Cooperative bill is gathering dust in Parliament as if it is no body’s baby.The amendment bill with wide spread ramification was introduced in 2009 as 111th amendment and was sent to standing committee. Even the Standing  Committee headed by Basudev Acharya sent it back on August 30, 2010. Still there is no forward movement leading a parliamentary panel to castigate government on the issue.

Leading Labour/Co-op MP and former minister Alun Michael has received an apology from the cross-party No2AV campaign after his name appeared in a list of 114 Labour MPs said to be against the constitutional change to be decided in a national referendum on May 5th.