section?