"MP's have little to do"
wails Jack Straw (my emphasis):
"The government is running dry of legislation from its programme to put before MPs.
"So desperate have they been to manufacture activity that
ordinary bills that could and should go into a public bill committee
where they can properly be examined line-by-line are now to have all
their stages on the floor - a procedure normally reserved for bills of
great constitutional importance.
"I can rarely recall a time when the business of the Commons has been so light..."
There's, obviously,
a very good reason why this is the case but neither, unsurprisingly, Jack Straw nor the BBC are willing to highlight it.
