General Election Bill 2005 (Lords), House of Lords

[King James I]

Section 1: Length
Elections (when people may change other parties etc.) may last for three days.

Section 2: Term
The time between an election ending and election beginning must be no more than 5 months exactly.

Section 3: Campaign
The Sovereign must annoucne a general election 10 days before it begins. These 10 days shall be known as the campaign time.

Section 4: Policy promotion
During the campaign time, parties may take as much time in releasing their policies, but must have all their policies published in speeches or in their party forums etc etc by midnight on the last night of the campaign.

Section 5: Deciding
Only the Soveriegn has the power to call an election. The Soveriegn 'should' work on the advice of the Prime Minister. If the Soveriegn refuses, the Prime Minister may hold a vote in the House of Commons (that does not have to have the acceptance of the House of Lords); if the Commons supports the Prime Minister, then Soveriegn 'must' act on the Prime Minister's advice for that perticular election.


PREVIOUS SEC. 5 = (Only the Soveriegn has the power to call an election. The Soveriegn 'should' work on the advice of the Prime Minister. If the Soveriegn refuses, the Prime Minister may hold a vote in the House of Commons (that does not have to have the acceptance of the House of Lords); if the Commons supports the Prime Minister by a overall majority of 15%, and the turnout is above 50%, then Soveriegn 'must' act on the Prime Minister's advice for that perticular election.)


TIMETABLE
Saturday 26th June - Tuesday 29th June: Debate in the House of Lords
Tuesday 29th June: Vote in the House of Lords

[Baron Survivor]

I would like to start this debate off, I would like to kick off with something not to deal with this house but the Commons Committee. All of the committee discussion up to this point have been literally empty, and I determined to not let this happen in the House of Lords, even though we only have 5 members and the House of Commons has 39 members who affiliated to political parties.

Now, on to the bill. I would like to say that elections no longer concern is reality, as we are not elected but appoint by His Majesty. i think that we may soon have Sir Rob with us, so maybe we might have his knowledge to add to ours. Any thoughts from the opposition members.

[Baron People]

For the first time I can safely say that me and my party agree with what they bills have to say. The opposition parties rightly fully amended section 5, and we are all the better for it. I don’t think we have anything really to debate on this bill, since the only we wanted to change was section to get rid of the part of section which gave the monarchy powers to stop elections being held when the prime minister wishes. I am sure the liberals will join my in this belief.

[Baron Range]

Certainly we will.

[Baron Survivor]

I think we are all as happy and contented we can be with this bill. Can I please just say that we were discussing holding an amendment here in the lords to bring back the original section 5, but the Prime minister has asked us not to since it would take up a lot of time as it would have to return to the Commons for debate on the amendment and the vote etc.

[Baron People]

Thank God the Prime Minister advised you against it. It would have wasted everyone’s time and we are all happier with the original section 5 rejected anyway, this bill is perfect as it is and we dot need any more amendments.

[King James I]

the vote is to postponed until Monday.