There was an interesting result in a division today on an amendment to the Wales Bill. The vote was tied 222 to 222. Where there is a tied vote, which occasionally happens, the Lord Speaker, or peer on the Woolsack, has no casting vote. The rule that determines the outcome is straightforward. There has to be a majority for a motion to be carried. As there was no majority for the amendment, it was lost.
Interesting in a “duellistic”
“first past the post” horse-racing mobile-society “democracy”,
an Anne-Robinsonian Pedagogic “Educational” 3-bullet-questions in a row “sudden death” decider;
a similar “fair-play peace-building”
soccer penalty ‘shoot-out’
and a “world-exemplary ‘democracy’ “ping-pong” parliamentary system
under a Non-Up-Date-able “Monarchic ” constitution …
don’t you think ?
In the month named for a two-faced god, in a chamber you call the second, there was a division (in two). The result was 222 to 222.
Should we revisit this post on the 22? Perhaps of February?