Extract from Commons debate on Hybrid Proceedings (Extension
of Temporary Orders) Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland)
(LD) [V]:...But the biggest limitation and my real concern is the
range of business that the House is able to deal with. There are no
Westminster Hall debates and the Backbench Business Committee is
not functioning, but still the world continues to evolve. Israel is
considering the annexation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
we have very little...Request free
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Extract from Commons
debate on Hybrid Proceedings (Extension of Temporary
Orders)
(Orkney and Shetland) (LD) [V]:...But the biggest
limitation and my real concern is the range of business that the
House is able to deal with. There are no Westminster Hall debates
and the Backbench Business Committee is not functioning, but still
the world continues to evolve. Israel is
considering the annexation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
we have very little opportunity to have a say on that. In Hong
Kong, China is walking ever further from the joint declaration.
These are all matters of great importance; whatever we do after the
recess, this House must be allowed to have our voice in respect of
all of them...
Extract from Lords debate
on Beyond Brexit (European Union Committee Report)
(Con):...We send 36 people to
Strasbourg; about half are British Conservatives. I am afraid that
the way they behave there is—shall we say?—not designed to increase
the influence of Great Britain. In particular, I mention the
chairman of the Conservative group, , who,
at the beginning of this year, together with , invited the Alternative for
Germany —the AfD—to join the Conservative group. In Strasbourg
today, at a time when we are looking to influence Governments all
around Europe, we have the British Conservatives allied with the
AfD, the Holocaust deniers and the racists. What
will we say to the Conservative Friends of Israel
and the Jewish community? We have rightly
condemned the Labour Party in the past; I am pleased about what
is now doing. But really, if the
Minister has any influence, he must realise that this does us
absolutely no good. It is time for the Conservative whip and the
Conservative leadership to intervene, stop pretending that this
does not matter, and get us out of this alliance with near
fascists...
