Hunting Bill

[juliet]

(information from 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 :-)

Comments

[juliet]

Nope - got that from arkady & don't know where she got it from. That would explain why I can't find anything about it online... Will update to say as much. Bother. I was feeling all bouncy!

(yes, as I understand it the debate finishes with the vote)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I've updated my post; I got the initial information from the BBC News website which mentioned it in the "Latest" section until 17:15 but didn't clarify that this was only the vote for pushing the Bill through in one day. So blame the BBC for not giving us the whole story properly!

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Aren't we doing all three readings in one day or something, for the first time since the war measures act 1940 or whatever?

[arkady.livejournal.com]

They had to vote first to actually do that. Seems that before Parliament can even debate on something it has to take a vote on what way to debate....

[juliet]

Fair enough - I know I've been misled by BBC headlines before!

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Shocker.