The constant bellowing from New Democrat Paul Miller has landed him in the back corner of the legislature.

The inveterate heckler was in the zone last Thursday when party leader Andrea Horwath, having had enough of his loud heckling, told him to “shut up.”

According to a witness from the adjacent Tories benches, that ticked off the MPP from Hamilton East—Stoney Creek who responded: “Don’t you tell me to shut up.”

It didn’t stop there. Horwath said something else that couldn’t be made out and Miller said, “Are you threatening me? Don’t you threaten me.”

Even veteran MPPs from the other parties were taken aback by the family squabble that included Miller telling Horwath he “had enough from her and her office.”

“What are going to do — throw me out of caucus?” Miller is quoted as saying.

He was informed by NDP House leader Gilles Bisson on Sunday he was being moved from the second row to the back corner.

“You have to ask Andrea and Gilles Bisson,” said Miller, when asked what happened.

Miller said he was “surprised” as anyone he that was being bounced.

Even though he is an assistant deputy speaker, Miller is the most warned MPP in the legislature but has never been kicked out, Speaker Dave Levac confirmed.

Because Horwath was absent from the legislature Monday, Bisson explained what happened.

“The reason he was moved is a very simple one. He heckles a lot and it is becoming to be a bit of a problem when the leader and others are trying to do questions and he’s heckling in that way and we moved him for those reasons,” Bisson said.

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Observers say the confrontation had been brewing for a while.

“There have been a lot of times when Andrea is visibly upset about Paul’s carping and quite often she will turn around and ask him to please calm down,” said a neighbouring Tory, who asked not to be named.

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