Early Day Motion·EDM 771

PRE-ELECTION LEGISLATION

23 February 20057 Signatures

Motion Text

That this House believes that General Election dates should be announced three months in advance and that no legislation should be enacted in the pre-election period, which should be used for debating draft bills; notes the lamentable collapse of the courage and critical abilities of honourable Members induced by pre-elections tension as demonstrated by the passing of the legislative absurdity of the Drugs Bill without votes at second or third readings; regrets that this Bill will transform the present VAT-paying legal market of low harm British magic mushrooms into a criminal illegal market of imported potentially dangerous mushrooms; and calls on the unelected Chamber to carry out a wholesale revision of this Bill.