This Could be Interesting

December 1, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, Political 11

Labour to abstain from today’s vote.

MPs will vote later on the government’s proposals for stricter tiers across England after a debate in the Commons.

More than 55 million people will enter the two toughest tiers from 00:01 GMT on Wednesday if the plans are approved.

A number of Conservative MPs have criticised the Covid-19 restrictions, saying the “wheels are coming off the government’s arguments” to impose them.

But with both Labour and the SNP abstaining from the vote, the measures are expected to pass.

I guess it depends on how many Tory MPs do the right thing.

Edited to add: My MP will be voting with the government. He has just ensured that I will never vote for his party again so long as I live.

11 Comments

  1. Labour as ever, gutless cowards.
    Kier Starmer gutless coward in chief.
    Maybe he can kneel down in the chamber whilst not voting.
    The Tory wets who vote in favour in order to prolong their “careers” are just as cowardly.
    What a shower the lot of them are.
    We need rid of them all

  4. I’m more interested in why they’re sitting on the fence instead of coming down on one side or the other…

    Plausible deniability is my guess. “We didn’t vote for it” or “We didn’t stop it” depending on what hindsight indicates which way they should have voted, had they voted.

  5. Same happened here in Germany when parliament on Nov 18 just waved through the further suspending of fundamental rights (“Infektionsschutzgesetz”) – most people here seem not even to realize how bloody dangerous this is. Media didn’t report on it except in the usual sense of “covidiots demonstrating and endangering us all”.

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