• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    The three MPs will not receive their salaries during the suspension and will not be present during next week’s annual budget debate.

    There we have it. They’re making sure that Maori people won’t have representation when taking away their rights is debated again.

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      9 hours ago

      This sort of thing always strikes me as odd.

      There are agreed rules on language, some parliaments have dress code but besides penalties or fines a representative can be served with under no situation a representative can be barred from exercisizing their dutifully elected functions.

      I have representatives in my national assembly with criminal charges that none the less exercise as they have been elected.

      This is plainly stupid and abusive.

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        I don’t know about the NZ parliament, but in the UK parliament upon which it is based it absolutely possible for members to be thrown out of the chamber. It’s not even that rare. Famously Dennis Skinner was kicked out for calling them Prime Minister David Cameron “Dodgy Dave” and refusing to retract it.

        Are you quoting some rule or just your own expectation?

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          6 hours ago

          I’m in Portugal. I’ve seen direct insults exchanged between representatives, a clear violation of manners and language, and the representative was not removed from the chamber. Their word was removed, a sanction issued, but that was it. We have representatives with active criminal charges in place that were not removed.

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      11 hours ago

      Save this example for the next time some chud tries to tell you colonization is a past event and not an ongoing process right this minute