 | Clarification on Parlimentary Convention House of Commons debates Wednesday, 4 June 2008 Points of Order Robert N. Wareing: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I seek your guidance? Just after the Queen's Speech, you made an announcement about the need for Members to abide by the parliamentary convention that Members should not interfere in constituencies of other Members. On 25 January, Lord Adonis came to my constituency and, on 1 February, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families also came. They both visited schools in my constituency. I was not made aware of the visits and I understand from leaflets that were put out in the constituency that they were there on the encouragement of Mr. Stephen Twigg, who wishes to unseat me at the next election. Speaker: It is not a point of order. Except to say, I have said on previous occasions, and I reiterate it now, that when Ministers intend to come to a constituency, they should write to the honourable Member concerned and show them the courtesy of letting them know that they are going to be in the constituency. They do not need to ask the permission of a Member of Parliament to come into the constituency, of course, but they must notify them. That is the convention, which should be adhered to. I will not be drawn into the argument about motives. Robert Smith: What advice applies to the Prime Minister when he visits a constituency to hold a meeting? Should the Prime Minister also notify us of his visit? Speaker: All Ministers of the Crown should do so. |
 | Ever wondered what your MP does? This video will show you a little bit about what Gerry does for and on behalf of his constituents in Bradford South. To see what he does in London view the other videos. |
 | Charlie Rose - David Miliband David Miliband, current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Member of Parliament for the constituency of South Shields, Tyne and Wear. |
 | Middlesbrough Worst Town Award Middlesbrough Worst Town Award Ray "I have a vision" Mallon & cronies at work blighting Middlesbrough by demolishing sound & solid homes. Despite growing "waiting for Middlesbrough housing lists" Ray "I have a vision" Mallon & cronies continue to blight Middlesbrough by demolishing sound and solid homes across the town. see the link -- http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070604/text/70604w0043.htm Middlesbrough people waiting for housing - 1997 = 3585 1998 = 3567 1999 = 3123 2000 = 3312 2001 = 2912 2002 = 2921 2003 = 3321 2004 = 4324 2005 = 5217 2006 = 7456 2007 = 10315 Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people in (a) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland and (b) (i) Middlesbrough and (ii) Redcar and Cleveland council areas are on waiting lists for council housing. [139735] Yvette Cooper: The constituency of Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland covers a large proportion of the Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough council areas. Information is not collected at the constituency level, only at local authority level and includes households rather than people. The number of households on the waiting list for social housing in (b) (i) Middlesbrough and (ii) Redcar and Cleveland, as at 1 April each year, is published on the Communities and Local Government website in table 600. The links for this table is given as follows, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House: http://www.communities.gov.uk/embedded_object.asp?id=1163853 source = http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070604/text/70604w0043.htm Middlesbrough People Waiting for Housing list = http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/144458.xls St Hilda's / Middlehaven / riversideone Riversideone Middlesbrough apartments for sale.. buy your "room with a view" at Middlehaven, St Hilda's.. to knock 30 years off your life expectancy.. these "Location Location Location photos for your very own room with a view.. Come live at riversideone.. the bio technological virtual reality.. buy into the New Vision, buy into the Dream.. views of the Chemical Plants, bio hazard developments, mud flats, stench of the river Tees and Middlesbrough Dock included with your dream property.. For that life changing experience.. and a short life time stay.. for your health and welfare.. what more can be said.. but come live at Riversideone.. MBC have yet to add these new builds to their regular bulldozing schemes.. so get in quick before your dream home is added to the "what do we bulldoze next" plan.. Remember the Boro catch phrase.. MBC and partners taking your assets and money to win the award of UK Worst Town.. http://www.middlesbroughcouncil.com/section2/Page1.aspx |
 | Colin Swindell Speaks to Labour Party Conference 2008 Colin Swindell, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Derbyshire Dales Constituency, Speaks to Labour Party Conference 2008 about the rural economy. |
 | 39 Super Marginals - Fabian Lecture Part 1 Hazel Blears' lecture to the Fabian Society on 10 May set out some of her thinking on the way forward for the Labour Party. In Part 1, Hazel talks about the importance of the South of England in terms of keeping Labour's Parliamentary Majority. |
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 | Joe Fitzpatrick - Dundee West Cllr Joe Fitzpatrick wins the Dundee West constituency for the SNP in 2007. I have also left in a bit of Charles Kennedy looking a bit tired and emotional whilst comparing Joe's speech with fishwife McNeill's |
 | Gorgeous George, Sky news. Enjoy See youtube MiddleEastPolitics for more thought provoking videos.... George Galloway tears apart Sky News in a debate about the 2006 Lebanon War. The 2006 Lebanon War, known in Lebanon as the July War (Arabic: حرب تموز Ḥarb Tammūz) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War (Hebrew: מלחמת לבנון השנייה Milkhemet Levanon Ha-Shnía), was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military. The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon. Hezbollah (Arabic: حزب الله ḥizbu-llāh, literally "party of God") is a Shi'a Islamic political and paramilitary organization based in Lebanon. It follows an Islamist Shi'a ideology developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Sky News is a 24-hour British domestic and international television news channel that started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service, as well as a hourly news radio service in the UK. Broadcast of a 24-hour radio service is due to begin in 2007. It was modelled on the US CNN channel. George Galloway (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish politician and author noted for his left-wing views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987 and currently represents Respect for the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency. He was previously a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead and for Glasgow Kelvin. Galloway is perhaps best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s and to avert the 2003 invasion of that country. He made visits there in 1994 and 2002. As part of a speech in his 1994 visit in which Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was in attendance, he said "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability", although Galloway has always claimed that he was addressing the Iraqi people. In his 2002 visit, as war talk and claims of weapons of mass destruction filled the airwaves, he said "we are determined that we are going to do everything we can to stop this rush over the cliff." He was later accused by a U.S. Senate Committee led by Norm Coleman of personally profiting from abuses of UN Oil-for-Food programme. He combatively countered the charges by accusing Coleman and other pro-war politicians of covering up the "theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth... on your watch" that had occurred post-invasion Coalition Provisional Authority by "Halliburton and other American corporations... with the connivance of your own government." He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 when a party body decided that similarly strong statements he had made in opposition to the invasion had brought the party into disrepute. In January 2004, Galloway made his comeback as a founding member of Respect, a new political coalition to the left of Labour, in association with the Socialist Workers Party and other left-wing groups, anti-Iraq war activists such as Salma Yaqoob, and other figures on the British left such as film director Ken Loach. He won his seat in the 2005 general election, the first time Respect had contested a Parliamentary election. On 3 November 2007, the Socialist Workers' Party claimed that Galloway had announced he was splitting from Respect after an internal dispute. Galloway denied this, and together with Respect chair Linda Smith, Vice Chair Salma Yaqoob and sixteen other members of the National Council, issued an invitation to a Respect Renewal conference, organized on the same day and time as the scheduled Respect conference. On 17 July 2007, Galloway was censured by the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges, which recommended his suspension from the House for 18 days for "his unwillingness to cooperate fully with the Commissioner, and his calling into question of the Commissioner's and our own integrity [which] have in our view damaged the reputation of the House". In response, Galloway commented: "Once more and yet again I have been cleared of taking a single penny or in any way personally benefiting from the former Iraqi regime through the oil for food programme or any other means ... What really upset them [the committee] is that I always defend myself." On July 23, 2007, during a debate on the Committee's recommendation, Galloway was ordered out of the House of Commons by the Speaker after making repeated attacks on the integrity of officers of the House |
 | Parlimen Malaysia - Sothinathan Speaks For Medical Students In an unprecedented move, the cabinet yesterday suspended Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Datuk S. Sothinathan for three months with immediate effect for going against government policy. Explaining the reason for the decision, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said: "As a member of the government, he should not have taken the stand to criticise the government (in Parliament)." He said that this was certainly a breach of party (BN) discipline. He said Sothinathan, who will still be a member of parliament, will stay away from the front bench for three months. This is the first time the government is suspending a deputy minister from its ranks, Abdullah said after speaking at an investors conference. Sothinathan, 45, who is Teluk Kemang MP and MIC secretary-general, had during a debate on the Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) issue in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, questioned the government's decision to de-recognise CSMU degrees. The debate was on a DAP motion to discuss the Malaysian Medical Council's decision to not recognise CSMU degrees, affecting Malaysian students. Sothinathan had said many of the students at the university are Indians and because of this, being a BN component party, the MIC is duty-bound to protect their interest. "We are the party in government representing the Indian community ... it is our duty to right a wrong when it happens," he had said when responding to Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad. The Chief Secretary to the Government in a statement issued last night said: "Based on the Code of Ethics for Members of the Administration 2004, a member of the administration (including deputy minister) is bound by the principles of joint responsibilities, that is, he cannot make any statements which are contrary to government policities." Tan Seri Samsudin Osman, who is also cabinet secretary, said the decision to suspend Sothinathan was made at the cabinet meeting which discussed his behaviour in Parliament on Tuesday. "The cabinet decided to get the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to suspend the YB Deputy Minister (Sothinathan) for three months with immediate effect," he said. The decision is in accordance with Clause (1) Article 43A which is read jointly with Section 29 of the 11th Schedule of the Federal Constitution. When contacted, Sothinathan said he accepts the decision and will continue to do his party and constituency work. Met at works minister and MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu's office, he refused to elaborate on the decision. He had earlier held a closed-door meeting with Samy Vellu. Also present were MIC leaders including its vice-president Datuk G. Palanivel. Samy Vellu said in a statement that it is Abdullah's prerogative to suspend Sothinathan. "The prime minister has the right to take this decision because it is his prerogative to appoint ministers and deputy ministers, apart from other government officials." He said that he will table the MIC's stand on CSMU at the next cabinet meeting, since Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek will not be present. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said that Sothinathan loses his privileges and responsibilities as a deputy minister, as well as his salary, during that period. He said he had informed BN Chief Whip Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak of the breaking of rank and had provided the Hansard and tape recording of the debate as evidence. He said Sothinathan was not referred to the Dewan Rakyat Privileges Committee because he did commit an offence in relation to his position as an MP. "What he actually did was he broke rank and it was solely an administrative issue because he was part of the government. He broke the party discipline and he was disciplined." Nazri denied that the suspension was meant as a warning to front bench members not to speak against the government. "If you are member of the administration, it is your duty to defend the stand, decision and policy of the government. You cannot have the cake and eat it." In December 2002, Penang assemblymen Lim Boo Chang and Tan Cheng Liang were suspended indefinitely by the MCA and BN for refusing to vote against an Opposition motion to defer the RM1.03 billion Penang Outer Ring Road project in the state assembly. SUPPORT AND LOBBY FOR PARLIAMENTARY TELECASTS Bahawa Dewan ini mengambil keputusan untuk membenarkan siaran langsung sidang Dewan Rakyat melalui televisyen supaya rakyat boleh menonton ucapan para ahli Yang Berhormat dan proses Dewan Rakyat membuat keputusan terhadap dasar dan undang-undang. More videos available on Google Video. http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=parlimen |
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