Right Of “Slating”
If. his opponents “slated” him he had the right to “slate” them in return, the Minister of Public Works (Mr. R. Semple) stated at Stratford when an interjector suggested that Mir. Semple should move on from criticism of Mr. W. J. Poison, National member for Stratford, to facts. Mr. Semple was referring to Mr. Poison when he said: “He will say anything. He is not worth taking notice of. He doesn’t reason; he just cackles."’
After Mr. Semple had referred to Mr. W. Nash as “one of the shrewdest men” he had known, he was interrupted, and, referring to Mr. Poison, riposted; “Do you think I’m a dummy? He ‘slated’ my colleagues, and he ‘slated’ me. I have a right to ‘slate’ him. If you don’t like it,” he said to the interjector, “you can give your seat to someone who does.”
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Northern Advocate, 1 October 1938, Page 5
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