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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
I watched it on the Parliament Channel. He presented his 10 Minute bill straight after 'Questions to the Attorney General’ at 1pm. The cameras caught a few other Labour back benchers shuffling in to 'bunch' alongside him, so as to make the chamber look busy. That only succeeded in making him look pretty silly. Reading from a prepared script (no surprise, as there was some detailed numerical stuff), he started off nervous and made a few errors but after that he was OK. So 7/10 for presentation.
When it came to the vote on the Bill, with about 50 in the chamber, there were no 'No's, so it goes on to the next stage when it pops up again in the house on the 20/January.
I can't forgive him for his referendum about face, but at least he might do something useful now amongst the dying embers of democracy.
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No one shuffled near me. There was some interest, slightly more the usual.
As a working class person who resides up Plantation Street I to find hard to swallow that you would kick ordinary struggling Accy families in the teeth when it is a fact that 95% of people don't give a toss about Europe but do care about jobs and the economy. As a WC person I'll say what I think, you are letting us down.
Cedar Stret/Hodder Street resident 23 years. Accy resident 45 years.