so,nad you would have to be bordering on the stupid to agree. Therefore it can only be a strategy the deal is so bad MPs vote,to remain on current terms or make the public vote again to remain as the EU has done one many occasions before....
While a number of MEPs are ex-MPs who have shifted to Europe after losing their seats, many an MEP has used the position as a stepping stone in the other direction. To achieve this calls for an element of fame, if not notoriety. Loudly pushing an agenda is a means to an end. As ...
We must make this Country ours, they thought, and went on to clinch the matter successfully so far uttering lot of falsehoods and stifling proper information about our history coming out. Many Tamils were scared to point out that the North and East were always Tamil speaking areas. Even if ...
In the United Kingdom, Parliament consists of the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Monarch. The House of Commons is composed of 650 members who are directly elected by British and Northern Irish citizens to represent single-member constituencies. The leader of a Party that wins ...
Parliament’s independence vis-à-vis the executive has long been qualified by strong partisan loyalties amongst almost all MPs, who (after all) have spent many years working within parties before getting into the Commons. The members of the governm...
In 2004, the Blair government was worried that its devolution changes in Scotland and Wales could be seen as a basis for reducing their number of MPs in the House of Commons, hurting its fortunes. In a bid to forestall that, a schema for implementing a very weak form of regional devolutio...
MPs have demonstrated that they are indeed uneducated on the very issues they are voting on to the point of willful ignorance – Kenneth Clarke boasting he hadn’t bothered to read the Maastricht Treaty before voting in the EU’s favour. Parliament is supposed to defend and represent our sover...
Although many MPs in New Zealand supported the NZPC during the campaign for the PRA, MP Brent Catchpole (NZ First) joined others who opposed the bill by calling into question the integrity of the NZPC in parliament saying that it was “the one organisation that is out there promoting ...
This post does not represent the views of the London School of Economics. Sean Kippin is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a former editor of Democratic Audit. Similar Posts How accountable are the UK’s security and intelligence services to ...
“a direct relationship with God”. The Church of Scotland, to this day, maintains a hotel on the shores of the Sea of Galilee and Gove says: “I remember the story of the Jewish people, as told to me, through Bible stories at Sunday school. It certainly gave you a predisposition to...