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Bill: Red Paper
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Alliance
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2938
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Current: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Proposed: All power stations are publicly owned.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by private companies but the prices they can charge are regulated.
Current: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Proposed: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Proposed: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:34:42, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Independence Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Help me understand why you want to ban private schools. |
| Date | 00:35:49, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | oppose. We shall not let parents nor students have the right to go to a private school. |
| Date | 00:37:15, May 14, 2010 CET | From | Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Studies done (OOC: In my country at least) have shown employers discriminate in favour of privately educated individuals. Even if you have the same or better talents and abilities employers said they would still chose an individual who was privately educated.These barriers to your freedom of opportunity are created by man made institutions.In a free society is it necessary that all people regardless of their social background have access to education as equally as possible. The system in which we live is based on the idea that people can rise as high as they want provided they work hard. However with the discrimination exhibited by employers and others is this true? If the rich can buy their children a (quotes) “better” education this creates an embedded class system with the rich being able to pass opportunity and success onto their children. So long as private schools continue to exist are we living in a feudal state? That's why we are pushing so hard for this policy |
| Date | 00:39:38, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Independence Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Hmmm. We can't support this bill in its present form. But certain provisions of it might be acceptable in a compromise form. |
| Date | 03:11:09, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | I urge the NSP to vote agasint this. Banning private schools is not an anwser. The current law in Article 3 helps the government bail the compaines out that provide vital goods or serivces. Article 2 current law in place is better, you are trying to expand the government. Don't do it. |
| Date | 04:25:20, May 14, 2010 CET | From | National Socialist Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | An expansion of government is not bad. An expansion of corporate greed, on the other hand, is. |
| Date | 04:34:55, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Nice job on doing dirty politics again. Putting to ban private schools into a bill with other things the parties support. |
| Date | 04:44:11, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Independence Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | A waft of smoke from the back room next door blew in the room when NIP Chairman Alexander Hamilton Montgomery stepped through the archway. A fat, smoldering cigar clenched in his toothy grin, Montgomery was heard to say "dirty politics is fun." |
| Date | 04:47:26, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Dirty politics leads to nothing be done, have you not looked at the U.S. and see what mess we are in because of the right and the left fighting so damn fucking much. |
| Date | 04:49:05, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Independence Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | We're the left. Don't fight us, and everything will be okay. |
| Date | 06:09:05, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Nice threat |
| Date | 15:32:56, May 14, 2010 CET | From | NCPA | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | by power of number at the moment you will lose, but i do defy you to find us a government that dont fight, because the US may be bad but in the UK its all about debating, look at how parliament is set out |
| Date | 20:54:17, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Independence Party (PCA) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Threat? YOU said that America's problem is because the left and the right "fight so damn fucking much." Okay, you think that's the problem, *don't fight us*, and there won't be a problem. No threat. |
| Date | 22:34:30, May 14, 2010 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Red Paper |
| Message | Didn't a fist fight just break out in Parliment? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 370 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 245 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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