Clause 17 - Section 16: supplementary
European Parliament (Representation) Bill
4:30 pm
Mr William Cash (Stone, Conservative)
Yes, it is. It is three words, and each one is meant equally. It is astonishing that a matter of this importance should be subject to annulment. [Interruption.] I see the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Paul Farrelly) tittering a bit at the back.
I hope that he appreciates that it is a matter of great importance, relating to people who could affect his constituents or mine, if we were to translate the territory of Gibraltar to an equivalence with our own constituencies. We would be truly concerned if these procedures were applied to our constituents. The hon. Gentleman has been a good constituency Member of Parliament in relation to a matter on which he and I worked together closely recently. He was anxious to protect the part of his constituency that was affected by certain development proposals. I am sure that if the situation of the Gibraltarians were translated to his constituency, he would not be sitting at the back of the Room and tittering. I am making an important point.