Sentences with phrase «guillotine motions»

Unlike the government, individual MPs aren't able to pass guillotine motions which limit the amount of time each amendment gets debated for.

The whole House will know that guillotine motions are always undesirable, although increasingly common in recent decades, but to ram through legislation of this significance in a day must be wrong.

Whether it's on the length of the terms, the system of election, the place of bishops in the second chamber or a myriad of other issues, the opposition will be able to offer the carrot of its support for a guillotine motion instantly ending the agony - if it gets its way.

When they bring a programme motion or a guillotine motion in September, if they do, it will get defeated again.

In addition to the timetable motion the government has another lever which it can pull: the guillotine motion.

There have also been suggestions that the MPs might vote down a guillotine motion designed to timetable a debate on the Lords bill, leading to interminable debates, similar to those that occurred at the time of the Maastricht bill.

Not exact matches

Bernard Jenkin attacks Heath for previously complaining about programe motions, and then guillotining a constitutional motion now.