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Originally Posted by Damien
I think this is a specific incidence of private members bills and the time allotted to them meaning you can run out the clock on getting it passed. You couldn't do this to any government introduced legislation I think.
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Correct, if this was government business then it couldn’t have been stopped in this way.
It doesn’t look good from a PR point of view but Chope does have a point. Parliament should not be passing laws that can result in a two-year jail sentence without proper debate and scrutiny, no matter how worthy the cause.