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Friday, 30 April 2010
Play with this wonderful gizmo which allows you to show the number of seats of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties in the UK, using the results of the latest 3 polls.
A 1% upward tick in votes for Labout and Liberals means a minority Labour government instead of a Tory minority. What is clear is that both Labour and Tory will need the support of the Liberals, and if the Liberal price for such support is electoral reform, we can expect the political contours of Britain to change dramatically within a year or two.
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Thursday, 29 April 2010
The Speaker ruled that the House of Commons has an absolute right to demand the production of all information in the possession of a government to be made available to the House. However, the Speaker then suggested that the parties in the House discuss some means to resolve the conflict:
In view of the grave circumstances of the current impasse, the Chair believes that the House ought to make one further effort to arrive at an interest-based solution to this thorny question... I will allow House Leaders, Ministers and party critics time to suggest some way of resolving the impasse for it seems to me we would fail the institution if no resolution can be found. However, if, in two weeks’ time, the matter is still not resolved, the Chair will return to make a statement on the motion that will be allowed in the circumstances.
Aaron Whelley of Macleans has a good summary of the most important parts of the Speaker's ruling.
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Labels: confidence vote, framing, Harper, Ignatieff, Liberal Party, Parliament
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