British Parliamentary · CG · Proposition · second speaker
Government Whip GW
The closing proposition speaker in CG. The board counts GW speeches from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events do not distort the rankings.
33,752GW speeches on record
76.3Average speaker score
87Highest on record
11,620Debaters who've given it
Best GW speeches on record
The highest speaker scores ever given from this seat.
| Debater | Score | Motion | Tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇹Marina K. | 87 | This House Would dissolve the position of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 |
| Speaker A. | 87 | This House Regrets the rise of TikTok trends that encourage self-diagnosis of mental health conditions. | ANU Winter 2022 |
| Devashish T. | 87 | THS non-violent property damage (e.g. blowing up pipelines, sabotaging logging equipment etc.) in order to stop climate change | NALSAR IV 2021 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 87 | This House Believes that feminists in Western Liberal Democracies should adopt reconciliatory rather than confrontational approaches in their advocacy | Panama WUDC 2025 2024 |
| Fiachra N. | 87 | This House Supports the legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales | LSE Open 2025 |
| 🇬🇧Ahmed S. | 87 | THBT The Pacific Alliance should introduce a common currency | Madrid WUDC 2023 2022 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 86 | THW would give industry representatives (e.g unions or professional associations) a veto over political appointments made in their area of expertise (e.g. bar associations when selecting judges, teachers unions when appointing an Education Minister, etc.) | Doxbridge Pre-WUDC 2022: So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish |
| 🇬🇧Joseph L. | 86 | THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia | KCL Open 2021 |
| 🇬🇧Teck T. | 86 | This House, as Iran, would cease all support for militant groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.) | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
| 🇬🇧Umar B. | 86 | THBT schools should teach about history as a product of clashes between social forces which represent different material conditions, rather than the product of clashes between different ideas and perspectives | Call Out 2022 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 86 | THW would give industry representatives (e.g unions or professional associations) a veto over political appointments made in their area of expertise (e.g. bar associations when selecting judges, teachers unions when appointing an Education Minister, etc.) | Doxbridge Pre-WUDC 2022 |
| 🇺🇸Enting L. | 86 | THS political centrism (e.g. favouring moderate policies and bipartisan approaches to political engagement, "reaching across the aisle") as a dominant political ideology. | Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2022 |
Best motions for GW
The motions where GW speakers score highest on average.
| Motion | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| THS the use of doxxing by the Left to counter the harrassment of women | 22 | 78.6 |
| THP a world in which Islam had a strong central authority since inception (cf. the papacy in Catholicism) | 88 | 77.8 |
| Assuming the prevalence of any given gene in the total human population remains the same, THP a world where babies were born with a random genetic profile, rather than one inherited from their parents | 86 | 77.8 |
| THBT parents should primarily use reward power rather than legitimate power when trying to modify behaviour | 22 | 77.7 |
| THW allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness | 22 | 77.7 |
| THS the transition of media coverage of sports to social media (e.g. athletes promoting themselves on social media, sports associations streaming games for free online) at the expense of traditional sports journalism (e.g. televising of games on TV, journalists providing long-form features of athletes) | 88 | 77.5 |
| THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations. | 78 | 77.5 |
| THBT Southeast Asian nations should actively move towards the consolidation of a regional alliance at the expense of seeking stronger ties with non-regional allies (e.g. by forming closer intra-ASEAN defence ties, increasing ASEAN economic integration etc). | 80 | 77.4 |
How GW scores by motion category
Average GW speaker score on each kind of motion, from the same majors-and-strong-field set.
| Category | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Religion | 1214 | 76.6 |
| Arts & Culture | 978 | 76.5 |
| Environment | 628 | 76.4 |
| Comedy & Novelty | 232 | 76.4 |
| Health & Medicine | 752 | 76.4 |
| Social & Identity | 6823 | 76.3 |
| Law & Crime | 2257 | 76.3 |
| Politics | 3975 | 76.3 |
| Education | 1822 | 76.3 |
| Sport | 1358 | 76.3 |
| Pop Culture | 296 | 76.3 |
| Economics | 5316 | 76.2 |
Debaters who specialise
The highest average speaker scores from the GW seat, among debaters with 4+ scored speeches.
| Debater | Speeches | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇱Hadar G. | 11 | 83.4 |
| 🇦🇺Amrit A. | 4 | 83.0 |
| 🇭🇷Lovro Š. | 8 | 82.9 |
| 🇬🇧Teck T. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇺🇸Shayor K. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇵🇭Ignacio V. | 6 | 82.7 |
| 🇭🇷Tin P. | 5 | 82.4 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 52 | 82.3 |
| 🇲🇾Kuberan K. | 9 | 82.2 |
| 🇧🇩Sajid K. | 4 | 82.0 |