The House of Lords inflicted anther blow to the government last night, when Jeff Rooker's amendment requiring a minimum 40% turn-out in the AV referendum was carried by just one vote. Pressure on ministers to grant concessions is mounting. Next week's deadline for Royal Assent is starting to look very close.
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Comment number 1.
At 8th Feb 2011, AccurateChronometer wrote:So, Mr Smith, would it be fair to say that your presumptively premature 'crunchtime' pronouncement of January 13th - /blogs/grahamsmith/2011/01/devonwall_bill_crunchtime_on_m.html - was amateurishly and giddily mis-judged ?
How are you getting on with your investigation into all those dodgy multiple property owner multiple electoral roll voter registrations (including MPs) and other multiple electoral roll registrants and their bearing on the AV v FPTP referendum and constituency population calculations and boundary setting?
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