Editing Filibuster (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
In the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]], a bill defeated by a filibustering manoeuvre may be said to have been 'talked out'. The procedures of the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] require that members cover only points germane to the topic under consideration or the debate underway whilst speaking. Example filibusters in the Commons and Lords include:
* In 1874, [[Joseph Gillis Biggar]] started making long speeches in the House of Commons to delay the passage of [[Irish coercion acts]]. [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], a young Irish nationalist [[Member of Parliament]] (MP), who in 1880 became leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, joined him in this tactic to obstruct the business of the House and force the Liberals and Conservatives to negotiate with him and his party. The tactic was enormously successful, and Parnell and his MPs succeeded, for a time, in forcing Parliament to take the [[Irish Question]] of return to self-government seriously.
* In 1983, Labour MP [[John Golding (British politician)|John Golding]] talked for over 11 hours during an all-night sitting at the committee stage of the [[British Telecommunications]] Bill. However, as this was at a standing committee and not in the Commons chamber, he was also able to take breaks to eat.
* On July 3, 1998, Labour MP [[Michael Foster (Worcester MP)|Michael Foster]]'s Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill was blocked in Parliament by opposition filibustering.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
* In January 2000, filibustering directed by [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MPs to oppose the [[Disqualifications Act 2000|Disqualifications Bill]] led to the cancellation of the day's parliamentary business on [[Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]]'s 1,000th day in office. However, since this business included [[Prime Minister's Questions]], [[William Hague]], the Conservative leader at that time, was deprived of the opportunity of a high-profile confrontation with the Prime Minister.
* On Friday, April 20, 2007, a [[private member's bill]] aimed at exempting Members of Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act was 'talked out' by a collection of MPs, led by Liberal Democrats [[Simon Hughes]] and Norman Baker who debated for five hours, therefore running out of time for the parliamentary day and 'sending the bill to the bottom of the stack.' However, since there were no other private member's bills to debate, it was resurrected the following Monday.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-04-24 |title=MPs' info exemption bill revived |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6586131.stm |url-status=live |access-date=2010-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423221543/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6586131.stm |archive-date=2009-04-23}}</ref>
* In January 2011, Labour peers, including most notably [[John Prescott]], were attempting to delay the passage of the [[Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010]] until after February 16, the deadline given by the [[Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)|Electoral Commission]] to allow the referendum on the Alternative Vote to take place on May 5. On the eighth day of debate, staff in the House of Lords set up camp beds and refreshments to allow peers to rest, for the first time in eight years.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thomson |first=Ainsley |date=2011-01-17 |title=U.K. in Marathon Session on Voting Bill |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703396604576087740260334576?mod=googlenews_wsj |url-status=live |access-date=2017-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195116/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703396604576087740260334576?mod=googlenews_wsj |archive-date=2018-07-20}}</ref>
* In January 2012, Conservative and [[Scottish National Party]] MPs used filibustering to successfully block the Daylight Savings Bill 2010–12, a private member's bill that would put the UK on [[Central European Time]]. The filibustering included an attempt by [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]] to amend the bill to give the county of [[Somerset]] its own time zone, 15 minutes behind London.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 21, 2012 |title=Conservative backbenchers halt effort to move clocks forward |url=http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/01/conservative-backbenchers-halt-effort-to-move-the-clocks-forward.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617141753/http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/01/conservative-backbenchers-halt-effort-to-move-the-clocks-forward.html |archive-date=June 17, 2012 |access-date=July 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58wr9FVzO0 |title=Jacob Rees-Mogg Proposes Somerset Time Zone |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/n58wr9FVzO0 |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* In November 2014, Conservative MPs [[Philip Davies]] and [[Christopher Chope]] successfully filibustered a private member's bill that would have prohibited retaliatory evictions. Davies's speech was curtailed by Deputy Speaker [[Dawn Primarolo]] for disregarding her authority after she ordered Davies to wrap up his then hour-long speech. A closure motion moved by the government, which was agreed to 60–0, failed due to being inquorate.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2014 |title=Hansard |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/chan70.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075512/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/chan70.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=August 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fury as retaliatory evictions bill talked out of Commons |url=http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/fury-as-retaliatory-evictions-bill-talked-out-of-commons/7007119.article |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814222938/http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/fury-as-retaliatory-evictions-bill-talked-out-of-commons/7007119.article |archive-date=August 14, 2016 |access-date= June 15, 2016 |publisher=Inside Housing}}</ref>
* In October 2016 Conservative Minister [[Sam Gyimah]] filibustered a bill sponsored by [[John Nicolson (politician)|John Nicolson]] of the [[Scottish National Party]] that would pardon historic convictions for homosexual acts (which were no longer an offence), replacing an existing law that requires each pardon to be applied for separately.

The all-time Commons record for non-stop speaking, six hours, was set by [[Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux|Henry Brougham]] in 1828, though this was not a filibuster. The 21st century record was set on December 2, 2005, by [[Andrew Dismore]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP for [[Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)|Hendon]]. Dismore spoke for three hours and 17 minutes to block a Conservative private member's bill, the Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill, which he claimed amounted to "vigilante law".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-12-02 |title=MP's marathon speech sinks bill |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4492688.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313003900/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4492688.stm |archive-date=2007-03-13  |access-date=2023-01-18 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Although Dismore is credited with speaking for 197 minutes, he regularly accepted interventions from other MPs who wished to comment on points made in his speech. Taking multiple interventions artificially inflates the duration of a speech and thus may be used as a tactic to prolong a speech.

In local [[unitary authorities of England]] a motion may be carried into closure by filibustering. This results in any additional motions receiving less time for debate by councillors instead of forcing a vote by the council under closure rules.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}

====Northern Ireland====
A notable filibuster took place in the [[Northern Ireland House of Commons]] in 1936 when [[Tommy Henderson]] (Independent Unionist MP for Shankill) spoke for nine and a half hours (ending just before 4 a.m.) on the Appropriation Bill. As this bill applied government spending to all departments, almost any topic was relevant to the debate, and Henderson used the opportunity to list all of his many criticisms of the Unionist government.