The government has said it will not allow any more time to debate a bill on moving UK time forward by an hour, despite calls from MPs on all sides of the House for it to do so.Speaking during the business statement on 26 January 2012, Commons Leader Sir George Young said the Daylight Saving Bill, a private members' bill , introduced by Tory Rebecca Harris, should not be given any more time because it stood no chance of becoming law. A small group of MPs talked out the bill during its report stage on a recent Friday sitting.
The government has said it will not allow any more time to debate a bill on moving UK time forward by an hour, despite calls from MPs on all sides of the House for it to do so.
Speaking during the business statement on 26 January 2012, Commons Leader Sir George Young said the Daylight Saving Bill, a private members' bill , introduced by Tory Rebecca Harris, should not be given any more time because it stood no chance of becoming law.
A small group of MPs talked out the bill during its report stage on a recent Friday sitting.
Are they trying to move closer to East Coast time? Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Then there's Jacob Rees-Mogg's proposal for an independent Somerset time zone, and Philip Davies' proposal to call it the "Berlin Time" Bill.
As a policies addict with an aversion for politics, I am rather annoyed. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
I'm a policies person, but a democracy addict. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
