Niranjan Deva responds
On arriving home today, the reply of Nirajan Deva was waiting in my inbox. Finally, a real reply from the Conservatives! Upon reading it, I wish they hadn’t bothered.
The position summary: They fully support the current bill, thought all the amendments by the parliament would make it unworkable, and they will all vote in support of it. The rest of the mail reiterates the standard garbage about how it will “not increase patentability” and “is needed for clarification”. I will be responding with a proper rebuttal at some point in the next few days, but until then, it seems the Conservative party in both the UK and EU is so out of touch with reality as to be entirely pointless.

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