Christopher Chope

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Apologies if there’s a thread on this already. I did check but the search function on here is hopeless. MP Christopher Chope strikes again by blocking an anti-FGM bill. There are no words...

No words indeed. The man makes my skin crawl.

There’s a thread in AIBU. Interestingly in there he apparently only votes against private member bills which can send a person to jail. He believes these bills should (rightly I think) be fully brought to the attention of and debated by parliament.

For info he voted for the upskirting law when it was fully debated in parliament once he’s stopped the PMB. The FGM bill will be fully debated in parliament in March, will be interesting to see how he votes then (and if the media as widely reports that).

He says thats what he does YourDaughter, but in reality what he does is not interfere with his mates bills and even puts his own up, he just (by huge coincidence im sure) objects and finds his supposed principals when its womens rights being brought up.

People still voting for this, in 2019.

But do the bills he has let by put people in jail?

Not disagreeing, would just be interesting to see a list of what he has ‘let through’ and what he has stopped rather than ‘who proposed it’.

Here’s a list collated by ITV.

In July 2017, Chope and Peter Bone, the Conservative MP for Wellingborough, tabled 73 bills between them, of which 47 were placed by Chope.In order to be at the front of the queue to table the bills, the pair had camped in the Palace of Westminster for three days. Chope's bills included legislation to privatise the BBC and Channel 4, limit the interest rate chargeable on student loan debt (and forgive it in certain circumstances), reduce stamp duty, and decriminalise TV licence-dodging. Because of the number of slots for bills they took, Chope and Bone were criticised for their actions.

(from the Bournmouth Echo and They Work For You website)

Gaze in wonderment at his voting record.

www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10103/christopher_chope/christchurch/votes

This is also the man who through a hissy fit about a debate on Hillsborough because he wanted to debate MP's pension rises.

*threw