Speeches by Christopher Famous, JP, MP

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. How are you doing?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, sometimes we get bogged down in the technicalities of stuff versus the ethos of stuff. Right? And let me just take a little trip back in time. Mr. Speaker, in 2011, I met this young lady in her capacity as a branch chair. So I was like, Okay. A young person as a branch chair, that is good. …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, with sprinkles on the top, blue and blue. Just like your tie, blue and blue. [Inaudible interjections]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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My point, Mr. Speaker, is often we get confused when we get in positions of influence that the position is about ourselves, how to enrich ourselves and people around us versus using that position to help the needy. I do not know the Bible verse, Mr. Speak er. (Happy Sabbath when it comes.) But there is a saying, The poor …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I have never in my entire life seen a Speaker have to get to his feet on a maiden speech. But I will get to it. Mr. Speaker, I am going to take up where I left off during Condolences. You see, one of things, Mr. Speaker, we have had in this country is what they call identity …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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But Mr. Speaker, when we knocked on his door the soul that he showed was not of whatever colour. He was like, Listen, we just want somebody who is going to come and take care of us. Take care of the parish. Take care of the neighbourhood and be there when we call you. Then Senator Diallo Rabain was elected …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So when I sit down and do the math, Mr. Speaker, at the last minute our National Hero entered the race. So ask yourself: If this is an OBA seat, how does someone take all those OBA votes? Must not be an OBA seat. [Inaudible interjection]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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I’ll get to you in a minute. [Inaudible interjections ]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So Mr. Speaker, a statistician says, Listen — [Inaudible interjections]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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I think you might want to turn around. [Inaudible interjection]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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I’m watching you too.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, somebody got 181 (that’s us). Somebody got 184; that was John Swan. And somebody got 209. If you do the math, that is almost a three- way split. That tells me it is not a safe seat. So someone in here need not be comfortable —

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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—because we are working that seat. We shall take that seat back. [Inaudible interjections]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So Mr. Speaker, I sat here and I listened to all this interloping and then they said, Oh, let’s work together. All that type of talk. But at the first bat it was all about division. I can’t quote no fancy things but you basically shared yourself, who you are, bro. Mr. Speaker, moving on. We had a moment earlier …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I am going to close here with something that you have stood to your feet about. A few months ago an OBA Member said, What’s happening in Gaza is not apartheid. He said it shouldn’t . . . people shouldn’t be looking at them so radically. They have the right to protect themselves. In afterthought, Mr. Speaker, [he’s] …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Because when you are bombing women and children—

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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—when you kill 100 people to rescue four, it is no longer apartheid. It is now genocide.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Right? Now I know we are a colony of the greatest colonisers in the world. So we as a Government cannot say much. But we as a party must say something, Mr. Speaker. We were never a party of bowing down to oppressors. We were never a party of going along t o get along because we want to get …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thirty -seven thousand! And there is going to be more because once they start digging up they are going to find more dead bodies. [Inaudible interjections]