On procedure and politics

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Keyword post: Some answers to search results

This post will provide answers to actual search engine queries that led people to this blog. None of these would really make a full blog post on their own, which is why I’ve decided to answer a few in one post. 1. How many people did/didn’t vote for David Cameron? This one is very easy [...]

Fixed-term Parliaments – Addendum

A comment on my earlier post suggesting that the reason why the Lords defeated the Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill was because fixed-term parliaments was not a promise made by either the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives in their 2010 manifestos. This, however, is incorrect. Both parties promised fixed-term parliaments. The Lib Dems did not indicate how [...]

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill – update

(Note: this post was written back in May 2011. The Fixed-term Parliaments Bill received Royal Assent on 15 September 2011. When looking for the status of a bill before Parliament please always consult the Bills before Parliament page of the UK Parliament website for the most up-to-date information about any bill.) The Coalition government’s Fixed-Term [...]

More UK Committee links

I am continuing to follow the hearings of both the House of Lords’ Constitution Committee and the House of Commons’ Political and Constitutional Reform Committee. The HOL Committee is currently studying the matter of fixed term parliaments, as they consider the Fixed Term Parliaments bill, while the HOC Committee is conducting a more general investigation [...]

Fixed-term parliaments

I am rather busy these days and so don’t have the luxury of time to work on an original post, so please forgive me for spamming you with videos! This is a meeting of the House of Lords Constitution Committee examining the issue of fixed-term parliaments. Of special interest (maybe) for Canadians is that one [...]

Revisiting the Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill

Last month, Dr Malcolm Jack, Clerk of the House of Commons, gave evidence before the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee as part of their consideration of the Government’s Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill. Dr. Jack raised concerns that the bill as written might risk bringing the internal proceedings of the House into the ambit [...]

Rethinking fixed-term parliaments

I have discussed the issue of fixed-term parliaments previously (see this post and this post), mostly in the context of the legislation under consideration in the UK, however, it is an issue I’d written about on a previous blog (now defunct), when various Canadian provinces and the Canadian federal government were considering adopting fixed-term parliaments. [...]

Fixed-term parliaments: the bill

As the current session of the UK parliament draws to an end (they adjourn on 27 July 2010), the Coalition government finally tabled its two political reform bills: the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill and the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.  I will focus on the former; at 158 pages, I’ve not yet managed to read [...]

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