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Bill: Speaker of the House Partisan Act of 2891
Details
Submitted by[?]: House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2891
Description[?]:
| Article Four of the Speaker of the House Act of 2886 ( http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=277891 ) is hereby declared null and void. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:06:30, February 08, 2010 CET | From |  House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House Partisan Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, considering the highly partisan method of election of the Speaker of the House and the partisan function that the office plays, it makes no sense to have the Speaker of the House be a non-partisan office. |
| Date | 08:50:25, February 09, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House Partisan Act of 2891 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, it makes perfect sense. If the Speaker is to represent all MPs, and all MPs are to feel able to approach the Speaker with worries or problems, then the Speaker must be non-partisan. If the public are to feel confident that all MPs are getting their rightful say in parliamentary proceedings, and ministers are being held to account without any sort of bias or prejudice, then the position must be non-partisan. Mr Speaker, one can hardly say that the method of election is "highly partisan". MPs are not allowed to vote for their own candidate, ensuring that this is not a partisan method of election. This is not a partisan method and the function of the office is definitely not partisan - it is meant to be the complete opposite, representing all MPs and the official representative of the rights of the legislature. [OOC: The Speaker of the United Kingdom House of Commons is officially non-partisan though of course he originated in a political party - the system works very well.] |
| Date | 16:24:20, February 09, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House Partisan Act of 2891 |
| Message | [OOC: that's great for the UK, which is rich, not very crowded, and has three major parties that all basically agree with each other on everything] |
| Date | 22:02:46, February 09, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House Partisan Act of 2891 |
| Message | [OOC: I don't think wealth really has anything to do with it, nor does population. As for the parties agreeing, they do now, but in the 80s they certainly didn't, and the impartial Speaker ensured that Parliament still had a vital role to play, and all MPs could be heard.] |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 173 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 156 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
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| Random quote: "I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." - Benjamin Disraeli |