Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Northern Ireland Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Bob Russell Excerpts
Wednesday 30th November 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Frank Roy Portrait Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab)
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In every city and village in the country, home helps, carers, nurses and teachers are on strike for the very first time in their lives. These hard-working people—

Bob Russell Portrait Bob Russell (Colchester) (LD)
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You are not on strike.

Frank Roy Portrait Mr Roy
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Well, we hear laughter from the Government Benches, but this is no laughing matter to hard-working families. Are these hard-working people out-of-touch left-wing trade union militants, as demonised by the two parties on the Government Benches, or are they men and women who have said to the Government, “Enough is enough”?