Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Already done.

The second reading of the Trades Union Bill passed last night with a vote of 317 vote to 284, a majority of 33, following more than six hours of debate. I watched the vote last night on the Parliament channel. Labour looked a bit muffed when the result came in. Committee stage next.

or national strike

hungry the only leaders with common sense and balls well done 3 cheers for a great leader

Poland will not take forced migrants they do not want them

breaking news on bbc Germany giving 5b euros Italy 3b the rest nothing

france spain Poland have said they will not donate any money

it's the committee stage that i hope will modify some of the more silly clauses, notwithstanding that the gov't will have the most members therein
i think much good and hard work gets accomplished at this stage

Following second reading the House of Commons agreed a programme motion which schedules the public bill committee to conclude by Tuesday 27 October 2015, but could finish earlier.

I think the real stumbling block will be the HL.


Victim,

You posted, "Sorry if this is basic.".

Did you mean "biased"?

migrants will fight for benefits but cowards who will not fight for freedom and their country yes bloody cowards thank the brittish they did not run away from the Nazis

am i not correct in thinking that HL can also and often does suggest amendments?

62885 - ah yes; squadron 303 which was famed throughout the raf and scored the most kills - 126 in 42 days :-)

The Lords by convention do not vote down legislation that is in the Queen's speech. It was introduced after the 1945 when Labour had a majority in the Commons and almost no Lords. That would have meant no Labour legislation being passed. The Conservatives agreed to accept legislation that was in the Labour manifesto and Queen's speech.

why are the migrants not going to Bulgaria or Romania right in front of them .
answer is simple NO BENEFITS
WELL DONE HUNGRY

The Salisbury Convention (officially called the Salisbury Doctrine,[1] the Salisbury-Addison Convention or the Salisbury/Addison Convention) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom under which the House of Lords will not oppose the second or third reading of any government legislation promised in its election manifesto.[2]

Following a landslide Labour general election victory in 1945, there were only 16 Labour peers in the House of Lords, led by Lord Addison. Throughout the 20th century, the second chamber had an in-built Conservative majority. However, it was believed that because Clement Attlee's Labour government had a clear mandate to deliver the policies of nationalisation and welfare state measures, the House of Lords should not oppose such legislation at second reading.

Lord Addison and Lord Salisbury (then Lord Cranborne), the Conservative leader in the House of Lords from 1942 to 1957, both with memories of the troubles leading to the passing of the Parliament Act 1911, agreed that anything promised in a party's manifesto would eventually pass; anything else would be subject to full debate. In its modern form, the convention still permits the offering of reasoned amendments to a motion for second reading of a Government bill, provided such amendments are not wrecking amendments designed to destroy the bill.

hays - there's surely a difference from voting down and sending a bill back to HC with suggested amendments for reconsideration?

Of course. What will happen in practice is that the Commons will generally vote out the Lords amendments if they don't like them. The Lords is supposed to be a revising chamber. The revisions being suggested amendments.

I'm only 11 yrs old Fred ,

Gosh,

You are a big boy!

You may improve yet!

8-)

Anyway Fred as you seem to spend so much time and energy knocking the Cons , what did you do when Labour were in , you must have been over the moon when Blair decided to murder all those poor Iraqi's . Do these current problems pale into insignifigance compared to Blairs time .and do you sleep at night . A basic answer will do .