Parliament votes for a public enquiry on the effects of welfare reforms: it wasn’t reported and the government is ignoring it.

On Monday, something happened in the House of Commons that should cause electors to wonder what parliament is for. The motion before the house was that “a commission of inquiry be established to investigate the impact of the government’s welfare reforms on the incidence of poverty”. At the vote the government was defeated by 125 votes to two. The result: nothing at all – it wasn’t reported and the government is ignoring it.

Read the rest of this article by Michael Meacher MP here: http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2014/01/what-is-the-point-of-parliament/