Show of strength by new Labour prime minister after work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said the government had to do ‘the sums’ before it could commit to abolishing the limit
The world view of a hardcore trans rights activist. The kind of person for whom society will never be progressive enough, no matter how far it progresses.
Any government of any party would consider it to be a major breakdown in party discipline for one or more of its MPs to vote against its own Kings Speech.
That’s why they’ve been suspended. If this amendment had been tagged on to a piece of legislation then this would have just been a regular rebellion, of the sort that happens all the time in Parliament. Rebelling on your own party’s Kings Speech is an altogether different matter.
can we get back the tories already? they were shit but at least we expected them to be shit
What kind of shit world view is that
The world view of a hardcore trans rights activist. The kind of person for whom society will never be progressive enough, no matter how far it progresses.
Please don’t be like that.
Any government of any party would consider it to be a major breakdown in party discipline for one or more of its MPs to vote against its own Kings Speech.
That’s why they’ve been suspended. If this amendment had been tagged on to a piece of legislation then this would have just been a regular rebellion, of the sort that happens all the time in Parliament. Rebelling on your own party’s Kings Speech is an altogether different matter.