A classic case of Parliamentary Gerrymandering?

Uproar in Parliament! It is hard not to see this as other than Parliamentary jerrymandering, the object being to ensuring the Labour amendment was adopted in preference to the SNP one.

Why? Because if it had been, there was a chance it would be adopted and thus put Parliament in direct conflict with the Government's pulsillanimous position on Israel and its indefensible military actions.

The bottom line amazingly and shamefully is that the British Parliament refuses to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

I am not in favour of the SNP desire to sever the union between England and Scotland but time and again it alone represents an unassailable moral stand on foreign policy issues, as it did on this one, so I am pleased it is there.

I am also sorry Speaker Hoyle was not man enough to stand up to the pressure that was obviously put on him to facilitate a taudry device to rescue the government from a dilemma of its own making.

It is indeed difficult to see, as was suggested by the leader of the SNP in the Commons, that this partisan decision by the Speaker, has not fatally undermined his role and position. (TTV)

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CueZpFOrvk PoliticsJOE

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"Best bits: Last night's insane parliamentary meltdown over Speaker's Gaza vote fiasco

"The House erupted last night after the Speaker's decision to take action completely unprecedented in recent history. In the SNP's opposition day debate calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, he granted Labour an amendment to the vote which was to be taken ahead of the SNP's motion. "Labour's amendment changed the wording of the SNP's motion to remove references to the collective punishment of Palestinians by the IDF, for a ceasefire to be contingent on the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas and for Hamas to give over power in Gaza. "Labour have 17 opposition day debates in the course of a parliamentary session, while other opposition parties have three between them. The SNP saw Labour's granting of an amendment and first vote as a hijacking of their debate."

Jeremy Corbyn

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Feb 21

30,000 killed. 1.8 million displaced. Thousands of children starving slowly to death. That is the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. This is not the time for equivocation. This is the time for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

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