Margot on Democracy

TEBAF Margot was in London and had this to say about Parliament:

The weather did not help MPs and Ministers scurrying to reach the votes
in 8 minutes before the doors are locked in the Chamber of the House of
Commons. I hope the British will forgive my Swedish eye on this rather
arcane way of implementing democracy.

Quite, so horribly outdated, this idea of actually counting each and every vote:

Yesterday, in Brussels though, he triumphantly proclaimed that his call
for electronic voting had been fully justified, when the most
outrageous error to date was exposed. During voting on a report by Mr.
Kaczmarek on "EU partnership in the Horn of Africa", amendment No. 5
was declared "Rejected" by the chairman Vidal Quadras, having assessed
the show of hands "for" and "against" the amendment.

An
electronic check then revealed that it had actually been APPROVED by no
less than 567 votes to 17 (with 18 abstentions). Quadras blamed the
MEPs for "not holding their hands high enough".

Why, you might actually get a result that was "incorrect" if you did that!

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