Sir Alden warns MPs to be brief in budget debate
(CNS): As the new speaker of the House, Sir Alden McLaughlin, got the budget debate proceedings underway in parliament on Monday, he made it clear that he would be running a tight ship over the coming weeks in order to ensure that the debate and then Finance Committee proceedings would be completed before Christmas morning. He warned MPs that the House would start and resume on time, regardless of who was in or out of the chamber, that breaks would be limited, and that MPs should not “wax on for hours” but say what they needed to say quickly.
McLaughlin, who had dispensed with the usual speaker’s costume of a wig and gown in favour of a regular business suit, said the House was under the gun to get the budget work done, as he encouraged members to be efficient. He warned that in a world with limited attention spans, people would “tune them out” if they waxed on about things irrelevant to their lives.
“No matter how great the support people have for you… their brains can only absorb as much as their posteriors can suffer sitting and listening to you,” the speaker said as he urged MPs to get through the debate as quickly as possible.
MPs were set to respond to the governor’s Throne Speech as well as the premier’s Policy Statement and the Budget Address. As is traditional, Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart began the debate with his response before sending his best wishes to former premier Wayne Panton, who is still absent from the chamber as he remains at home nursing several broken ribs as a result of bad accidental fall last week.
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Asking politicians to be brief is like asking Juliana to be fiscally conservative. It ain’t gonna happen. LOL
Thank you Sir Alden. I am always interested in hearing what goes on in the LA but cannot stomach the ramblings on and on for hours. All the pontificating long winded irreverent stuff is tiring and unnecessary.
Is this sarcasm? He literally reads poems during his tirades. Besides Jon Jon and KeeKee, there are no bigger time-wasters in there.
Unbiased?
I suppose asking them to be brief in their debate is better than asking them to debate in their brief.
Being brief is not a concept that this egotistical bunch could possibly understand.
They love the sound of their own voices too much.
Wow, this is the pot calling the kettle black! How can he stop Full Moon Seymour, Get the numbers strait Saunders or blow bag Bush from rattling on about themselves?
Shame on you Sir, you failed to mention the importance of being vague too!
See how arrogant he is, looking down on his own people with such disdain and disrespect. Better to say we can only absorb so much of the bare shit that comes out both ends with our politicians.
Direct rule now please. Get some civil servants in from Whitehall on rotations every 4 years instead of these idiots.
They’ve got direct rule back home.
Where is back home? here bobo
Go back to your homeland for direct rule clown.
hmmm…pot kettle etc…
of course if you push it through fast no one has time to really scrutinize it. here’s the smash and grab part.
bit rich coming from the ex-leader of do-nothing-ppm