Can I make a suggestion that might help us out of this mess? Could we deal with my amendment ad seriatim, each of the three pieces of it? That way we can deal with Madam Freeman's two suggestions and then we can deal with the third part and vote on that, and in that way we'd deal with all the content of the original and we'd deal with Madam Freeman's concerns as well. Rather than dealing with it as a group, as you suggested, if we deal with those three parts ad seriatim, then we can move on to the Conservatives' amendment.
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.