Northern Rock - Parliament Marginalised
I have just sat through the first few hours of the Northern Rock debate. It may seem a marginal issue, but PArliament is being treated with contempt - as per usual. The entire Bill will have been done and dusted by midnight - just 8 hours after it was first put before Parliament. It themn moves to the Lords, where the unelected representatives get twice as long! Why is the Government in such a hurry - after all they have been prepared to wait 5 months to avoid precisely this debacle. Surely they can wait a couple of weeks for Parliament to debate it. Or is this Thursday’s “topical debate” (and you can be sure it won’t be on Northern Rock!) too important to be passed over?
Votedave said on February 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pm:
Labour’s attitude is that they’re going ahead with the legislation anyway (with help from the LibDems), so there’s nothing to discuss.