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  Queen's Speech - UK Membership of the EU - Nuclear Weapons - House of Lords - Devolution - Refugee Crisis in Europe
  
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  @ MP voted aye to call for the Government to outline a positive vision for the UKâs continued membership of the EU; against spending Â£200 billion on new nuclear weapons; in favour of abolishing the House of Lords; in favour of meaningful devolution to the nations and regions of the UK and in favour of contributing to the resolution of the refugee crisis in Europe.
  
  @ MP voted no against calling for the Government to outline a positive vision for the UKâs continued membership of the EU; for spending Â£200 billion on new nuclear weapons; against abolishing the House of Lords; against meaningful devolution to the nations and regions of the UK and against contributing to the resolution of the refugee crisis in Europe.
  
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against calling for the Government to outline a positive vision for the UKâs continued membership of the EU; for spending Â£200 billion on new nuclear weapons; against abolishing the House of Lords; against meaningful devolution to the nations and regions of the UK and against contributing to the resolution of the refugee crisis in Europe.
  
  
  The debate on the content of the government's legislative programme outlined Queens' speech is technically, and traditionally, on the subject of a message of thanks which the house is to send the monarch for making the speech. 
  
  The motion under consideration was:
  
  :That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:
  
  :Most Gracious Sovereign,
  
  :We, Your Majestyâs most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2016-05-18b.1.0&s=speaker%3A13935#g1.2 the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament].
  
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote sought to add the following to the end of the message:
  
  :âbut
  :''regret'' that the measures set out fail to meet the challenges facing the majority of people living in the nations and regions of the UK; 
  :''call in particular for your Government'' to change course on plans for austerity spending cuts, which are damaging the UKâs economic growth and punishing the incomes of hardworking people, and to consider a modest investment in public services to stimulate economic growth; and
  :''further call'' on your Government to withdraw proposals to waste as much as Â£200 billion on new nuclear weapons, to go further than the recommendations of the Strathclyde Review by abolishing the House of Lords, to work more respectfully with the nations and regions of the UK to deliver meaningful devolution, to acknowledge its responsibility as a member of the international community in contributing to the resolution of the refugee crisis in Europe and to acknowledge its responsibility to outline a positive vision for the UKâs continued membership of the EU.
  
  
  The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament claims renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system will cost Â£205bn[1]
  
  * [1] [http://www.cnduk.org/campaigns/no-to-trident  No to Trident webpage,  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]
  
  
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