9. United Kingdom Independence Party Debate: The European Union

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:04 pm on 27 March 2019.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 6:04, 27 March 2019

Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. Well, we've had a spirited and vigorous debate. We've heard complaints about the amount of abuse that is hurled around in this, and the loudest complainants seem to be no mean practitioners of the art of hurling abuse themselves—the Member for Blaenau Gwent, one of my favourites in this place, and the leader of Plaid Cymru, who has recently, of course, got into hot water for the epithets that he hurled at the First Minister himself. I think it's a shame that we do have personal abuse, but, as there's been a fair bit of it dumped onto UKIP in the course of this debate, I think I shall take the complaints with a pinch of salt, not least from another of my favourites, the Minister, who was particularly excoriating in the adjectives that she applied to us and the motives behind the motion. But, when somebody like Owen Smith, the Armani-suited Member of Parliament for Pontypridd, can tweet that the majority of his constituents who voted for Brexit are racists, xenophobes and right-wing reactionaries, then it's not for the Labour Party, I think, to complain about the language that is used in this debate today.