Filibustered Patent Bill

Alistair Burt spoke for nearly half an hour to “filibuster” the proposed Off-Patent Drugs Bill, a plan that had cross-party support from backbenchers.

A filibuster is a parliamentary procedure where debate over a proposed piece of legislation is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a vote on the proposal. It is sometimes referred to as talking out a bill or talking a bill to death

For those of you who want to watch it (I guess in UK). 

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However there was cross-party support and apparently 13 of  SNP MPs  came down to London to see the Christmas Lights they could not embaress the Government as they didn't get a chance to vote:-).
However was there enough people there anyway?

So the charities need to be strategic  and have a rethink and then get 100,000 signatures to make Parliment debate this issue properly.

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