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penllawen:
Your democracy at work, Britain.
This is a live shot of the UK House of Commons debating the extremely controversial Digital Economy Bill (wikipedia, BBC, Telegraph, there are many more). The incumbent Labour government is trying to push this complex Bill into law today with minimal discussion as one of the last acts of its Parliament, before an election it is expected to lose next month.
The UK has 646 MPs. I count around 30 in that picture.

It just got worse…


  1. flufflogic reblogged this from grimdotdotdot and added:
    All credit to penllawen: The above is a shot of the House of Commons, at around 1:30pm today. What’s significant about...
  2. seej500 reblogged this from grimdotdotdot and added:
    Oh great. Glad to see so many of our elected representatives give a shit about the processes of law and democracy.
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  4. stepdown reblogged this from grimdotdotdot and added:
    Not many people joining in the DEBill debate… //twitter.com/#search?q=%23DEBill
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