Southside SOE Extended, UDP Rep Chides His Own Gov’t

In news from inside the house, today the motion that generated the most debate was one to extend the Southside state of emergency by two more months. The state of emergency was declared on July 6th and was to have ended on Thursday of this week. But today government passed a motion to extend it by 60 days. For this, the Prime Minister drew criticism form the man sitting right behind him, the retiring Wilfred Elrington, whose Pickstock Area is mostly within the Southside and has high levels of poverty and crime. Here's the PM introducing the motion, and Elrington's salty response - followed by Michael Finnegan's backhanded putdown of Elrington: