Final scores on the doors*: 185 Labour and 4 Conservatives voted in favour of vested interests, and 23 Labour rebels and 18 Lib Dems voted in favour of the people they actually serve.

Kate Hoey MP mutters about a ‘stitch up’ between the Front Benches of the various parties which does beg the question, if it’s true, what was in it for David Cameron and Nick Clegg? I suspect people are going to be pouring over the Electoral Commission’s website to see who’s been donating money to whom this year, although perhaps the answer will never be that obvious.

Perhaps the simple truth is that politicians simply don’t understand the Internet, they don’t understand the 20,000 people who wrote to them to complain about this, they don’t understand why it’s profoundly immoral to sieze control of anything without a proper debate, without understanding what it is they’re doing, without proper controls and without acknowledging the very simple test about when it might be acceptable for Government in interfere with individual’s liberty. Whose liberty is at threat, here? Only ours. Only yours. Good luck if you’ve got any teenagers in your house – you’re going to need it.

Asking politicians to humbly accept that their control of something could ever lead to bad things is like asking someone with hayfever to stop sneezing….  while you’re chasing them up the street with bin bag full of grass cuttings.

Update: Alix Mortimer, whom I have been making look prolific in recent months, actually watched the thing happening on the telly, which she’s documented here. She makes it sound even worse, which is saying something.

*Thanks to Alix Mortimer