Quote of the Day: Eric Joyce MP
Posted on February 2, 2012Police are still investigating an alleged assault in the Strangers’ Bar last night.
Reports of violence in the House of Commons are mercifully rare, but this sheltered life does lead some MPs to be woefully ignorant of how common and terrifying such occurrences are for their constituents.
I was pleased to see from Hansard that at least one MP has done fact-finding patrols with the police to find out how such problems arise outside Westminster:
“I go about my constituency occasionally with the cops on a Friday or Saturday night. We see a bit of violence in the streets and recognise where it comes from, what is happening and who the bad guys are—who has been caught up in things because they have drunk too much and so on.” – Eric Joyce MP, 31 March 2009
Well said…
Tags: Alcohol, Alleged crimes, Eric Joyce MP, Labour, MPs, New Labour, Parliament, Politics, Strangers' Bar, Westminster
Categories: Politics, Westminster
I blame the availability of cheap alcohol, if prices were higher this sort of
thing wouldn’t happen
23.02.2012 15:23
In a speech given at a hospital in the North East the general public said they were in favour of a minimum price per unit on all alcoholic drinks for MPs.
23.02.2012 19:32