Lord Greaves has claimed that the existing laws on treating are being flouted by all parties in the run up to the election. He may be right or wrong; all I know is that I don’t seem to ever get offered any.
Tag: elections
Brian Souter’s party abstained on sexual orientation discrimination regs
Interesting to see that, of the 6 SNP MPs, 1 voted for the sexual orientation discrimination regulations, 1 voted against, and 4 sat on their hands. This, just days after receiving half a million pounds from Scotland’s homophobe-in-chief, Brian Souter. Did they abstain to avoid provoking their new cash cow? What implications does this have… Continue reading Brian Souter’s party abstained on sexual orientation discrimination regs
Internal party democracy – Tory style
If you can ignore the fact that the Conservative policy is for the House of Lords to be elected using the first past the post system, which is itself a closed list system, you could be forgiven for thinking they had quite a principled take in the Lords reform debate a few weeks ago. To… Continue reading Internal party democracy – Tory style