Desperate

[ailie]

Minister flying back from Mexico to vote on tuition fees then flying back to Climate Change conference? doooh

[NazNomad]

??

[New Judge]

Quite.

We are all meant to feel guilty about flying to the Costas for our holidays because of the alleged impact that air travel has upon the environment.

Meantime, ministers from all over the world can converge on Mexico to cobble up ways of milking their citizens in the false belief that taxing people’s movements will somehow prevent so-called Climate Change. Some from the UK, as we have learned, are going to make an extra round trip just to go through a Commons division.
Strangely those special advisors to the government that tried to persuade me to dig up my Rhododendrons and Roses and instead plant bananas and Coconut trees and who said that grapes would be cultivated on the North Yorkshire Moors within a few years seem to have disappeared under the snow.

[jno]

that's what happens in politics - they have to represent their electorate at home and their country abroad, sometimes simultaneously. I would have thought some sort of absentee voting system could be set up.

[boxtops]

I think that's awful, I heard about it on the news tonight - Government buying tickets to fly back two people (I think that's what I heard), then presumably they go back again after the vote. Green, or what?!

[jake-the-peg]

As it is he's not going to now.

There's a Lib Dem there with him who would fly back and vote against him if he did so neither are doing so.

A classic Mexican stand off

<Sorry I'll get me coat>

[Khandro]

I'm so relieved Jake, you get your coat, and I'll do a Mexican hat dance.

[ABerrant]

Until 14 years ago MPs did operate a pairing (absentee voting) system...

http://en.wikipedia.o...iamentary_convention)

[heathfield]

It's been known in the past for political parties to carry ill MPs from their hospital beds to the Commons to take part in a close vote.