The Member of Parliament for the GOT Gillette Ad Thread, him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Davies
Might help explain why real estate values there are so low...
Davies has been repeatedly criticised for his use of the
filibuster to block legislation by talking at length, particularly when
private members' bills under the
Ten Minute Rule are debated.
In October 2015, Davies spoke for 93 minutes, thereby successfully blocking a proposed bill that would have given free hospital parking to carers. He had pledged his support for carers four months earlier.
In November 2015, Davies gave the longest speech in a sequence by Conservative MPs that resulted in 'talking out' a bill backed by
St. John Ambulance, the
British Red Cross, and the
British Heart Foundation to provide first-aid training to children.
Davies is on the governing council of
The Freedom Association pressure group, and is an organiser for the
Taxpayers' Alliance. He has called for government to "scrap the
Human Rights Act for foreign nationals and chuck them out of the country" and in 2016 expressed admiration for
Donald Trump.
Davies was criticised by a Liberal Democrat councillor as being "disgracefully reactionary" for his public comment that he wanted to see "an increase in the prison population".
In 2009, Davies called for the scrapping of the
minimum wage in the UK
Davies was the parliamentary spokesman for the inactive
Campaign Against Political Correctness and was accused of wasting the
Equality and Human Rights Commission's time by sending a stream of correspondence to its chair,
Trevor Phillips, between 2008 and 2009. In this correspondence, he asked questions relating to race and sex discrimination such as: "Is it offensive to black up or not, particularly if you are impersonating a black person?" and "Why it is so offensive to black up your face, as I have never understood this?"
Davies also asked whether it was racist for a policeman to refer to a BMW as "black man's wheels" and whether the
Metropolitan Black Police Association breaches discrimination law by restricting its membership to black people.
A complaint from Davies was sent to the Equality and Human Rights Commission in January 2017 that the
Jhalak Prize, a
literary prize intended to increase the diversity of published authors, was discriminatory towards white writers.
In May 2018, Davies said that police stop and search numbers had reduced dramatically as a result of "politically correct chatter". He said that black people are "more likely to be murderers".
In July 2016, Davies gave a speech on the justice gender gap at the International Conference of Men's Issues organised by
Justice for Men and Boys. He said: "I don’t believe there’s an issue between men and women. The problem is being stirred up by those who can be described as militant feminists and the politically correct males who pander to this nonsense". Objecting to the lower number of men who win in custody cases with their former partners, he said: "Many women use their children as a stick to beat the father with".
An International Men's Day debate, instigated by Davies, took place for the first time in the House of Commons on 17 November 2016. Davies rejected claims that it is a stunt and hoped it would become an annual event.
in December 2016, Davies talked for 78 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail a Bill designed to bring Britain in line with the
Istanbul Convention whose purported aim is to protect women against violence. He argued that the Bill was "sexist against men" because of its focus and ignored other victims which if recognised equally would have been "true equality".
Thangam Debbonaire, speaking after him, had to cut her own speech short in order to make sure his filibustering did not succeed. The bill was, however, passed by 135 to 2. At the bill's third reading on 24 February 2017, Davies spoke for 91 minutes and proposed amendments (which were defeated), but was unsuccessful in blocking the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill, which was passed by 138 votes to 1, with Davies being the only MP to vote against.
Davies has said in Parliament that some disabled workers are, by definition, not as productive in their work as others and that the minimum wage may be a "hindrance" to some disabled jobseekers.
Representatives from the mental illness charities
Mind and
Rethink Mental Illness called his suggestion "preposterous" and "seriously misguided". Davies' response was that the furore over his comments was "left-wing hysteria".
