If this is how Tory MPs regard #socialdistancing they can’t expect us to do as they say
#ToryLawBreakers yet again: this time Tory MPs ignored social distancing to push to the front of the queue to vote – on a Bill that would break international law if passed.
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised: as MPs voted to break international law, they also broke their own rules on social distancing.
How can they expect us to obey those laws – including the new “rule of six”, when they set such a bad example?
Here’s what happened, via the Enfield Independent:
Pass readers in the division lobbies used by MPs to record their votes stopped working.
They instead had to queue up, walk through the chamber and pause at the despatch box to announce their name and vote.
The problems emerged during a vote on the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, with MPs asked to approve clause 46 – which is at the centre of a devolution row.
SNP health spokeswoman Dr Philippa Whitford [stated that] there was a “total failure” of social distancing in Parliament for the vote.
In a tweet, she said: “Now pass-readers aren’t working in either voting lobby so we see the Rees-Mogg conga in all its glory – with obvious crowding in members lobby & total failure of social distancing! Interesting that wearing of #Facecoverings limited to Welsh, NI & Scots MPs.”
Labour former minister Ben Bradshaw added: “More chaos in the Commons voting lobbies tonight as the card reading machines that replaced the previous perfectly good electronic voting system break down again & arrogant Tory MPs push to the front of the long queue completely ignoring social distancing rules.”
Were there no police on the Parliament estate, to arrest these lawbreakers?
If not, why not? There’s supposed to be a police presence there, just to protect our democratically-elected representatives from lunatics and terrorists.
There is a clear precedent here, though:
As Conservative MPs clearly do not accept the need for social distancing – or masks – in circumstances decided by their own whim, we don’t have to either.
Clearly everybody in the real world that isn’t Westminster Never-Neverland needs to use their judgement, but if we get challenged on apparent law-breaking we can simply invoke the Clause 46 precedent.
You never know – it might become as popular as the Cummings excuse that came before it.
Source: Total failure of social distancing during House of Commons vote, claims MP | Enfield Independent
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