MPs from the West Midlands signed a joint declaration attacking Labour's laxity on the issue.
They even promised a Cyber Threat Assessment Centre (CTAC), which would reputedly be as critical to UK security as JTAC, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre created by Labour in 2003.
FORBES: Can The UK's Cybersecurity Spending Boost Survive The "Age Of Austerity"?
The proposed cuts have been drawn up in a joint effort between the council's Labour and Conservative groups.
The British side appears to have dominated the writing of the joint document, which is full of New Labour jargon and policies.
And a Labour councillor questioned the accountability of joint departments.
Much of it goes into joint ventures with local partners, so Chinese land, labour and capital equipment are put to good use.
In a point of order yesterday, Labour procedure wonk Chris Bryant obtained confirmation that joint committees operate under Lords standing orders, which means that the committee chair will have both a vote in their own right and a casting vote - which could give the government point of view more clout in deciding its conclusions.
Rather, he noted acerbically, it was Labour which was involved with the Tories in a joint campaign to thwart independence.
The former Labour minister was giving evidence to the Draft Defamation Bill Joint Committee, which has been set up to investigate the proposals.
BBC: Falconer: Libel plans are 'impressive' and 'worthwhile'
Labour former minister Fiona MacTaggart also criticised the way the Joint Committee's inquiry into the work of the EHRC had been handled, saying it was "more like a show trial about an individual".
When Fine Gael and Labour agreed to work as coalition partners, they issued a joint document saying voters had chosen parties "to begin mending the pieces of a fractured society, a broken economy".
Seoul has said the purpose of the complex was to develop a joint industrial park where South Korean companies could manufacture their products using North Korean labour.
But rather than set up production in a country with labour costs as high as Germany, Siemens could have entered into a joint-venture with an Asian manufacturer.
In its defence review in 2010, the coalition announced that it was cancelling the previous Labour government's decision to purchase jump-jet version of the Joint Strike Fighter (the F35-B) and opt instead for the catapult and trap (F35-C) type, which required a different set-up on deck.
Joint leadership may also work well in the tech world because there is an obvious division of labour between technologically minded product managers and sales and marketing types.
应用推荐