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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s hardly “games” to use their allotted time to discuss an issue that they’ve been vocal about, in Holyrood and at Westminster, for months.
It’s one of biggest global issues at present and one that the SNP disagree fundamentally with the Government. The calendar may have given the SNP some luck.
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The game is designing a motion that the Labour leadership can't vote for in the hope their backbenchers would rebel. If they wanted the motion to pass they could have addressed the concerns of the Labour Party and the Lib Dems to come up with a motion that had cross-party appeal. The Lib Dems tried to work with them, but the SNP rejected it.
All three parties were playing politics trying to cause issues for each other. The Tories and SNP were essentially trying to snooker Labour into an awkward position, the speaker bailed them out.