After serious thinking Martin Clark wrote : > Nigel Stanley wrote: >> 2009/12/1 bloovee <[email protected]>: >>> It's a very good showing - often it's only the mover of the adjournment >>> debate and the minister responding.... >> >> Steve is right. Adjournment debates are typically for one MP to raise >> a particular hobbyhorse directly with the minister. Sometimes they >> will rustle up supporters if the issue goes wider than their own >> constituency. Sometimes this will be done an an all-party basis. > > Mr Irranca-Davies commented on what a good turn-out it was: > "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stourbridge and the > numerous hon. Friends who have turned out to support her and the > waterways. This is typical of debates on waterways, which are always > well attended. These are truly the constant friends of the waterways." > > I thought he was being sarcastic, but it seems from what Steve and Nigel > say that this was not the case. > http://is.gd/5ayfl
As I said, it was ten to eleven when it finished. How many MPs are likely to be there at that time of night when the new expenses system means they have to catch the train home afterwards for maybe 100 mile journey -- Brian traveling on Harnser http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
