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Originally Posted by nomadking
1) The hospitals can each set their own rules, so no new law needed.
2) If it's so simple, why didn't Labour introduce it? Why didn't the Labour MPs complain then?
3) In the examples given it has always just been about VISITING. Why should "official" carers get preferential treatment to VISIT. The caring is done by the hospital. Why should they get preferential treatment over "non-official" carers or family members?
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So if it's that self-evident why talk out an initial vote which wouldn't put this into law, but would merely allow it to progress to committee stage, just allowing it to cross the very initial stage of our 'democracy'?
This man is frankly a self-important tool who abuses parliamentary protocol. His most famous filibuster is of course when he, a landlord, alongside another Tory, talked out a bill that had cross-party support on revenge evictions. Essentially providing tenants a sliver of the protection they have in many countries in the first world.
He describes himself as an 'accidental landlord'. His rental property is in London, it's the one he claimed mortgage interest on before the rules changed. He claims expenses on a rented property in London and rents out the one he owns. What a guy.
Clearly, paraphrasing his website, someone who works in his constituents' interests, not his own self-interests.
Regrettably, thanks to our wonderful electoral system, he could probably eat babies and still get elected as he's in the right party for his constituency. He received 50% of the vote in Shipley in 2015, up 1.4%.