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arkady - can't yet find anything online & don't have a radio/TV here)
Update: Below does not seem to be accurate after all, according to folk watching it on Parliament Live. Bother. So back to keeping thumbs crossed....
Further update: Hurrah, it has now passed after all. Yay.
The Hunting Bill has passed with a majority of 182.
Hurrah.
(though it's not over yet, etc - I *assume* it was passed with the 18 month delay in implementation, but it's likely that the Lords won't pass the Bill which I believe means it would go back to the original 3-month delay in implementation. And that's assuming they use the Parliament Act, though I can't imagine that they would go through all the kerfuffle of bringing it back & then *not* use the PA).
Still hurrah :-)
arkady - can't yet find anything online & don't have a radio/TV here)Update: Below does not seem to be accurate after all, according to folk watching it on Parliament Live. Bother. So back to keeping thumbs crossed....
Further update: Hurrah, it has now passed after all. Yay.
Hurrah.
(though it's not over yet, etc - I *assume* it was passed with the 18 month delay in implementation, but it's likely that the Lords won't pass the Bill which I believe means it would go back to the original 3-month delay in implementation. And that's assuming they use the Parliament Act, though I can't imagine that they would go through all the kerfuffle of bringing it back & then *not* use the PA).
Still hurrah :-)
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Better yet - why didn't someone get a pack of rabid dogs and unleash them outside Westminster?
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[only slightly /trolling]
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And bursting into the House of Commons like a prat certainly isn't a useful or valid means of protest. That just doesn't help either side.
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(I'm also far from keen on bringing the M25 to a grinding halt, which I understand also happened yesterday, with a 5mph procession of horseboxes. I'm *sure* that ought to be some sort of driving offence).
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A better comparison, actually, might be Critical Mass (the bike ride thing), which at least in the Mayday version, wound up delaying a fair amount of traffic. On the other hand, that was partly cos the police insisted on just stopping everything else (like with a protest march) - I believe that wasn't the plan. I don't know how the monthly rides work (whether it's deliberately-slow-down-traffic or just lots of bikes going along at a normal pace & asserting their right to use the roads). OTOH, Critical Mass is *about* cyclists' right to use roads without being shoved off them, so asserting that right *on* the roads makes more sense.
It's also bloody dangerous to do that sort of thing on the motorway - much more so than in cities where everything's moving more slowly anyway.
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(yes, as I understand it the debate finishes with the vote)
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Way to cause harm to your own cause, chaps!
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[just walked from St James's back to Millbank]
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I'm sure that will make you happy....
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