This guy sounds a charmer. Mr Chope

To be clear, I do think that PMB process needs reforming but limited debating time at the second stage is the least of their problems. There is debate at the report stage anyway and the Govt can grant extra time anytime they want - and at the moment there’s a lot of ‘dead’ debating time. Committee scrutiny is what really matters most of all anyway - most HofC debates are conducted with a very small number of MPs present and the real work of Parliament is carried out in Committees of all kinds. Off topic I remember the introduction of Select Committees which I still believe was one of the best democratic parliamentary reforms ever to come about and transformed the relationship between Parliament and Government. But the main point is that CC does not give a flying fig about anything except himself.

So Baggs you ate saying this man is governed by higher principles and not just being an awkward so-and-so?

It’s simply not true what you posted Baggs - PMB do have adequate debating time and CC is perfectly happy to be involved in PMB and not object when it suits him and other self entitled hypocrites. If he really cared about the issue, he’d be leading a proper campaign rather than posturing from the back benches. He’s a real second sorry third rater who we’ve only heard of because of this -a complete waste of space.

The blocking of the upskirting bill was only temporary. Whatever it was he blocked is now enshrined in law.

I think it will be similar with the FGM case.

Blocking means that bills are stopped, by people like Chope, from passing swiftly through parliament without having allotted debating time. A bill that's blocked can then get some debating time and be passed after a vote on that, so I don't think the strengthening of the FGM law that he blocked yesterday will be very long lived.

Besides which, FGM is already illegal. The problem is how few prosecutions there have been.

Saw a photo of him in a newspaper - he had a horrible smirk on his face. He isn't doing this for any "principle". We can only hope his local party call for him to be deselected.

As just one voice of dissent means the end of debate, perhaps it gives him a weird sense of power that he can stifle further discussion on these crucial issues. I don't think age means a person has lost their powers of reasoning (I would say that at 76!) but he seems to be out of touch with reality. He's making a fool of himself and hopefully will be deselected.

Oops, just checked, it was Anthony Royce a comparable sleazebag.

Eurgh
Chris Chope was I think our MP when we lived in Richmond. Couldn’t stand him then and he has done nothing to make me change my mind!

well said M0nica

I doubt the party will do anything about this sorry excuse for a human being who wouldn’t know a principle if it bit him on his nose. Although I can think of a better place I’d like him to be bitten.

Totally disgusting behaviour. Age is irrelevant he is an abomination. Girls are being cut indiscriminately and it needs to be stopped.

I might add that I am opposed to male circumcision performed on babies also.

His latest 'success' is in blocking a bill being put forward by Zac Goldsmith that would have added opposition to Female genital Mutilation to the Children Act.
Absolutely shocking behaviour.
This man needs the whip withdrawn, or whatever Theresa May is able to do to put a stop to his dreadful behaviour. He is the MP for Christchurch

I do not think that his age is relevant to the argument. It is a classic example of Ageism - he is over 70, what do you expect from an old man like that, too old to be an MP.

He has a long record as a fully paid up member of the awkward squad, nonentities have to do things like this to get anyone to pay any attention to them.

Just appalling - if there is a cause everyone, irrespective of party, could get behind- it is this one

He says he's doing it 'on principle' because he doesn't think laws should be made without a debate in Parliament. Which is odd, because they can be debated and passed through the same stages as any other bill. Though it is rare.

Yet he is not averse to presenting his own Private Members bills and supporting others

twitter.com/dlsgibson/status/1093888454340108288

Ah yes, the one who blocked the "upskirting" bill.