Yesterday the government won the 42 day vote by 9 votes. NINE! 315 - 306. After the Commons vote Baronness Kennedy said that it was "all about deals behind the scenes" and that "democracy had been twisted to get the result". Not that I tend to ever agree with the Tories, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said that there had been a "whole series of shenanigans going on" and that the result had "no authority" and "no legitimacy". Amnesty International's Mike Blakemore said that it was a "dangerous and disappointing decision".
BBC's James Landale was outside Parliament reporting on the vote and said that the government had only won with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party, and that Gordon's "won himself a breather". Amusingly, during James' reports, a chap was stood behind him with a sign which read STOP WORLD WAR 3 OVER IRAQ - NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST on one side, and 7 MILLION IRAQIS KILLED, INJURED, HOMELESS SINCE 2001 on the other. I wonder if he'd had permission to protest. I doubt it. Good for him.
2 comments:
They always do deals!!!
The Lords should throw it out though.
Wish I'd seen that protester.
having wrongly been held on "suspicision of terrorism", I can tell you that 42 days or years might be fine for "real terrrorists", but when the police trump up charges, they could do a lot of damage to an innocent person's life/career in six weeks!
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