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 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Buspasspar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 14:48

You could not make this up :-

Climate Minister Graham Stuart flew back from the COP28 conference in Dubai to take part in a crunch Commons vote on the government`s Rwanda bill.

Mr Stuart is due to return to the Dubai summit after the vote - a round trip of 6,824 miles.

Chiara Liguori, Oxfam`s senior climate change policy advisor, said: "There can be no more tragic outcome for UK climate diplomacy than this - flying home from talks to avert a climate catastrophe at the most critical moment in an attempt to salvage a cruel and impractical policy."

Wonder who paid for that 1 vote ?

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Parboiled  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 15:27

Humza flew there and he wasn’t even invited, and then he swans about glad handing important people!

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: alwaysaPar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 15:32

Quote:

Parboiled, Wed 13 Dec 15:27

Humza flew there and he wasn’t even invited, and then he swans about glad handing important people!


Quite clearly the original post has nothing to do with Huzma being there 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Parboiled  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 15:42

I’m giving hapless Humza a dose of whitabootery. He does it all the time, his go to response for every failure …



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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Buspasspar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 15:52

Which leads me to another question :-

Should MP`s be made to vote ?

37 Tory`s .. 8 Labour and a total of 13 others abstained last night on the Rwanda bill

The 37 Tory`s .. Braverman .. Jenrick .. et al did not vote as they were against the bill .. but they did not have the courage to vote against it

As for the 8 Labour .. goodness knows

They are well paid to do the job .. so they should be made to cast a vote and we should be informed as to who voted for what .. just saying

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: wee eck  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 16:30

I think we are able to find out how individual MPs/MSPs voted, Bpp.

Parboiled, can you name a politician who doesn`t indulge in `whitabootery`? It was well in evidence at PMQs today but we know Westminster is exempt from criticism as far as you are concerned.

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: alwaysaPar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 16:30

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Parboiled, Wed 13 Dec 15:42

I’m giving hapless Humza a dose of whitabootery. He does it all the time, his go to response for every failure …



Very true as all politicians make a career of it.... 😊
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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Buspasspar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 19:49

"I think we are able to find out how individual MPs/MSPs voted, Bpp."

I thought that wee eck .. So perhaps explains why the misanthropes did not vote

I just find it strange that a paid MP can abstain on important life changing bills

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: jake89  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 20:10

Abstaining should only be allowed where certain criteria is met e.g. religious grounds, conflict of interest etc.
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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: red-star-par  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 21:24

Surely in this day and age, a technological solution can be introduced so that it isn`t necessary for someone to have to actually be there in person to vote.

If someone is oversees on Government business surely it`s a waste of their time, and our money, to have them travel there and back when they could just make a call to instruct the house how they want to vote
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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: Buspasspar  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 21:35

Post of the week ^^^ Spot on rsp

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 Re: 6,824 Round Trip
Topic Originator: McCaig`s Tower  
Date:   Wed 13 Dec 21:51

They have a pairing system - couldn`t this have been used?

I think an abstention is a legitimate form of voting - just as in a parliamentary or council election. Even if you tried to make it compulsory there would be legitimate reasons why a vote could not be cast and people would end up missing their trains or being ill or whatever.

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