Debate in UK House of Commons on Syria, live link here

[steve2470]

http://www.bloomberg.com/live-stream/

or here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2013/august/commons-debate-on-syria/

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UK House of Lords debate here:


http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2013/august/lords-debates-syria/

[Catherina]

1. Thank you. About to watch now. n/t

[steve2470]

2. yvw ! I love their debates nt

[Catherina]

5. I'm watching the House of Commons

So two pages of A4 paper is what Cameron calls solid evidence?

Which one are you watching?

[steve2470]

6. House of Commons, good points from the opposition bench thankfully nt

[Catherina]

8. George Galloway speaking now. Fireworks and truth coming n/t

[steve2470]

9. yes he's great ! nt

[Bragi]

3. What a great way to debate serious matters

The UK parliamentary system rocks. You have the PM, the Opposition leader, all having to explain and justify their positions to MPs, who get to ask questions directly to the major players. They are shredding Cameron's effort to get approval to bomb Syria before getting any actual evidence showing that the regime used chemical weapons.

[steve2470]

4. yes I really like their system nt

[Catherina]

7. +1 There's a good live blog for the House of Commons at the Guardian with the stream

David Cameron has had a grim 24 hours - when he amended the government motion to promise a second vote on military action, he was effectively conceding that he had "lost" a vote that had not yet taken place - and he seemed tetchy and a bit below par when he spoke this afternoon. He was at his most passionate when he argued that Britain had a vested interest in preventing the framework of international law about chemical weapons constructed over the last 100 years collapsing, but Nick Clegg was just as eloquent on this, if not more so, when he spoke this morning. And it was interesting what he said about having to make a "judgment" on intelligence, but he probably pushed this too far because his attack on Blair over intelligence (see 2.44pm) did not sound particularly prime ministerial.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/aug/29/mps-debate-syria-live-blog


Whoever is speaking now is questioning Cameron's New Doctrine of "punishment" for going to war, not deterrence and saying that's not acceptable. Which one are you watching?

[a kennedy]

10. It was carried on C-SPIN2 earlier.....but I see now, they've got on our past

war criminal.....cheney. Ugh.....