MP calls for 'hooter' to silence PM
By Ned Simons - 28th April 2011
A "hooter" should be installed in the Commons to correct the prime minister's factual errors, a Labour MP has suggested.
Kevin Brennan said the prime minister appeared to be "quite casual, some might say careless, with the facts".
He suggested a game show style "hooter" be installed on the clerk's desk that could be honked every time the prime minister made a factual error.
"It might prevent the patronising of people," he told MPs at the business statement in the Commons this morning.
Brennan was referring to yesterday's PMQs where Cameron caused a sexism storm after he tried to silence Labour's Angela Eagle by telling her to "calm down dear".
Eagle had been protesting at the PM's claim that a former Labour MP had lost his seat to a Tory candidate, when in fact he stood down from Parliament voluntarily.
The Leader of the House, Sir George Young, told Brennan: "Why should the hooter be confined to the PM? Why should it not apply to Members opposite?"
Some might say MPs do a good enough job of honking at each other during PMQs as it is.
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