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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
What's your alternative suggestion?
I get it, you're disappointed with the MPs - all parties and especially the political games they play for no public benefit. But what can be practically done about it? The whole political system with whips, loyalty, etc is a difficult one to break.
Unless the nasties trying to usurp democracy eventually gain power.
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Correct - apart from the greyed-out phrase. We must keep 7-Oct in mind and also consider what is a proportional response to roasted babies.
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Too late - the party that unlawfully prorogued Parliament, imposed Voter ID laws when there was no need just to favour themselves, barred colleges and universities from registering their students to vote, brought in voting for emigrants who don't live in the UK*, taken away the Electoral Commission's independence and ability to prosecute, and extensively uses Henry VIII Statutory Instument powers allow ministers to make changes to not only secondary legislation but also primary legislation (Acts of Parliament), without having to go through the full process that an Act of Parliament would normally require to avoid scrutiny in Parliament, have been in power for 14 years...
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by Statutory Instrument, with no Parliamentary Scrutiny