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Owen Ashworth on stabilizing the UK economy.
"The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls a Ten-Minute Rule bill. Essentially, a member of parliament (MP) seeks permission to introduce a bill by making the case for it for only ten minutes and then another MP speaks against it for ten minutes. Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP who introduced the bill, was made the center of attention by making a parliamentary misstep at the end when he referenced his colleagues by name instead of the traditional address members must use."
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 11 Feb
Says everything you need to know about our broken political system, that people were more concerned with "parliamentary procedure" and "etiquette" instead of the actual idea being pitched.
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