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« on: January 24, 2012, 04:40:36 PM »
« edited: February 04, 2012, 02:33:37 AM by Teddy (IDS Legislator) »

https://twitter.com/#!/search/stunnell


Liberal Democrat minister, Andrew Stunnell, has walked into the wrong voting lobby and refuses to come out.
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 04:46:21 PM »

OK, so he's being a clown.
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 04:46:49 PM »

Oh great. That's my MP by the way guys. Hazel Grove. Wonderful.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 04:53:51 PM »

http://inagist.com/TomBlenkinsop/161919948472586241/
http://inagist.com/KevinBrennanMP/161922003861905408/
http://inagist.com/TomBlenkinsop/161921597148631041/
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 04:58:41 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_9434000/9434799.stm I think I see him on the Treasury bench, but I can't be certain.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2012, 05:01:09 PM »

Speaker has ordered the lobby cleared, so this ends soon one way or another.
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 05:13:56 PM »

What does this mean?
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 06:35:01 PM »

Resignation under collective responsibility?
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2012, 06:36:16 PM »

wtflol?
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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2012, 06:48:23 PM »

It looks like the Seargent at Arms had to be called to make him leave the lobby and vote?
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2012, 11:09:47 PM »

I think so. The Labour MP's did not really focus on how it ended, so I guess somehow he won, otherwise they would have been all over it.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2012, 12:35:07 PM »

Nick Clegg on socialists and tax:

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(Via the Guardian's live blog.)

Nothing like a good caricature, eh?
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2012, 01:20:58 PM »
« Edited: January 26, 2012, 01:23:13 PM by Teddy (IDS Legislator) »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16746389

"A minister inadvertently found himself in the wrong lobby in a Commons vote after a mix-up with a glass of water."

"In the House of Commons, MPs vote by walking through one of two lobbies - one if they are voting yes, and the other if they are voting no. "

"Lobby doors are closed eight minutes after a vote is called and the only way for an MP to get out is to walk past the tellers -" ... "- thereby registering a vote."

"Could you confirm that when he was locked in the wrong lobby, the minister bravely took refuge in the toilet - as the Conservative minister barked orders at him through the doorway?"
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2012, 05:43:15 PM »

Nick Clegg on socialists and tax:

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Nothing like a good caricature, eh?

What a moron. Wish he'd just join the Tories and get it over with.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2012, 05:55:20 PM »

And that's why the Nick Clegg is irrelevent.
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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2012, 06:24:14 PM »

I wish that Clegg and Cameron would create a new Liberal-Conservative party, and the super-right-wing-crazies would leave the Tories, and the clearly-socialist-left-wingers would leave the LibDems, and thus create a new right of centre party.
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2012, 08:18:48 PM »

The late (and much missed) David Taylor used to vote in both lobbies when the government proposed something he disagreed with; meant that he could register a protest and also not really vote with the other lot.
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2012, 09:10:02 AM »

The late (and much missed) David Taylor used to vote in both lobbies when the government proposed something he disagreed with; meant that he could register a protest and also not really vote with the other lot.

How could he do that if the doors get locked before counting?
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2012, 09:27:15 AM »

The late (and much missed) David Taylor used to vote in both lobbies when the government proposed something he disagreed with; meant that he could register a protest and also not really vote with the other lot.

How could he do that if the doors get locked before counting?

Apparently he was quick.
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2012, 07:06:41 AM »

Chris Huhne has resigned from the Cabinet after he and his ex-wife were charged with perverting the course of justice.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/feb/03/chris-huhne-speeding-penalty-energy-secretary-live-updates

Interesting to speculate what might have happened if he'd been elected Lib Dem leader.
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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2012, 07:31:36 AM »

Chris 'The Fringe' Vroom was always going to be charged for this, so I don't quite get why he waited before resigning.
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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2012, 08:13:16 AM »

BTW, what's with the Falkland enthusiasm in the UK media? Any specific reason the temperature over those barren cliffs a hemisphere away is rising again? (Well, outside of the presence of a prince of the realm.)
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« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2012, 08:38:13 AM »

BTW, what's with the Falkland enthusiasm in the UK media? Any specific reason the temperature over those barren cliffs a hemisphere away is rising again? (Well, outside of the presence of a prince of the realm.)

Oil in the general area, so rhetoric from Argentina is stronger than it has been for ages, and so on.
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« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2012, 09:48:12 AM »

I wish that Clegg and Cameron would create a new Liberal-Conservative party, and the super-right-wing-crazies would leave the Tories, and the clearly-socialist-left-wingers would leave the LibDems, and thus create a new right of centre party.

What socialist left wingers?
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« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2012, 11:22:05 AM »

I wish that Clegg and Cameron would create a new Liberal-Conservative party, and the super-right-wing-crazies would leave the Tories, and the clearly-socialist-left-wingers would leave the LibDems, and thus create a new right of centre party.

What socialist left wingers?

And David Cameron is fairly moderate compared to his party? What is this, 2007?
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