Two votes in Commons separated for four days One of the most important in the modern history of Parliament kept the ground for an earthquake change in British social policy last week.
but while Vote on abortion (Tuesday) And Helped dying (Friday) Officially there were cases of personal conscience, evidence from both suggests that the UK is now closer to the politicization of the US-style party of moral issues.
If you vote for Labor or Lib Dame, you are more likely to be a pro-choice MP, if you vote for conservative or reform then you are more likely to be a Pro-Life MP. This is not an accident, it is growing rapidly by design.
How parties voted on life and death
Discussion of abortion till the birth amendment in crime and policing bill set by Labor Gover MP on Tuesday Tonia Antoniazi Won from 379 to 137.
These 291 labor MPs voted in favor and against only 25, while 63 Lib Dames were in favor and only two against two.
On the other hand, 92 Tory MPs voted and only four sides. Voting both one and four in the lobby. No reform MPs supported and voted against four.
This partition is not as much stuck on Friday’s assisted dyeing vote, but still reveals a tendency.
Kim leadbatterThe bill was supported by 224 fellow Labor MPs with 160 and 56 Lib Dames with 56.
On the other hand, Tories divided 92 in favor of 20, while the reform was against three and in two sides.
Kemi badenoch Instead of allowing completely free votes, put two line whip on abortion votes. This indicated the status of a party without the threat of disciplinary action that would come with the three -line whip. However, remarkably, after the abortion votes, senior toris were complaining that Ms. Badenoch had not withdrawn the whip of four MPs who had voted for the diagonalization.
It was different in 1967
Last time Britain saw Parliament vote on such seismic social change, returned with Liberal MP in 1967. David SteelAbortion law and labor MP Leo Abs’s Sexual Offenses Act that reduces homosexuality.
In both those cases, the parties divided into the middle of the votes of conscience, who saw the odd alliance of writing. Tory MP Anoc Powell And Lifting Labor MP Tony Ben is coming together to support using homosexuality.
Ed milliband effect
The erosion of the conscience’s vote in Britain has actually come more than the strict positions from progressive leftist parties in Britain and the so -called culture has been provoked by wars.
In 2012, Ed Milliband imposed a three-line whip on Labor MPs on gay marriage. The LGBTQ+ case first ended as something of individual discretion.
Then in 2019, former MP Roger Godsif In his Birmingham constituency, he was dropped as a labor candidate to support parents, which was being taught about the same-lingo relationships to primary school children.
This year we look at the reform of the County Hall to ban LGBTQ+ flags, where they have controlled the council and attempted to purify the councils of diversity, equity and inclusion officers and policies.
While abortion is officially a matter of conscience, in 2017, now the home secretary Yatete Cooper unfit for Jacob Reis Mog to be a party leader because his thoughts on abortion were informative.
What has happened in many years is that most of the socially conservative, most Catholic traditions have been removed through selection processes in labor.
David Campnel vs Lib Dames
One of the Liberal Democrats and one of its former candidates has highlighted a clear major change in British politics to politicize the party of conscience.
Former BBC journalist David Campnel Before the last election, Sutton was kicked as a candidate, as he claims his Christian beliefs.
According to the documents presented in the case, Luke Taylor, who replaced him as a candidate, claimed that “the party of previous prominent liberal Democrats with Christians and Christian beliefs like Sherly Williams and Charles Kennedy, ‘the party,’, ‘and he and others were building a’ secular party ‘, which would not have a place for his religious or stricts”. ,
Mr. Taylor on Tuesday was Taylor for votes in favor of abortion amendment, who also described assisted dyeing votes, which he supported, “a good way to book the week neatly.”
If Mr. Campnel wins his case, it will first provide evidence that the selection is being done on other matters along with the issues of discretion.
Lib Dames denied claims and told that their leaders go to SR Ed Davi Church. But Christian Lib Dames including former Deputy Leader Simon Hughes has voiced concerns and Two party bishops have been condemnedAnd A former archbishop of canterburyThe Tim Faran, which voted against abortion last week and assisted to die, was excluded as a leader on his Christian beliefs in 2017.
Many supporters of the bill suggested that during the assisted dyeing vote Religious belief had no place in deciding such issuesA real departure from discretion.
But a brand of conservatism is emerging in Britain which openly embraces traditional Christian values.
Considering the assisted dyeing vote, Tory MP, a major rival of the bill, said: “If we want to face our enemies, we bring our society together, and subdue the technium (somehow ensure that human values control the new era of machines), we need values that are needed to work.
“I don’t think that humanitarian atheism or progressive liberalism or whatever new religion should be called is. It is Christianity. There is only Christianity.”
A warning from america
In the US, in 1973, Vivek Votes became more party-politics as a result of Roe vs. Wade miscarriage. Social conservatives gradually began to capture the Republican on the correct and social progressives.
It has played brutally in the selection of Supreme Court Justice, who recently overturned Roe Ved with a conservative majority.
The most interesting American development is the method that a person like an obscure Donald Trump on the first abortion has adopted a strong abortion line to please his base.
It was played in 2022 Midatories to play with Democrats with Republicans, using the danger for abortion rights. But it was very low to help Kamala Harris in 2024.
Although it shows that sides with very strong thoughts can be selected in a way or the other on a large scale on an economic basis, but a lot of goods can be brought with them on conscience issues. After this week, some arguments will be made that the same thing has happened in the opposite direction in Britain.