This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Stop MPs blocking scheduled debates by making excessively long speeches.
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Caroline Lucas tried to introduce the NHS Reinstatement Bill, however backbench MPs used up scheduled time making excessively long speeches on a short bill which had already been debated. This may be viewed as a deliberate attempt to block the bill through undemoocratic methods and should be banned.
This is not the only example of this and it makes a mockery of a system which is meant to be democratic.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111441
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