Commons chaos: These partisan halfwits have shamed us all iandunt.substack.com/p/commons-ch...
It is good, but you go incredibly easy on Starmer and the PLP leadership who came up with a word-salad of an amendment which said nothing just to try and stop their own MPs voting to oppose genocide. Nobody emerges with credit here, yet you make excuses for Starmer.
Your analysis is obviously biased towards Starmer and Labour. It forgives their playing of political games - strong-arming Hoyle - and condemns the SNP for doing its job. Starmer is compromised by a strong pro-Israel lobby. That, as much as anything, has been covered up.
Nothing even approaching a swear word - you must be really, really angry!
of course the Westminster press love this and leading the news when it is totally and utterly irrelevant
as usual Ian you nail it and in these times the public want grown up leadership and not stupid games on something the house and govt have no say on. What on earth were the tories thinking about waking out, SNP can play their silly games but for the tories it makes them look pathetic ..
Very much with you, though a slightly better ruling by the Speaker would have been to allow a multiple choice vote on all four motions. Hoyle "broke with convention" by sticking with as much convention as he could.Very much with you, though a slightly better ruling by the Speaker would have been to allow a multiple choice vote on all four motions. Hoyle "broke with convention" by sticking with as much convention as he could.
Superb piece! At the same time, arms licenses to any of the warring parties must be revoked otherwise calls for a ceasefire are seriously undermined.
At the risk of sounding sycophantic this is a wonderfully written piece. It’s helped me to organise my own thoughts on the issue.