Tory MP's filibuster blocks bill to give carers free hospital parking | Society | The Guardian
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Something tells me that photo's doing the rounds. What a scrote.

The words I would want to use to describe the three ostensibly honourable members of parliament, I would not use on a pubic forum.

The point he was making is a valid one but could have been made in about 5 minutes. What a [LIFTED]

That is the purpose of a filibuster - talk for long enough to prevent the issue from having time to come up for a vote.

I know that's the point of a Fillibuster. <snip>

Edited to remove rant on wrong topic

Err.... I think you might have the issue on which he sabotaged the motion wrong?

I consider filibustering to be anti-democratic. It is, essentially, preventing representatives of the people from making a firm decision on an issue, one that their constituents may feel very strongly about. If you don't like a proposal, vote against it and convince other members to vote against it if you can. if your arguments are strong, the measure will not be passed. This just suggests he had no actual argument against it worth a damn, so his only tactic was to stop the vote happening at all.

Also, I strongly suspect the photo at the top of the story is going to come back to haunt him at the next election.

Doh! To much news not enough brain.