Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Feb 2012 Police
"If the hon. Gentleman is so clear in his mind that the number of police on the streets does not necessarily correlate with the effective combat of crime, will he explain why the Liberal Democrat election manifesto—I realise he was not responsible for it—promised 3,000 more police on the streets?..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I completely understand what you have just said, but again and again when I come to the Chamber for time-limited debates, I find that huge amounts of time are taken. The Minister spoke for three quarters of an hour in a three-hour …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"It is undeniable that under this Government, in the year and three quarters for which they have been in office, the police have suffered serious setbacks in funding and staffing, and are doomed to suffer far more. The excellent record of the Greater Manchester police force in crime reduction and …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"I will, although the hon. Gentleman has not been here for the debate and just came into the Chamber a few minutes ago. If he wants to intervene on me, he can do so...." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"The hon. Gentleman could have said that to the chief constable himself if he had bothered to turn up for the briefing yesterday evening.
The cuts that are going to take place will damage what Greater Manchester police has been able to achieve. There is a shortfall of £134 million …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"This Bill has not had a good reception on either side of the House of Commons. Several hon. Members have referred to the impact of these changes on women who suffer domestic violence and who will be ineligible for legal aid under the Bill because the evidence that they will …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware—he certainly should be because I have told him a number of times—of the dire effect upon my constituents of the action he has taken already in attacking citizens advice bureaux, undermining legal aid and taking the wrecking ball to the South Manchester …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"My right hon. Friend might be aware that a document issued by the Liberal Democrats in June last year stated:
“The issue of the arrest warrant for a war crime is decided only by specialist legally qualified magistrates such as the most senior district judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. They …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech
"We heard one Liberal Democrat voice. May I, in the remaining two minutes, quote the Liberal Democrat document which I have already quoted with regard to Tzipi Livni, who has been mentioned? It says:
“Tzipi Livni, as Israeli Foreign Minister, was one of those responsible for authorising these attacks”—
"I will not give way, because I have only two minutes.
That is the person whom this lot are trying to acquit of the right even to be prosecuted, and even the issuing of a warrant against her. Her parents were terrorists who murdered great numbers of people. She was …..." Gerald Kaufman - View Speech