Liz Truss' Bill to amend the EA - 19th April

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https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3560/news

Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill 2nd reading

When will we know what slot she's got?

I'm not sure, I can't find any more info.

Hopefully this will get more of an airing than last time, thanks to those dim MPs wanging on about their pet ferrets.

She's second from last on this (long) list.

https://whatson.parliament.uk/commons/2024-04-19/

I see pets are still getting a higher billing than women and children

I'm an animal lover but FFS

Ah thanks. Probably no chance, then. Labour MPs will want to list all the pets they've ever had, again.

Actually to be fair there may have been Tory MPs listing pets, too, I can't remember.

I think there were Tory MPs doing it too too although, if I remember correctly, (and admittedly my source was Twixer) Labour MPs spoke for a lot longer.

But my conclusion is that neither party wants this bill to succeed, albeit for different reasons. When it comes to Westminster, vipers, we're on our own.

Fgs.

Ok, if the Tories are going to be absolute shit on this issue as well, there's little point bothering to vote.

Is it the Speaker who sets the schedule? Iirc Bercow was in the pocket of TRAs, inviting them up to Speakers House for soirées and decided not to table GC private members bills. Is Lindsay Hoyle more of the same?

You would have thought that as it is one of the Private Members Bill that never got an airing on its alloted day, that on giving it a second go it should be one of the first to be discussed.

These tactics of talking things out of time, might have been amusing in the Edwardian era, who the upper classes loved a good "jape", but surely by now Parliament should have grown up, and allowed a bit of wider democracy (ie individual MPs not just Government) to have proper procedures to present issues to be voted on.

At least some mechanism that would mean anyone who talks off topic is not only told to STFU by loses the right to contribute to the debate again.

Honestly. The whole set up is crack pot.

At bit off topic but a London Tory MP had a private member's bill that was basically to say that the ULEZ scheme in London was illegally set up, or discriminatory or something. Needless to say a lot of Labour MPs turned up and talked it out as it was a direct attack on Sadiq Khan. And apparently had the backing of Downing Steet. So why didn't they just introduce a bill themselves?

Ditto Liz Truss' bill. Its an ammendment to existing bills.

All these silly games and real life issues.

I don't understand why this isn't just a Bill. There's hardly anything else going through Parliament as it is. There's room in the diary.

I'm leaning towards the reason given by PPs on another thread, which is that they fear it will split the Conservative Party. As we saw with Theresa May, the survival of the Conservative and Unionist Party would appear to be more important than anything, anything at all.