Ho hum, he's come up with another cast-iron guarantee. There are recent precedents for this, as it happens, so to recap:
Number of Tory MPs elected on 6 May 2005: 198.
Number of MPs who voted for Bill Cash's Clause 17 "Disapplication of European Communites Act 1972" on 16 May 2005: 136 (see Division 239, virtually all of these were Tory MPs).
Number of MPs voting for a referendum on Lisbon Treaty on 5 March 2008: 248 (AFAIAA, that's virtually all the Tory MPs and some from Labour etc).
Number of MPs voting in favour of Bill Cash's Clause 9 "Supremacy of Parliament*" on 5 March 2008: 48 (see Division 120. These were virtually all the Tory MPs still present after the rest had been sent home).
* "Notwithstanding any provision of the European Communities Act 1972, nothing in this Act shall affect or be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting the supremacy of the United Kingdom Parliament."
Only An Extrovert
1 hour ago
3 comments:
Thanks for the numbers. Cameron's gone.
UKIP should exploit this... hard.
I seem to recall something about the front bench being whipped to abstein over Cash's amendment too.
I think there is need to amendment.
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