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- Basra
- Who Rules England?
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- Someone, Anyone, Teach Him Some Manners
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- Bought But Not Paid For
- The Clinton Rush on the Ultimate
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- The Aristocracy of Labour
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- Managing Local Democracy
- Another Day, Another Run
- Two for the Price of One.
- Are We Nearly There Yet?
- Freedom of Conscience
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- What Governance Is This?
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- Scotland may prefer not to be dragged into the Eu...
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
2 comments:
I understand that Labour Ministers "may" (aren't they officially our representatives, not employees of New Labour plc?) vote freely on certain specified clauses, but "must" accept the whip on the Bill as a whole.
I'm not sure how that could work, S.
If Brown and Hoon think a fig leaf will cover a Catholic conscience, they are wrong.
It is not easy, often, to conform to the requirements and discipline asked of a member of the Faith. The faithful must oppose these things with all their strengths and belief or they have not opposed at all. They cannot turn to their confessors and wave a fig leaf; they've been publicly told and, I am sure, privately advised on matters so fundamental as the nature of humanity and the abhorrence of creating human life without hope of salvation.
The Church will never give way on this, it strikes at everything, and for all of us. In this the Church demands acceptance of its discipline.
In this I agree with the Church but I can see that those who hold other beliefs, moralities, and ideas of what is acceptable in influence on governance might have many reasons for objecting.
You said that there should be determined campaigning against this Bill, and it is difficult to see why not.
People like Brown, without common sense, common propriety, or common morals, cannot grasp that the grubbily expedient is not the same thing as right action.
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