Why the ‘individual conscience vote’ of MPs had its own assisted death last week
Two votes in the joints were divided into four days, paved the way for a seismic change in the British social policy.
However, even though the abortion (Tuesday) votes (Tuesday) and supported death (Friday) are officially issues of individual conscience, the evidence of both shows that Britain is closer to moral issues than ever before.
If you vote for the Labor Party or Lib Dem, you are more likely to receive a pro -election deputy, and if you vote for conservative or reform, you are more likely to receive a pro -life deputy. This is not an accident, more and more design.
How did the parties vote for living and death
On Tuesday, the abortion of abortion by Labour Gower deputy Tonia Antoniazzi from 379 to 137 by the change of crime and policing.
This 291 Labor Party deputy in favor and only 25 voted against 25, 63 lib DEMS in favor of the Dems and only two against.
On the other side, 92 TORY deputies voted and only four in favor. Four were abstained by voting in both lobbies. No reform deputies were supported and four voted.
The division is not plain in the assistant dying game of Friday, but still reveals a tendency.
Kim Leadbeater’s bill supported the support of 224 Labor Party deputies against 160 and 56 lib DEMS against 15.
On the other side, the Tories is divided against 20 against 20, while the reform is in favor of three and two.
Instead of giving a completely free vote, Kemi Badenoch put a two -line whip in the abortion vote. This showed a party position without a threat of disciplinary punishment with a three -line whip. However, after the abortion vote, senior Tories complained that Mrs. Badenoch did not withdraw the whip of four deputies who voted for discrimination.
It was different in 1967
Britain returned to the Liberal Deputy David Steel’s abortion legislation and workers’ deputy Leo Abse in 1967 with the law of sexual crimes accusing homosexuality.
In both cases, the parties left the votes of conscience, who saw that the right -wing Tor Deputy Enoch Powell and Soltwing workers’ deputy Tony Benn came together to support legalization of homosexuality.
Ed Miliband Effect
The erosion of the vote of conscience in the UK came more than the hardening of the positions of the progressive left parties in the UK and worsened by the so -called cultural wars.
In 2012, Ed Miliband applied a three -storey whip to the Labor Party deputies on homosexual marriage. LGBTQ+ issues ended for the first time as an individual conscientious thing.
Later, in 2019, former deputy Roger Godsiff was left as a working candidate to support parents who protested the primary school children who were taught about relationships in the same sex in the Birmingham election zone.
This year, we see that the reform UK seized the Council’s control and banned LGBTQ+ flags from the district halls where diversity, equality and incorporating officers and policies are trying to cleanse their municipalities.
There is no excuse for Tories and reform anti -gamp, which has made the gender critical stance of Gender Badenoch a part of its political identity.
While abortion is officially a matter of conscience, in 2017, Jacob Rees-Mogg is not suitable for being a party leader because of his views on abortion in 2017.
What has been for several years is that the majority of the catholic tradition of labor and evangelical tradition in Lib DEMS, mostly conservative, socially conservative, has been quietly removed through scanning in the election processes.
Against David Campanale and Lib DEMS
An ongoing legal lawsuit, which includes liberal democrats and one of its former candidates, emphasized a significant great shift in British politics for the politics of the party.
Former BBC journalist David Campanale was thrown as a candidate for Sutton and Cheam before the last election, because he claimed his Christian beliefs.
According to the documents submitted in the case, Luke Taylor, who changed himself to a candidate, claimed that “Shirley Williams and Charles Kennedy, such as Christian beliefs, claimed that the leading liberal democrats in the past, the party of the party, and the Christians do not expect the Christians to have religious or physical ideas”.
Mr. Taylor was presenting votes in favor of abortion change on Tuesday, and at the same time he described the voting that he supported as “a good way to reserve the week properly”.
If Mr. Campanale wins the case, it will first offer evidence that the choice has taken place on conscience problems and other issues.
Lib refused the allegations and said his leaders Sir Ed Davey went to the church.
However, Christian Lib Dems, including former leader Simon Hughes, expressed his concerns, and the party was condemned by two bishops. And an old Canterbury Archbishop. In addition to Tim Farron, who voted against abortion and helped to die last week, he was dismissed as a leader in the face of Christian beliefs in 2017.
During the assisted dying voting, a number of supporters of the bill argued that religious beliefs had no place to decide on such issues. A real separation from conscience.
However, in the UK, a brand of conservatism emerges that clearly embraces traditional Christian values.
Reflecting the dying voting supported, Toray Deputy Danny Kruger, a leading opponent of the bill, said: orsa If we will endure our enemies, we will bring our society together and domesticate the technique (somehow we will be sure that human values will manage the new age of the machines), we will need to work.
“Whatever the humanist atheism or progressive liberalism or new religion should be called, it depends on it. Christianity. I don’t think it’s just Christianity.”
A warning from America
In the United States, the vote of conscience, in 1973, rapidly began to parit more as a result of the decision of Roe vs Wade abortion. Social conservatives gradually began to take over the democrats of republicans.
Recently, it has actually played wildly in the election of the Supreme Court justice that overthrew Roe v Wade with a conservative majority.
The most interesting US development is that a man like Donald Trump, who was previously unclear on abortion, adopts a strong abortion line to satisfy his base.
This used the threat of abortion rights, which had a great impact on the damage to the democrats and Republicans in the 2022 midterm exams. However, in 2024, he did very little to help Kamala Harris.
However, the fact that the parties with very strong opinions in one way or another can be elected to a large extent for economic reasons is that they can only bring a great baggage to the problems of conscience. After this week, some would claim that the same thing was in the opposite direction in England.
