Sign the petition to have Christopher Chope stripped of his knighthood

[Polynerd]

Here it is: if angered by his behaviour re the upskirting bill, please consider signing.
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It should be back on July 6th for debate again.

It gets properly debated I believe.

Well that’s good. As a long time resident of the Athens Of The North I’m well aware that the abomination that was the St, James centre was pushed through sneakily over Xmas when no one was looking at planning applications, and resulted in the bulldozing of a lovely Georgian square.

So while he is a misogynistic dinosaur maybe he has done some good.

Why are MPs not 'registered' in and out and therefore pay removed if not present.
Any other job would lose pay if you don't turn up.

It's a shame he choose this way to express a valid opinion on a separate issue.

This from the Guardian. Double standards?

Bills don't pass on one reading. They also have to pass the House of Lords.

Chope could choose to do something about the system and poor turnout, if he genuinely think the system is broken.

Guido tonight are claiming that "He says it’s principle but the truth is he lets his mates’ bills through…"

I'd like to see a list of PMBs that have been passed without him objecting.

I would like people to follow him to the loos and take photos of his private member.

Signed. What a scumbag

More on Chope's own PMBs: www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15441893.amp/?__twitter_impression=true

So those PMBs were all bad were they? Some of them seem eminently sensible and justifiable - reducing stamp duty on residential homes is bad? Raising the VAT threshold is bad? Preventing people from boting twice (we know it happened in the last GE by students) is bad?

The point is not that his PMBs are all bad. The point is his hypocrisy in blocking others' because he doesn't approve of the procedures but then himself using said procedures.

Signed.

Not signed. I do not accept the need for a separate "upskirting" bill. It is more than adequately covered in existing law.

Just googled to see if anyone had started a petition to get this awful man deselected - or worse - and found good ol' MN top of the google list. In the past, according to Sky news, he has also blocked legislation intended to give police dogs and horses extra legal protections from attack and talked out attempts to reform mental health units. He repeatedly blocked attempts to ban the use of wild animals in circuses, and also blocked Alan Turing's posthumous pardon. He 'talked-out' a bill to make it illegal for landlords to evict tenants who complained about housing and ensured a bill to exempt carers from hospital car park charges was batted down.

How can one man have been allowed to hurt so many innocent people - and animals? How can the people of Christchurch still elect
him?!

Signing

I do not accept the need for a separate "upskirting" bill. It is more than adequately covered in existing law.

I’m not sure it is actually. Didn’t prosecutions fail previously because of some gap or loophole in the educating legislation? Rather like online revenge porn.

He wants to bring in a bill to make people pay for GP and hospital appointments.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/mps-debate-introducing-charges-patients-14643256#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Signed. Thank you OP.

He's a fucking knight?

Goes off to actually read thread

Chope seems to have taken pleasure in being a fairly unpleasant character for a long time. To me the bigger question is why he was knighted at all.

Or why people vote for him. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Whatever the rights or wrongs of him rejecting it just like that (I was annoyed when I heard it), it does mean that "upskirting" now has more publicity than before - it was the first word spoken on the Radio Four 6 o'clock news earlier this week. Perhaps that's a good unintended consequence, that there's now more awareness of it? Although we would have liked it to be have been passed (and it may yet be), it would have had much less airtime if it had quietly gone through. He's also drawn attention to himself, for better or for worse.

Have a look at what else this man has blocked. There's a theme. Less about the rigours of the law, more about views of women and gays.

I agree with him that all laws should be properly debated. The Houses of Parliament need a massive shakeup.
Filibustering needs to go.
Constituency time should be built into the HoP timetable so we don't end up with a handful of MPs potentially waving a new law through.
And proportional representation...

I became a regular on on here (as did others, I suspect) because of the proposed amendments to the GRA - via a private members' bill sponsored by Maria Murray.

So I can sort of see where he's coming from.