A Government MP has refuted claims by the Opposition’s Patricia Gordon-Pamplin that she was unfairly ordered out of the House of Assembly in the early hours of Saturday.

As reported yesterday, UBP member Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin said she felt Speaker Stanley Lowe was biased in favour of the PLP by throwing her out of the chamber, but not the Government backbencher she had a spat with.

Mr. Lowe took exception to language Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin used during an exchange of jibes with Glenn Blakeney, while both were seated and Finance Minister Paula Cox was on her feet dealing with a Public Accounts Committee report.

After he told her to leave, she exited the chamber telling Mr. Lowe: “Mr. Speaker, you need to grow up.”

Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin later told this newspaper she felt Mr. Blakeney should have been ticked off too — although Mr. Blakeney denied any wrongdoing. She also claimed that only members of the United Bermuda Party had been ordered out of the House by Mr. Lowe — a PLP MP — during her time in Parliament.

Hitting back yesterday, Walter Lister said: “There’s only two ways members can be put out of the House — that’s disrespect of the Speaker and violently disrespecting the rules. Mrs Gordon-Pamplin was guilty of both.”

He added that during his own 30 years in Parliament, equal numbers of Progressive Labour Party and United Bermuda Party MPs had been told to leave due to misbehaviour. “She’s saying that the Speaker is unfair. That’s a total fabrication,” said Mr. Lister. Mr. Lowe was unreachable by phone yesterday.