Parliament is stifling public debate

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Thursday, 12 November 2009 (on November 12, 2009)

MPs just don't want to engage with votersMove along, now. There's nothing to see. That's the command that the debate police always manage to get across. The tragedy is that Parliament is the debate..

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