NHS Reinstatement Bill: Tory MPs filibuster debate by talking about deporting foreigners for hours

The NHS Reinstatement Bill was proposed by the Green MP Caroline Lucas

Backbench Conservative MPs have blocked plans for a debate and vote on a bill to reverse private sector involvement in the NHS.

Green MP Caroline Lucas had sponsored the so-called NHS Reinstatement Bill, which campaigners say would roll back the health service’s “internal market”, end contracting, and return the NHS to purely public provision.

The Bill is backed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell in a private capacity, as well as by the SNP.

However despite scheduling on Friday the Bill did not receive a full debate because backbench Conservative MPs discussing a short bill to deport foreign criminals – which had already been debate before – used up available parliamentary time by talking for four and a half hours.

The Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion from the UK) Bill has only two clauses and would “make provision to exclude from the UK foreign nationals found guilty of a criminal offence committed in the UK.”

That Bill has already been introduced to the House in a previous session and withdrawn after it met opposition.
Ms Lucas raised a point of order an hour before the end of the discussion on deportation, arguing that the MPs were taking too long.

“Madame Deputy Speaker, is it within your power to suggest to the opposite benches that they do begin to bring their comments to a close?” she asked

More at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-reinstatement-bill-tory-mps-filibuster-debate-by-talking-about-deporting-foreigners-for-hours-a6925781.html


Doesn't surprise me, we virtually don't have an NHS anymore, so much of it is now privatised.  Jeremy Hunt has done just what he set out to do.   No wonder he was voted Dick of the Year.

`the reason OUR health service is in such a ill state is because of forunuz scrounging from it, trans gender benderz, women wanting whoppa stoppuz and so forth.
Forun doctors usless.
Forunuz breeding like rabbits.

Do you not understand?????????????

The money in the pot is ours, not for the entire world.

Don't talk such bloody rot.

sassy wrote:Don't talk such bloody rot.

Sob sister pc leftiz never like the truth, do they.

Why do you hate this country so much and want to give it away?

Stormee wrote:`the reason OUR health service is in such a ill state is because of forunuz scrounging from it, trans gender benderz, women wanting whoppa stoppuz and so forth.
Forun doctors usless.
Forunuz breeding like rabbits.

Do you not understand?????????????

The money in the pot is ours, not for the entire world.

I wish you'd speak properly.