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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social |
Last night the House of Commons somehow passed a Lib Dem amendment that MPs arrested for serious offences should be excluded from the house. Conservative MPs today are furious - for some reason - blaming the Whips office for failing.
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Sheila Ritchie
@europesheila.bsky.social
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Proposed by my very good friend, Wendy Chamberlain. Although her language on this issue at a private dinner last night was not hugely PC. 😂😂
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Stephen Cox Author only more so
@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social
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Department of 'why the .... is this not the law'. You can pair, so it has little impact on voting For most purposes the constituency is not disenfranchised
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Ed Wilson
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The resolution approving a system to restrict MPs' access to the Commons on arrest was passed without a vote.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024...
The controversy came earlier when deciding whether restriction should apply at arrest or at charge. Arrest was decided by a single vote.
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Mary Branscombe
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so if that covers tax on council houses, it will take out 4 Tory MPs as well as (maybe maybe not) Angela Rayner
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Mark Chadbourn
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In most workplaces if you’re arrested for rape you don’t get to roll up and hang out at the coffee machine until the case has been resolved. But then an inordinate number of Conservative MPs have been questioned by the Law on rape offences in recent years…
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Môr Leidr
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Brilliant
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Woodo
@woodo.bsky.social
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Why would you be furious about something being implemented that is not only standard across every other workplace up and down the country, but also one that only affects people arrested for serious offences, unless... ... ...
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Schroedingercat
@schroedingercat.bsky.social
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Hey yall can brag about being better than America on that
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Dexter Crisp
@dextercrisp.bsky.social
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"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" - Iain Duncan Smith
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Gavin Smith
@smithg.bsky.social
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Is it retrospective? Any Conservative MPs likely to be affected ?
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Currently working on a CFP submission
@glitchknitter.bsky.social
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It's because it's gonna affect nearly all of them, isn't it (good)
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From Lichen Glen
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Tom Lloyd
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