One of Cameron’s senior aides has been sending emails to Conservative MPs, urging them to provide a “protective wall of sound” against Labour party criticism especially by its leader Ed Miliband through shouting and heckling when he speaks, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Cameron’s parliamentary private secretary Desmond Swayne has been sending emails to 280 Conservative MPs before the Prime Minister’s Question, held each Wednesday, to urge them to heckle Labour MPs when they speak.
In one of those emails after the comments by International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde who said Britain needs the spending cuts the government is implementing, Swayne called on his fellow party members to “show sufficient stamina for full half hour” when Miliband can speak.
“Given the ‘shivers’ of Christine Lagarde I hope you will agree with me that it will be appropriate for Ed Milliband [sic] to be greeted when he rises … with vociferous demands for an apology,” the email read.
“Last week we rather dried up as the half hour wore on, and comrades at the end of the order paper did not enjoy as vociferous support as they deserved … Please show sufficient stamina for full half hour,” it added.
Another email read, “I anticipate lots of LoL gags so let’s have a protective wall of sound. If Ed even grudgingly acknowledges anything positive in today’s unemployment figures then instantaneously bring down the roof ‘yereyereyere…”
This comes as chanting, booing and interrupting other MPs in the House is banned under the regulations that date back to 1693.
The regulations say the offenders “shall incur the displeasure and censure of the House.”
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