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Digital Economy Bill set to pass into UK law: watch out, hapless home owners! (Download Squad)

Apr 8th 2010 3:36PM I think that's quite unfair

The attention this got was really quite large, enough to take it to the #2 top trending topic on Twitter, and with lots of people taking action and discussing it. Generations of people who were never into politics before took interest here. Thousands of letters sent to MPs, thousands of people trying to make a difference.

The problem? It makes no difference at all. The whips ensure all the Labour and Conservative MPs have to vote yes (3 line whip). At this point, there's nothing the people can do.

The majority of MPs didn't read the bill or care, they do what they were told by the whip. Some were good enough to speak of the opposition and complaints they'd had at the debate - but the debate was a farce, with about 30 MPs at the debate. After the debate, another 200 or so turned up, were told to vote yes by the whip, and went and did so.

There's nothing debating nor people in their constituencies could do.

Because they did it as the government is dieing, therei sn't even any real choice of rebeling. As it was all done so fast and pushed through at last minute, there wasn't even much chance to take more action than was done.

What more could people have done?