UK Parliament votes in Snoopers Charter, now it goes to the House of Lords

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And the Labour Party wonders why it canā€™t win anything and has been annihilated by the SNP in Scotland.

Fucking pathetic ā€˜oppositionā€™.

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I wonder if my fat waste of space MP voted for this.

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Not sure if there were any Labour rebels. I thought the Nos were LibDems, SNP and Green.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-06-07/division/16060743001404/InvestigatoryPowersBill?outputType=Names

Edit:

Looks like two Labour rebels - Dennis Skinner, natch, and David Winnick. Plus one Tory, Daniel Kawczynski

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Mineā€™s Nick Brown. Heā€™s not one for rocking the boat. He did, indeed, vote yes. Fucker.

So did mine.

Iā€™m glad I didnā€™t vote for him.

Mine went with the majority decision as well but i didnā€™t vote for his predecessor at the last election anyway.

It might be worth sending a succinct, polite email* to a few lords - https://www.writetothem.com/lords - iā€™ve already written to 2 who have raised the topic of this bill in the past.

*I say email but i doubt a lot of them have email, itā€™ll be sent through traditional means so i suggest we make a start now.

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Unfortunately Tony Blairā€™s ā€œreformsā€ of the House of Lords means that itā€™s now full of appointed lifelords, who are probably more likely to vote according to party lines.

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A victory for #supportoursnoops

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Thanks for this - I was wondering if there is a list. Looks like my MP was one of the noes, for all the good it did.

Who read Orwell thinking it was a manual for enlightened democracy?!?

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