Tory MP protests over coalition plan for prisoner votes

[Joanne98]

Source: BBC

A Conservative MP from Northamptonshire has criticised a coalition government plan to allow prisoners to vote.

Kettering MP Philip Hollobone said the proposal was another case of the "Lib Dem tail wagging the Conservative dog".

In a statement he said the coalition did not need to obey a recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that prisoners should be allowed to vote.

The government said prisoners serving less than four years will get the right because of fears over compensation


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[Heywood J]

1. Less than four years means they'll likely be out in time to live

under the government they'll be voting for. Otherwise, it could be considered taxation without the ability to have a say in the government once they're released.

But this asshat doesn't seem to understand that his party needs the Lib Dems to stay in power and thinks they can govern as if they had their own majority, much less against a human rights ruling. Some people just don't deserve to serve.