Rules of Britisth Parliamentary Formally all speakers in a debate are meant to do certain things In real terms these are guides to having a constructive debate and being persuasive Your ultimate goal is to persuade the average reasonable voter of your side of the motion not f ID: 291320
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Role FulfilmentSlide2
“Rules” of Britisth Parliamentary
Formally all speakers in a debate are meant to do certain things
In real terms these are guides to having a constructive debate and being persuasive
Your ultimate goal is to persuade the “average reasonable voter” of your side of the motion – not following these rules would make that very difficultSlide3
Opening Government (OG)
Closing Government (CG)
Opening Opposition (OO)
Closing Opposition (CO)
Prime Minister
3. Deputy Prime Minister
5. Member of Government (MG)
7. Government Whip (GW)
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. Member of Opposition (MO)
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. Opposition Whip (OW)
2. Leader of Opposition (LO)
4. Deputy Leader of Opposition (DLO)
TOP HALF
BOTTOM HALFSlide4
Opening Government (OG)
1. Prime
Minister
Set up the debate i.e.
definitions, mechanism, criteria.
Problem, mechanism/solution, why it works.
Two of the most important arguments and an additional argument.
3. Deputy Prime MinisterRespond to Leader of Opposition’s arguments.Defend PM’s arguments against LO’s refutations.
One key NEW argument.A further argument (stakeholder analysis).Slide5
Opening Opposition (OO)
2. Leader
of Opposition
Respond
directly to Prime Minister’s arguments.
Set up
team-line/principle.
Three arguments.
4. Deputy Leader of OppositionRespond to Deputy Prime Minister’s arguments.
Defend LO’s arguments against DPM’s refutations.Provide two or three new arguments.Slide6
Closing Government (CG)
5. Member
of Government
(Extension Speaker
)
Refute OO (especially DLO’s arguments)
Make two/three NEW arguments ORProvide FAR more detail on OG’s argument(s
).7. Government Whip (Summary Speaker)
Respond directly to Member of Opposition’s arguments (the only one on Gov bench who can).Summarise debate, explaining why Government won BUT emphasising in particular the arguments you brought in CG.Structure: clash pointsSlide7
Closing Opposition (CO)
6. Member of Opposition (Extension Speaker)
Refute Member of Government’s extension (has to be done here and not in the summary).
Two/three extension arguments.
8. Opposition Whip (Summary Speaker)
Defend MO’s extension against GW’s rebuttal.
Summarise debate, emphasising MO’s extension as being key to it being won by Opposition.Slide8
Points of Information
A short (15 second maximum) interjection from a speaker on the opposite bench
The person speaking is expected to respond directly to the POI if possible
The person speaking always has the right to decline a POI
Should accept at least 1 – but too many will get in the way of your speech