MP Philip Davies on standing up for his views – “The place where bullying happens most is in the House of Commons”

Dec 21, 2016 by Jill

by Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home:

Philip Davies has an extraordinary gift for annoying what he calls “the PC brigade”. In recent days, the Conservative MP for Shipley has attracted adverse comment for trying to talk out a Bill to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women.

In this interview, Davies reiterates his stubborn commitment to “gender equality”, dismisses the convention as “gesture politics”, and challenges his critics to produce one scrap of evidence that he is a “woman-hater”.

He also calls for longer sentences for violent crime and says “the place where bullying happens most is in the House of Commons”, with the result that very few Conservative MPs are prepared to say what they actually think. Instead, most of them “always want to be kowtowing to this Labour agenda” and are “ashamed of being Conservative”.

He adds that the media “are far more powerful in this than they ever imagine”, and suggests that if journalists want MPs who are courageous enough to speak out, they should praise them for doing so instead of condemning them.

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