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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Scottish Lords object to English Votes

I know I'm a bit late on this one but I've been busy.

There was a debate the other day in the House of Lords on a Lords bill to prevent non-English MP's voting on English-only legislation - the Tory policy of English Votes on English Legislation (EVoEL).

There was, of course, opposition to the bill and can you guess where most of it came from? Yep, that's right - Labour and Scottish Lords.

Despite the opposition, the bill was unopposed in going forward for a second reading. Don't get excited though, with Traitor Blair publicly stating his opposition to equality and democracy in England there is no chance of it ever getting through the Commons.

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