Here is our weekly update on how your Stone MP has voted in recent parliamentary sessions and also any debates they’ve taken part in.
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18th July 2022
Bill Cash : 1 votes
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
Voted aye (division #45; result was 347 aye, 238 no)
Speaker:Bill Cash : 3 Commons debates
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
Bill Cash: I certainly, most emphatically, have confidence in this Government, and no confidence whatever in Her Majesty’s official Opposition, the Liberal Democrat party, the Scottish National party, or any other Rag, Tag and Bobtail. First, I pay tribute to the Prime Minister, who has led on all the historic matters that he has carried through so successfully since becoming Prime Minister a mere three years ago: Brexit, standing up for Ukraine, and covid.
The general election was based on a manifesto that gave us a great democratic majority, and the Labour party a well deserved drubbing. On the handling of covid, from which the Prime Minister nearly died—[Interruption.] Don’t you dare speak like that. With courage and resilience, he battled through. AstraZeneca and the expertise of our great scientists led the way, with the support of our Government under this Prime Minister.
Then there is Ukraine—Putin’s brutal and unprovoked aggression, and the murder and killing of innocent citizens, not to mention even Russian soldiers sent to fight on false pretences—on which the Prime Minister of this country has led the world.
Then there is Brexit, on which the Prime Minister led a democratic victory in 2019, endorsing the vote of the British people in 2016 and freeing us from the subjugation of the European Union, other than with the unfinished business of Northern Ireland. That is now being addressed in the Committee stage of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which had a majority of 74 on Second Reading.
Brexit itself, with the freedoms generated by leaving the laws of the European Union and the means to unleash the potential of the British people and their businesses, innovation and worldwide commercial ambitions, will create new horizons in our economic history.
All this is based on stable economic foundations. The fact is that, if we look at the unemployment rate in the other member states we see that, while our unemployment—now we are out—is 3.8%, in Germany it is 5.3%, in Italy 8% and in Spain 13%. The eurozone is imploding and on life support. All these problems of the cost of living were induced by the uncontrollable global and external forces causing inflation throughout the western world.
Under all the strident rantings of Labour Members, this Government have succeeded where, on every count, they would have completely failed miserably. The essential foundations of sovereignty and democracy have now been re-embedded in our national DNA. This success cannot be taken away from the Prime Minister, and it never will be when the history books are written.
Job vacancies are now at a mere 1.3 million in this country, which is far better than in the other member states. The G7 and similar countries are affected in a similar way. Thanks to this Prime Minister, this Government and this party, we have made a success of one of the greatest revolutions in British constitutional history, certainly since we entered in 1973 and stretching back over 400 years.
I have confidence in this Government because they have achieved. Opposition Members have failed every single time they have ever been given an opportunity to do so, and they will do so again.
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
Bill Cash: Oh, come on!
Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
Bill Cash: Is the hon. Member aware that the Lord Chief Justice himself said, in a case on fixed penalty notices when the payment was made within 28 days, that it was not a crime, that the individual could not be prosecuted and that he had left the court without a stain on his character?
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19th July 2022
Bill Cash : 3 votes
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – Clause 7 – Regulation of goods: option to choose between dual routes
Voted no (division #46; result was 202 aye, 290 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – Clause 9 – Regulation of goods: new law
Voted no (division #47; result was 204 aye, 292 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – New Clause 15 – UK-EU Joint Committee: report to Parliament
Voted no (division #48; result was 202 aye, 287 no)
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20th July 2022
Bill Cash : 5 votes
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – Clause 13 – Implementation, application, supervision and enforcement of the Protocol
Voted no (division #49; result was 195 aye, 279 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – Clause 13 – Implementation, application, supervision and enforcement of the Protocol
Voted no (division #50; result was 194 aye, 274 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – Clause 26
Voted no (division #51; result was 194 aye, 274 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Voted no (division #52; result was 191 aye, 271 no)
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Voted aye (division #53; result was 264 aye, 194 no)
Speaker:Bill Cash : 5 Commons debates
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Bill Cash: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Bill Cash: It is a great pity that Stephen Doughty says I have not participated. I did not participate this afternoon, as the House can well understand, but what difference does it make? I spoke in Committee on previous days, and I spoke on Second Reading. We only have this Bill because of the work done by a number of people to ensure it got its Second Reading. I will leave it at that for the moment.
The hon. Gentleman, in his arguments on international law, and my right hon. Friend Mrs May and the other people whose assertions he quoted, are talking through their hats. The reason I say that is terribly simple: for those who have any knowledge of these matters—[Interruption.] Yes, I mean that. For those who understand these matters, this Bill is the only way to address the democratic deficit created by the protocol.
I am the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, and we receive a tsunami of legislation every single week that comes into Northern Ireland as a matter of EU law and binds voters and businesses, whom the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth claims to be trying to protect, without their having any involvement or influence. They have no protection from Westminster, and this Bill is so important because it gives back to the people of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, through a sovereign Act of the United Kingdom, the right to ensure that the people of Northern Ireland are listened to and protected.
This democratic deficit—[Interruption.] I see that some Opposition Members obviously know nothing about this Bill and its content, or any of the principles of international law that quite clearly—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth is shouting at me across the Chamber, but it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. He does not know what he is talking about, and some people who have studied this do.
The words on state necessity are “grave and imminent peril”. Nothing could be more perilous to the people of Northern Ireland than to be legislated for in absentia by an unelected Commission making proposals that are agreed in the Council of Ministers, behind closed doors, without so much as a transcript and by a majority of other countries.
Northern Ireland belongs to the United Kingdom, and it belongs to the democratic decision making of its people, just as constituencies such as mine do. I do not have to enlarge upon this but to say that the Bill is essential to protecting Northern Ireland and its constitutional integrity, irrespective of the rantings of those who claim it is a breach of international law when, actually, state necessity does provide an answer and a remedy to the democratic deficit that the hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand and clearly does not care about.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Bill Cash: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Bill Cash: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: New Clause 12 – Adjudications of matters pertaining to international law
Bill Cash: A number of assertions have been made during the course of this debate about the breaking of the international rule of law and the rest of it. Has the hon. Lady heard of the House of Commons Library paper that clearly indicates that de Valera himself broke the Anglo-Irish treaty in 1938? Not only that, but A. J. P. Taylor, in his extremely erudite book, also says that the treaty was ripped up by de Valera in 1938.
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