The right-wing press, including the BBC, have been desperately trying to spin and excuse the inexcusable actions of Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope – who has blocked bills to outlaw upskirting and attacks on police dogs and horses – by claiming he is against ALL private members’ bills as a point of principle.
This is what is known technically in journalism and media circles as ‘a lie’.
Because if he is so against private members’ bills in principle, then why has Chope himself sponsored a private members’ bill to make Brexit a bank holiday?
And how come he has also personally sponsored a private members’ bill to force NHS patients to pay for treatment:
The truth is that Chope has himself sponsored as many as 47 of his own private members’ bills.
His other private bills include ones to limit severance payments by public bodies to their staff; privatise the BBC and Channel 4 and end the working time regulations introduced in 1998.
So Chope is not against private members’ bills in principle at all.
He’s just against protecting women and girls from harassment, and protecting dogs and horses from being injured or killed in the line of duty.
PS. Worth mentioning also that just 6 months ago, Theresa May knighted ‘Sir’ Christopher Chope for what she called his “services to the country”.
Please share, we need to tackle the pro-Tory lies and propaganda being spewed out daily by the mainstream press. Thanks.
Daniel said:
I am not even slightly okay with an old Tory blocking this bill but I have to admit that the BBC reporting it slightly different to how you suggest.
They suggest he and a group of others, block bills that haven’t been debated and forced through on ‘a lazy unattended Friday afternoon’ – that has it’s own merits in a very weird way, even though personally I think if Maps are that against a law they’d attend even on a Friday afternoon.
It doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t support ANY private member’s bills, only those that are debated on.
That’s what I got from the BBC anyway, you may have interpreted it differently.
[You’re falling for the spin. Private members’ bills are ALWAYS debated on a Friday afternoon – and the bills are always poorly attended because MPs return to their constituencies for the weekend. His own private bills are also debated in exactly the same manner.] – TOM
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Carole Broadfoot said:
How can the tories justify this spineless twat, probably only the tip of the Tory iceberg
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JRPG said:
Now on Wikipedia
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davidcransonblog said:
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This is the state of Right-wing politics in this country. It is two-faced, brazen, hypocrisy. This is what you get if you ignore, denigrate or deny God.
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BobS said:
Christchurch! Hang your head in shame for inflicting this waste of oxygen on Parliament. We really do need a mechanism to sack the dross we inadvertently vote in.
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hilary772013 said:
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June Knight said:
Interesting choice of interests from him for his own private members bill.
And Labour is the same, blocking, abstaining or sabotaging others and bills which are important just for their own reasons and gain and pet peevishness ie they will oppose a snp bill just so they can for spite.
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Roy Lewis said:
And how many private members’s Bills has he Objected to?
He is notorious for it
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mohandeer said:
Reblogged this on Worldtruth.
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Matthew Smith said:
According to the BBC, his actual excuse is that he doesn’t want PMBs passed without inadequate scrutiny when the result would be a new criminal offence which could result in someone getting sent to jail. This seems noble enough on principle but there are other ways this could be achieved, and more constructively, than simply blocking them using procedural tricks. We have to ask why Parliament keeps scheduling PMBs for Friday afternoons when there will not be enough MPs around (there were only about 40 in the chamber when Chope objected) to debate them adequately. I wrote an article myself on this (see previous pingback).
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seachranaidhe1 said:
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Lionel Smith said:
Now Chope is claiming he is being scapegoated. Sorry pal but you should think about the consequences of your actions, there is an old saying, ‘engage brain before opening mouth’. Maybe you will now think about the intent of a PMB before jumping in with both feet and shooting them off with your mouth. https://www.theguardian.com/…/theresa-may-declines-to… Silly ol’ ****!
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Đỗ Trọng Chương said:
Maybe we should try to work with Tories, bring them into our community by accepting that their ideas represent their culture. If we treat them with respect then we can start to, you know, get them to open up and assimilate them. They will even pay our pensions.
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wildthing666 said:
It would serve Chope right if women MP’s blocked his debates by Filibustering them
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Sally Sparrow said:
As it turns out, Chope was quite right to object to this bill (although from a recent interview he plainly didn’t actually understand the details at the time). It was badly written and full of loopholes and many prosecutions would never have stood up in a court of law. Hopefully it will now be written properly and may stand a chance of actually protecting people (especially women) against unwanted and abusive personal photos etc.
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