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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,uk.politics
- Subject: Re: Tony Benn to abolish monarchy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.135916.14548@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:59:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.135500.14300@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
- >In article <C194F8.18C@newcastle.ac.uk>, w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
- >|> Tony Benn is to submit a private members bill to parliament
- >|> called something like "The Commonwealth of Great Britain Bill"
- >
- >Given that private members' bills have essentially no chance of
- >becoming law, even if they're non-controversial, I would submit that
- >the `subject' of your article was a teensy bit misleading :-)
-
- That's not true. Private members' bills quite often become law as
- long as the Government is reasonably sympathetic. (That doesn't
- apply to this one, of course.)
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