Saturday 31 October 2015

Tory MPs block attempts to abolish hospital parking charges for carers

Three Tory MPs have talked out a bill to abolish hospital parking charges for carers in England.

Philip Davies, Christopher Chope and David Nuttall used the whole three hours allocated to Labour MP, Julie Cooper's bill, to talk nonsense so there was no time to debate and vote on it. This is referred to as filibustering and Philip Davies MP is an expert at it.

The average cost of a week's parking at a hospital in England is £39 and in London it can be as high as £130.