Notorious games industry critic continues crusade for tighter retail management
Eleven MPs have signed a new Early Day Motion tabled by Labour MP Keith Vaz which calls for ‘carefully controlled’ video games sales to those under 18, and encouragement for parents to limit the time which children spend using video games.
The Commons petition “welcomes the call by Shigero Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario, for people to drop their joypads and venture out into the sunlight once in a while”, and was tabled last Friday, May 13th. It has collected 11 cross-party signatures since then.
Eight of those signatures are from Labour MPs, with single signatories from the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the DUP also lending their names to the list.
Those signatories have all essentially agreed that “video games have addictive properties”, and that they should be combined with a variety of extra-curricular activities to ensure that “children flourish”.
The motion also “notes the current Hungarian EU Presidency priority of protecting minors from harmful audiovisual media content in media legislation.”
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The motion itself will be of limited legislative consequence. By definition, an Early Day Motion will have no debate in parliament. Keith Vaz’ campaign for tighter video games regulation is unlikely, however, to lose steam any time soon.
"for people to drop their joypads and venture out into the sunlight once in a while"
Because everyone who as much as knows what a videogame is immediately and uncontrollably becomes a recluse.
Vaz: there's a reason you've become a joke within the games media, and it's not for simply criticizing games, it's because you litter your campaign with outdated stereotypes and direct lies like this.
Stop it, and you might start getting somewhere.
As if we needed any more proof that the majority of the Labour party are idiots.
As an idiot, I resent that comment.
It's not just the Labour Party. It's the whole damn pus-filled bubonic boil of politicians of every foul and mendacious stripe.
(ps: "here", not "hear").
pps: it's also worth remembering that Keith Vaz claimed £75k in expenses for a flat 12 miles from his family home, and indulged in other bits of activity that might be considered mild skullduggery by people less charitable than myself. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298267/Keith-Vaz-75000-for-a-flat-12-miles-from-home.html
If other words, you don't need to print silly looking pictures of Keith "22 cushions on expenses" Vaz. Must be a bloody big sofa.
