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Breaking news at 6.19 pm: A vote has just been held in the House of Commons on 42 days' detention and the Brown Labour Government has won the vote by just 9 votes.

The eurosceptic Democratic Unionist Party (which has 9 MPs in the Commons) voted with the Government.

It is also reported that the UKIP MEP Mr. Bob Spink also backed the Government in the vote.

The Government could have just won the vote without the vote of Mr. Spink by relying on the casting vote of The Speaker.

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Brown narrowly wins 42 days' detention vote - reports say UKIP MP backed legislation

Vortex

Hmm, i'm interested in the response from Ukippers to the news that their MP voted with the government. I cannot believe that the libertarian supporters on here will be pleased with this news, as it flys in the face of some of their basix beliefs.

Britannist

I cannot confirm yet that UKIP MP Mr. Spink did - or did not - vote with the Brown Labour Government on 42 days' detention. I did hear a media report saying that he intended to vote for the Government legislation on this - we shall find out if Mr. Spink did so when the full voting list appears later. He may have abstained, of course.

What we do know, so far, is that 9 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs voted with the Brown Government on this - as did Lady Hermon of the Ulster Unionist Party.

Sky Television News are now reporting that Conservative Ann Widdecombe MP backed the Government in the vote at 6.22 pm today - and that 37 Labour MPs voted with the opposition.

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"It was in the national interest that we vote with the Government on this measure to increase rules on detention from 28 days to 42 days" Nigel Dodds MP, Deputy Leader of the eurosceptic Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), just said on Channel Four Television News. Mr. Dodds added "We voted against 90 days' detention but voted for this."

Smidgey

Who cares whether they were Eurosceptic or not, all the MPs who voted for this bill are traitorous scum and deserve to be booted out at the next election.

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22ANDUK

It doesn't make them 'traitors'.

However it is quite clear those that 'oppose' the government politically voted more with the conscientous than those within the government - we saw far more opposition MPs support the government - Tories, Spink, DUP etc - than we did Labour MPs such as Austin Mitchell etc going against the government (proportionally speaking, I acknoweldge the 37 Labour rebels).

Smidgey

People who voted against this voted because they believe in liberty and they felt that the argument was not made for the extention - more than just conscience.

Those who voted for did so on false or political reasons.

They are traitors to humanity, traitors to Britain and traitors to the many principles of liberty that this country has had for centuries. Most of them, however, were traitors in these respects to begin with anyway.

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