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Bill: School Leavers' Age Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
Status[?]: defeated
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: November 2945
Description[?]:
| This Act will lower the school leavers' age back to 16, with further education being voluntary and optional. Education up until the age of 18, provided by the public sector, shall remain free of charge. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:48:03, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the School Leavers' Age Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, given the enormous burden that the nation is currently under in terms of state spending and taxation, we thought that the socialist parties would welcome a lowering of the school leaving age in order to allow people to enter into jobs quicker. |
| Date | 13:51:00, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the School Leavers' Age Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, personally we prefer to see people stay on in school to work towards higher quality jobs. Given the extremely high employment rates in Hutori there is a need for highly paid and highly skilled jobs and not mundane labour employment. |
| Date | 15:04:17, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the School Leavers' Age Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, is it possible that the socialists, who purport to represent the working man, have just alienated their entire grassroots support? Labourers will certainly not see themselves as mundane. As each day goes by, the people will come to realise that socialism is simply about serving the elites and not the people who really matter. |
| Date | 21:59:29, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the School Leavers' Age Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, I wish to retort to the honorable lady, that to allow children to leave school at 16 would simply lead them into dead end occupations with no future prospects. Is this not infact simply creating a workforce to serve the elites that the honorable lady suggests we are serving? This Act in its essence is for the service of the elites because it creates cheap labour! Let the honorable lady not become dishonorable by spinning! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 115 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 276 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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