BP DEBATING: STRUCTURE & ROLE FULFILMENT Speaker’s Development, Week 2 Karolien Michiels

Today’s Topics (1) The format of British Parliamentary Debating (2) The basic format of any speech Exercise 1 (3) The specific roles in BP debating Exercise 2

British Parliamentary debating Speaking order: - 1PROP: Prime Minister - 1OPP: Leader of the Opposition - 1PROP: Deputy Prime Minister - 1OPP: Deputy Leader Opposition - 2PROP: Member of Government - 2OPP: Member of Opposition - 2PROP: Government Whip - 2OPP: Opposition Whip

Exercise 1  Groups of four  Put the descriptions of the roles in the right speaking order

Structure of each speech: general  Introductiontell me what you’re going to tell me  (Rebuttal)  Point 1tell me  Point 2  …  Brief summarythen tell me what you’ve told me

Exercise 1  Groups of four  5 minutes preparation time  1min 30sec speech  Introduction, three substantive points, brief summary

Specific Roles: 1PROP Prime Minister:  Explain the problem with the status-quo  Explain what your solution is: the mechanism  Explain why it is a good solution Deputy Prime Minister:  Further explain why it is a good proposal  Explain why the arguments of 1OPP are not true/ not relevant/not important (enough)

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Specific Roles: 1OPP Leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition:  Explain why the model proposed by 1PROP will not work  Also explain why the proposal of 1PROP will bring other/bigger/more important harms  If you want, explain why you disagree with the way 1PROP sees the problem, and/or why it isn’t a (big) problem

Specific Roles: 2 PROP  You are not allowed to ‘knife’ 1PROP! Extension speaker:  Explain that there is another, even more important reason why we should do this motion  Bring in new arguments or make the old ones better (but add something!) Summary speaker:  ‘Summarize’ in really biased way. OPP is wrong and your partner’s argument won the debate

Specific Roles: 2 OPP Extension speaker:  Give more reasons why PROP are wrong  Engage with the extension  Give bigger or more important harms than 1OPP  Listen carefully; don’t rely on your prep too much Summary speaker:  ‘Summarize’ in really biased way. PROP is wrong and your partner’s argument won the debate

Exercise 2: A Debate  THW (=This House would) make drugs freely available  Why would someone want to do that?  Why would someone oppose that?  What other consequences will there be?

Speeches & POIs  5-minute speeches  1 minute protected time at beginning and end  3 minutes for Points of Information  Only take 1 POI  Only when you’re ready  15 seconds

THW provide drugs through the gov  Why?  They’re going to get it anyway  They would it through dealers  Stop crime – REDUCE CRIME  Control addiction: medical supervision – BETTER HEALTH  Consent  Stop funding drug cartels – REDUCE CRIME  Better drugs – CONSUMER RIGHTS  Tax it – FAIRER TAX SYSTEM  To raise insurance cost  Save the addicts money - GOAL  Because drugs provide a clear benefit – BETTER PARTIES  To control the people