Nilkheimer hat geschrieben:Jetzt aber: 313 zu 312. Hallelujah Yvette Cooper!
3rd Brexit filibuster in the Lords broken 227 to 111. Now on to the fourth. Because there is no timetabling of business in the Lords, this could go on for many hours!
Curtailment of debate in this House is a very serious matter ... I would just remind [peers[ what JS Mill wrote in On Liberty. He was the one who warned democracy against the tyranny of the majority. He thought that that was the greatest threat to democracy. There is a clear majority on the benches opposite that this bill should pass. This is a minority on this side of the house. And to silence the minority is against very much the principles of ... JS Mill. He would not have approved that at all ...
This is an abuse of majority power power and really this house should not be sanctioning this.
I have served in parliament for 45 years and there has never been an instance of constitutional vandalism on the scale that we are witnessing today, and at the present time more generally.
NEW: Commons sitting suspended as torrents of water pour out of chamber roof into press gallery seating below. Pick your apocalyptic Brexit metaphor now.
)Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown to @callummay:
“We’ve received something from the govt we’re looking at now”
Q: “What sort of thing?”
A: “A piece of paper”
"Ich habe es satt, die bürgerliche Fassade einer im Kern fremdenfeindlichen und extremistischen Partei zu sein." Markus Plenk, AfD-Fraktionsvorsitzender im Bayerischen Landtag.
