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Bill: Railway Nationalisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialist Party
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: February 3427
Description[?]:
| Dranland deserves a first-class publicly-owned railway on which every Dranish citizen may travel as a first-class citizen. Second-class seats are to be abolished. Cadfael Maddocks MP (Prime Minister of Dranland) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:05:22, January 13, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Railway Nationalisation Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, why not three-storey luxury houses for everyone? Why not private jets and luxury holidays on demand, paid for by the state? Every citizen must have the right to eat truffles three times a day and should be granted three bottles of high-class champagne per month by the government! If this sounded ridiculous to the Hon. Members, then they are right with their judgment. The same principle, however, has just been proclaimed by the Prime Minister. Craig Warwick MP Member for Elbian GNP Chairman |
| Date | 21:22:53, January 13, 2013 CET | From | Civic Democratic Party | To | Debating the Railway Nationalisation Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, We support the fostering of a better Dranland. We do not believe that nationalizing private, and successful, companies will achieve this goal. At the moment there is no wide-scale exploitation of the people. There is no price fixing, nor any scandals involving the rail industry. We must wonder why this is necessary. I yield. David Vegros Montavez Member for Magadonia Chairman of Encrucijada Democrática |
| Date | 00:42:05, January 14, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Railway Nationalisation Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, I am not the one who supports taking wealth created by others and showering it on three-storey luxury houses, private jets, luxury holidays, truffles and champagne for people who did not earn it. The one who supports doing this, Madam Speaker, is the Honourable Member Craig Warwick, who wants to maintain a grossly unjust socio-economic system which keeps undeserved wealth, privileges and power in the hands of the bourgeois elite. Madam Speaker, I would like to remind the Honourable Member David Vegros Montavez that some years ago there was a horrific train crash in Dranland which killed nearly 200 years ago. This tragedy occured at a time when our rail system was in private hands, and I for one do no believe it would have occured had profit not been prioritised over passenger safety. Cadfael Maddocks MP (Prime Minister of Dranland) OOC: Read about the train crash here - http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1930&p=47469&hilit=train+crash#p47469 |
| Date | 00:47:31, January 14, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Railway Nationalisation Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the Rt. Hon- Gentleman's reference to an accident that happened decades ago is pathetic. Do we also disarm all citizens because a single individual happened to use a gun for criminal goals? Wait... the DSP actually did, my apologies for this bad example. What I was meaning to say is that we can't hand all services over to the state because the left-wingers believe that the people are too stupid for voluntary association and exchange. However, they seem to believe that legislators and government bureaucrats are enlightened, inherently flawless wise men who are both omnipotent and omniscient. What a crude world view, Madam Speaker! Craig Warwick MP Member for Elbian GNP Chairman |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 88 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 207 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 56 |
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