Parlimanentarily speaking

[andrewducker]

The Government just managed to get the Civil Partnership Bill through the House of Lords by threatening the Parliament Act. (note to non-UK people - the House of Lords is our unelected secodn chamber - now in the midst of being replaced by....something).

If, like me, you knew nothing about the parliament act then you will be remarkably enlightened by this page here - which explains exactly how the government of the time managed to get the House of Lords to pass a bill that gave them less power..

(link now fixed)

Comments

Re: Parliamentarily speaking

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I like the manner in which that was done by King George V. Very cool.

ha

[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

When I first saw the name of that bill, I was like -- nice! The Brits legalized gay marriage!