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Andrew Dickens: Is casual clothing in the house acceptable? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The House was hilarious yesterday when sim Peter's turned into
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  Speaker 1: a grumpy old Conservative, a role he assumes to hoover
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  Speaker 1: up votes from his constituents, rather than the stately foreign
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  Speaker 1: minister image he shows to the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the thing? He complained that Ricardo Menender's
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  Speaker 1: march the Green MP wore a leather jacket in the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was a glossy little number. Question is is it
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  Speaker 1: disrespectful raising the question about clothes in the workforce? You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you wear a fifteen hundred dollar designer leather jacket,
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  Speaker 1: is that less respectful than someone wearing a three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollar sales suit from laid Law and leeds from Farmers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, things have obviously loosened. Our big boss here
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  Speaker 1: wears a jacket, but I've never ever seen him in
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  Speaker 1: a tie. Casual Friday has become casual weekday. And I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't worried about Ricardo's leather jacket, even though it gave
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  Speaker 1: off boy George vibes and he looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: off to a disco. He obviously took care in his
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  Speaker 1: look and he turned up well groomed, even if he
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  Speaker 1: did look like a clown. And it's not called the
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  Speaker 1: House of Representatives for nothing. It should be representative of
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  Speaker 1: all of us, including leather wearers. And I've sometimes wondered
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  Speaker 1: at the ensembles that appear on our screens worn by
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  Speaker 1: public servants at MPs. You know, some of them are
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  Speaker 1: very fancy. Many are obviously expensive, purchased on wages provided
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  Speaker 1: by the taxpayers, flaunting your public purse wealth at us
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  Speaker 1: public servants. But the biggest problem with Ricardo Menenz's leather
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  Speaker 1: jacket is that it's leather. I thought Riccardo was a
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  Speaker 1: green MP, opposed to products derived from animal cruelty. The
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  Speaker 1: thing about symbolism is that it is symbolic, and Ricardo's
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  Speaker 1: leather jacket screamed hypocrisy. For more from Early edition with
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