Not exact matches
Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices
in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define»
in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever
use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary
debate through so - called «supply motions.»
This argument was also
used by farm minister George Eustice to defend the government's cull policy
in the
debate in parliament on March 13th.
Parliament was asked to renew a power that is «routinely being
used in breach of fundamental rights» without the chance to
debate it fully, MPs have warned.
Among other things, the negative resolution procedure is a rarely
used one, through which a peer (or MP) intervenes during the forty days after a statutory instrument has been laid on the table
in parliament to force a
debate and (potentially) a vote.
EU law was turned into British law usually
using statutory instruments, little mechanisms which allow you to change the law without a
debate and legislation
in parliament.
Ironically, during a recent
debate in Parliament on dangerous dogs, I was struck that the same arguments
used in opposition to microchipping horses were now being deployed against the suggestion that dogs should also be chipped.
«Providing more live coverage of the key political
debates and discussions has meant that during 2015, a dramatic year
in politics, we've seen a surge
in people
using BBC
Parliament to follow proceedings.