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"Mr President, if the sitting is supposed to resume at 3 p.m. then would it not be a good idea to start at 3 p.m. and not have lunch until all hours of the afternoon? However, there are more serious points which we should perhaps draw to your attention.
You will be aware that your employees assaulted two of our employees – that is, employees of the United Kingdom Independence Party – this morning, causing bodily injury. I would like to ask whether this happened as a result of your instructions and whether or not you are prepared to take responsibility for this?
I appreciate that you are not the President of Parliament, who has always proved partial. At Westminster, the Speaker's job is to protect the rights of backbenchers. All that the President of this Parliament – who is totally inexperienced – seems to do is to want to preserve the status quo.
This morning he has really blotted his copy book because, last month, he permitted all the signs saying 'Yes to Turkey' to remain up in this Chamber for a considerable period of time. He set a precedent then, so why were we not permitted this very day to hold up signs saying 'Say no'?
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