Order of the brown nose to be sent in a plain brown envelope to Paul Walter, 9 Acacia Avenue......
Well done to Nick Clegg for bringing back the members of the shadow cabinet who voted for the referendum on the EU Treaty. This is an excellent act of leadership....letting bygones be bygones. All the MPs involved are excellent liberals and I am glad they are back in the shadow cabinet.
At the risk of getting oodles of comments from Rusty, I saw the EU Lisbon Treaty/referendum furore as (in the words of French and Saunders) "a lot of stuff and nonsense".
But, I will don flak jacket and tin hat as I know many people felt strongly about it. I just thought it was one of those things and that Clegg acted quite rightly and very strongly during the whole episode.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Well done, Nick Clegg!
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I'd always expect the Lib Dems to have a higher proportion of mavericks than the other two main parties!
Do you think the three line whip is good democracy?
As a LibDem who was in favour of the whipped abstention (it's late, I'll explain it again some other time) I think our MPs acted honourably in resigning.
I also think that the commons vote on Lisbon was deliberately divisive seen from our perspective and damage was unavoidable considering the adjusted platform of the new leadership.
The way this has been handled has minimised any internal ructions and I too am heartily glad of the rebels return.
Rusters. It depends which party you are talking about. In the LibDems, as with this vote, those back benchers who voted for had absolutely no sanctions put on them. That was about a dozen MPs. There needs to be some common agreement for shadow cabinet members and we can see that the sanctions against those 3 or 4 were very mild - exclusion from the front bench for 6 months.
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