6 hours agoBritish politician lies down and sleeps in Parliament
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The chairman of the Great Britain's Lower House of Parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has been highly criticised because of the body's alignment in the institution's first order of seats during the long debate on Brexi. The Speaker of the Lower Chamber was accused of showing disrespect for the assembly with the gesture [...]
The Speaker of the Lower Chamber was charged with showing a lack of respect for the assembly with his gesture at the time when MPs were debating the way Brex is prevented without agreement with the European Union.
Green Party Speaker Caroline Lucas criticised the chairman directly and in a harsh tone. She said: Much has been said about democracy and the chairman of the assembly, which I have to say has shown disrespect for the assembly and the people”.
She added that the mayor has been lying in the space for three people and is looking like he's hearing something boring.
“A can tell him that when we were given a speech on democracy, we received nothing from them”, said the head of the greens, Caroline Lucas.
Despite MPs asking the mayor to sit down like others, it seemed he did not care about the criticism of MPs after not changing his body position at all, writes “Independent”
