So WE are now paying back the money the Govt stole from us??

[Bend-it]

Is there any way of finding out who voted for and who voted against this urgent legislation?

You putting together a hit list MDU?

[ManDownUnder]

You putting together a hit list MDU?

Of sorts - yes. Collectivley "they" voted for an urgent bill to get Labour off the hook etc... it's hard to vote against "them"

It's a lot easier to vote against "Michael Cullen", or "Helen Clark" etc. I only have one MP for my electorate, and I want to know if they're morally capable.

[Bend-it]

Yeah, but they'd vote accoding to their party, wouldn't they? Unless it's a conscience vote, which this isn't, I don't think...

[Krayy]

Thing thats shits me is that all other legislation gets pushed to the back seat while these fuckers push the payback legislation under urgency. This means that I'm stuck for another couple of months with a $600k+ mortgage while waiting for the WHRS legislation to come into effect so I can stiff the council for a quarter mill.

Screw them....hippies

[ManDownUnder]

This just in (a relly of mine works in Parliament... oh gee damn)

The Bill you're talking about is the Appropriation (Parliamentary
Expenditure Validation) Bill. It's currently (as in right this very
minute) receiving its first reading, it then needs to go to select
committee (though I think this step can be skipped - not exactly sure),
then to a second reading, then to a third reading, and is then voted on.


Parliament is under urgency for the reading of the Bill though I think
these stages are expected to be completed in the next day or 2.

The place to read the debates, votes, etc is Hansard which is a record
of parliamentary business. Go to
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/3/6/3/36308db1950e415ba419823ea216152b.htm
and you'll see there are links to records of debates in the House -
they're not in real time though, and the most recent one is 12 October
but today's transcript will be there soon.

For a live audio stream of the debate, go to
http://www.radionz.co.nz/parliament.

www.parliament.nz is well worth checking out, there is a tonne of good
info on there.

Edit - it's playing live right now... tis interesting!