All 2 results for cuckoo speaker:Owen Smith

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 2 — Removal of restriction on standing for election for both constituency and electoral region (30 Apr 2014)

Owen Smith: ...may well have been foreseeable. Labour has acknowledged that it was a mistake to draft the legislation in such a fashion that it became possible for would-be Members of the Assembly to nest like cuckoos in individual constituencies for a period, anticipating their entry to the Assembly via the back door. However, we did not imagine that the measure would be used so shamelessly as it was by...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 4) Bill: (Except clauses 1, 4, 8, 189 and 209, schedules 1, 23 and 33 and certain new clauses and new schedules) - Clause 3 - Personal allowance for 2012-13 for those aged under 65 (26 Apr 2012)

Owen Smith: The phrase “cloud cuckoo land” has been bandied about in recent weeks. I am tempted to start by saying that the Minister may not be living in cloud cuckoo land, but he is certainly not someone who got up this morning and read the newspapers or went home yesterday evening and watched “Newsnight”. If he did watch it, it should have come screaming home to him that things were not going...


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