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Originally Posted by Osem
I can't find anything about this on the BBC website which is odd because it was only a few days ago that they were telling us all about the abuse Dianne Abbott complained of...
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I mean the alternative is that Guido and Soubry aren't being entirely truthful.
Labour didn't filibuster the debate in the same way any other parliamentary business yesterday wasn't a filibuster. They had tabled an amendment on extending the days for Private Members Bills by 13 days to reflect the double session of parliament. The Government have cancelled next years Queen's Speech to have a longer session but hadn't extended the days to debate bills not brought forward by the government.
The amendment was on the day's order of business:
https://publications.parliament.uk/p...a/OP170717.pdf
It wasn't a filibusterer. It wasn't a surprise.
The debate was scheduled to be the last item of the day, if they were running long it was always going to be cancelled.
And the day got delayed because of urgent questions about the planned execution of 14 men and boys in Saudi Arabia and then the statement from Justine Greening about school funding.
So you might point at any one of the previous items and ask why that didn't count as the reason for the debate being stopped? Or you might ask why, if the debate was so important, it was shoved to the last item of the day when it's not uncommon these get bumped?But instead Guido, who surely knows full well how parliament works, blames it on an already scheduled amendment Labour had because it's a easy way to score points.
He is entitled to do that. But the BBC aren't going to follow him and nor it seems are most other news outlets.