In my humble opinion, the Commons Amendments Committee is somewhat of a shocking failure. Any system where the voting record looks like this needs to change. Very frequently, only the Tories, or sometimes Tory-LPUK, or Tory-LD, actually show up to vote on amendments. This essentially means the right controls the entirety of Commons amendments just by showing up.

But Britboy, maybe it's just too hard to vote! Nope, we've been through so many processes to make voting on Commons amendments as easy as it could possibly be. Parties have to nominate literally just one single person to vote on behalf of their whole party, so you'd think they can just pick their most active, reliable member of leadership, and job's a good un, right? But maybe that's too hard, so to help them out even more, we ping the committee members to remind them to vote. Surely everyone will vote now!

But they're not voting. Why not? Apathy is the only reason I can think of. The Commons simply don't care that much about amendments. We already abolish the minor amendments committee because it was an annoying waste of time and effort that no-one cared, about, abolishing the rest of Commons amendments is the natural next step.

We should abolish the Commons Amendments Committee

• The committee in its current form is broken and meaningless - if only the Tories vote, this is not representative of our Parliament, or useful, it's just a waste of time.

• We could return the Lords to being the amending chamber, giving increased purpose to MHoL.

• We could remove several steps from the bill process, meaning bills can be read and debated faster and fewer times. Less repetition, bills reach Royal Assent quicker, everyone is a winner.

• The Commons simply don't care about their own amendments - we've tried making it as easy as possible for the most active Mhoccers, but all we've proved is that the only reason amendments aren't getting voted on is that people don't care.

• We've already abolished the Minor Amendments Committee for similar reasons, this is the next step.

I look forward to a speedy response from the Quad.

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