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Yesterday the Deputy Speaker interrupted a Conservative MP in the middle of a speech when he spotted the MP looking at a Blackberry-type device when reading out the text of a letter he was referring to.
MPs are allowed to check and send emails from electronic devices in the Commons chamber, and are allowed to give speeches from written notes. But it seems that the Deputy Speaker felt that reading from an electronic device during a speech was to be ‘discouraged’. He allowed the MP to continue but said he would refer to it, another way of saying he would think about it afterwards.
In one respect, I have sympathy with the Deputy Speaker for the proliferation of Blackberries and those mobile phones which are also mini computers are a nuisance and a distraction.
On the other hand, reading a letter from a Blackberry doesn’t seem any different from reading from the letter itself.
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Yesterday the Deputy Speaker interrupted a Conservative MP in the middle of a speech when he spotted the MP looking at a Blackberry-type device when reading out the text of a letter he was referring to.
MPs are allowed to check and send emails from electronic devices in the Commons chamber, and are allowed to give speeches from written notes. But it seems that the Deputy Speaker felt that reading from an electronic device during a speech was to be ‘discouraged’. He allowed the MP to continue but said he would refer to it, another way of saying he would think about it afterwards.
In one respect, I have sympathy with the Deputy Speaker for the proliferation of Blackberries and those mobile phones which are also mini computers are a nuisance and a distraction.
On the other hand, reading a letter from a Blackberry doesn’t seem any different from reading from the letter itself.
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