{"id":969,"date":"2008-01-29T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/01\/29\/my-local-mp-in-action...\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T12:12:02","slug":"my-local-mp-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"My Local MP in action&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what we pay our MP&#8217;s to do:-<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker\"><a title=\"See more information about David Howarth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/?m=1473\"> <strong>David Howarth<\/strong><\/a> <small>(Cambridge, Liberal Democrat) <a class=\"permalink\" title=\"Copy this URL to link directly to this piece of text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debate\/?id=2008-01-28a.22.3\">Link to this<\/a> | <a title=\"The source of this piece of text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200708\/cmhansrd\/cm080128\/debtext\/80128-0004.htm#0801285000939\">Hansard source<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>On a point of order, Mr. <a class=\"glossary\" title=\"The Speaker is an MP who has been elected to act as Chairman during debates...\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=21\">Speaker<\/a>. I am having some difficulty understanding how motion No. 1 on today&#8217;s <a class=\"glossary\" title=\"The order paper is issued daily and lists the business which will be dealt...\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=5\">Order Paper<\/a> can be in order. It appears to have been made under Standing Order 15(2)(b), in so far as it is a motion to be moved by a <a class=\"glossary\" title=\"Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of...\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/glossary\/?gl=35\">Minister<\/a> of the Crown<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">&#8220;to the effect that any specified business may be proceeded with at this day&#8217;s sitting&#8230;until a specified hour&#8221;\u2014<\/p>\n<p>namely 10 o&#8217;clock. Since motion No. 1 is such a motion, whether it says so or not, it should be taken not now, but at 10 o&#8217;clock. However, if it were taken at 10 o&#8217;clock, it would have no effect, because it would be too late. Therefore, in my view the motion seems to be out of order.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from the excellent site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\">They Work for You<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what we pay our MP&#8217;s to do:- David Howarth (Cambridge, Liberal Democrat) Link to this | Hansard source On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am having some difficulty understanding how motion No. 1 on today&#8217;s Order Paper can be in order. It appears to have been made under Standing Order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[102,316],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-cambridge","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}