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Bill: Localised Gambling 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: June 2954
Description[?]:
| This Act will devolve powers over gambling to local government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Current: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:18:09, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, Hutori needs strong central governance and the CLP continue to try and weaken the position of the state within the nation. This is a matter of having a single nationwide policy on the issue. |
| Date | 16:29:16, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, why should there be a single nationwide policy on the issue? Surely local people know what is best for their area? |
| Date | 16:32:15, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the NSC doesnt believe there should just be a national policy on gambling. We believe there should be a national policy on everything. |
| Date | 16:41:31, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Why? |
| Date | 16:43:37, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Strong Central Government Madam Speaker, thats why! |
| Date | 16:52:24, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | But why does the gentleman desire strong central government Madam Speaker, or is power simply an end in itself? |
| Date | 16:53:38, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, its one of the parties beliefs. Thats why! The NSC want all people to be equal so an equal law across the nation is needed. |
| Date | 17:01:22, June 14, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, he doesn't know! He wants it simply because the party wants it! He hasn't sat down and thought about it - he just does as his party tells him! Even we on these benches would be able to do a better job of representing his party's position than he can! |
| Date | 12:38:45, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Baroness Marelle, Prime Minister Madam Speaker, typical CLP wanting to answer everyones questions. We give them an answer and they wont accept it. Why do we bother then? The CLP say they want us to answer their questions - we do, and then the CLP complain how the answer isnt good enough? Madam Speaker, are some people never happy? |
| Date | 13:41:01, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, if the Prime Minister thinks that "its one of the parties beliefs" is an answer to why the party believes in centralisation, then she is even further removed from reality than many of us suspected. Madam Speaker, we ask the most simple of questions. We give their party a platform from which they can expand on their beliefs. They don't, and we simply wonder whether that is because they can't? |
| Date | 13:49:24, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Duke McCullum MP, NSC Frontbencher, Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister doesnt really want to concern herself with Parliament - she has larger issues to deal with like how Hutori will be governed. I have been asked as a former Prime Minister , to deal with the CLP at the honorable ladies pleasure. Madam Speaker, the NSC stands for a strong central government because this is the best way to govern a nation. The CLP have said that there are local councils with parties who are not even members of this House! That shows local councils are inexperienced, below the standard of politician in this House and are not sufficiently able to govern over their own area. The NSC won 4 out of 5 regions in the last general election - so that sounds to me as if the people of Hutori want to be governed by a strong NSC led central government! If people wanted a CLP federalist system, then we shall see what happens at the next election! |
| Date | 14:51:09, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the opening statement by the gentleman speaks volumes. The NSC do not care for Parliament at all. Given that Parliament contains the representatives of the people, it also shows that they do not wish to concern themselves with the people of this country either. Madam Speaker, the NSC claim that their election victory has given them a mandate to do absolutely anything they want. It has not, and they shall soon learn that. |
| Date | 14:59:37, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the CLPs bitterness far succeeds our own imagination. Their electoral results do not depend on their own party - but who they ally themselves with! If there was no UM the CLP would have been long ago been thrown out of Hutorian politics. The CLP are able to dominate the UM and we hope that other parties within the movement realise that the CLP are just a bitter party desperatley clinging to what little support it can associate itself with! Madam Speaker, the people have given the NSC/UFD the right to do whatever we want because thats the nature of majority rule. If Labour/CLP got a majority - the same would apply to them, but Madam Speaker, we hope Labour realise that they are far better off without this CLP leech draining their support. |
| Date | 15:26:43, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, all parties within the UM are equal. The NSC should understand this. They simply demonstrate their own recognition that the UFD is a far more powerful partner than them. Madam Speaker, with power comes responsibility. The people who voted for the NSC did not give them permission to act as they wish. Furthermore, some of their actions they did not even expect, so they cannot claim that. The government is contemplating slavery, murdering the elderly and other acts. When did the people vote for those issues Madam Speaker? Madam Speaker, beyond the will of the people are important principles of universal human rights and liberties that no government should infringe upon. The NSC can accuse us of bitterness if they wish. It is not bitterness. It is extreme distaste and disgust at the way that this government is behaving. |
| Date | 22:16:13, June 15, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Localised Gambling Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the NSC and UFD are equal partners in this government. Each one is dependant on the other to make this coalition work. There is a mutual respect between the two parties, unlike in the UM. The people who voted NSC are getting NSC policies. The NSC sees its policies are put through Parliament and if we need support then we are prepared to put through a UFD policy if it sees NSC policy passed. That way the NSC policies are enacted into Hutori. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 30 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 361 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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