Permission sought to suspend parliament!

[daphine2004]

BBC breaking news:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

Hope she says no!

Prorogation of parliament usually happens annually or after every change of government

But we aren’t in normal circumstances. When a new government takes power they are usually confident that they can govern. The government only has a working majority of 1.

The government aren’t suspending parliament so that they can establish a new government, they are suspending parliament because they aren’t confident that they have the support of the house.

Prorogation of parliament does indeed happen regularly. No one disputes that.

However, there has been no change of government - there's been a change of PM which isn't the same thing. Prorogation also usually only lasts for a few days, not a few weeks. This is not 'business as usual and it is gaslighting of epic proportions for Johnson, Rees-Mogg and all the rest of them to try to suggest that it is.

It is a profoundly undemocratic attempt to use our unwritten constitution - which basically relies on the PM being a decent, moral human being with the best interests of the country at heart, not a fucking sociopath - to drive through a destructive policy which is wanted only by a tiny minority of the population. If it were happening in any other country we would have no trouble calling it a coup.

If you think any of this is 'literally what usually happens', then you're not paying attention.

@Phimma, you can't claim that 17 million people voted for Brexit on any terms - because the Leave campaign was absolutely insistent that No Deal was never going to happen.

This article is useful in outlining what was said coming up to referendum

I looked because I find it interesting wrt what people were voting for - the Leave side anyway.

BBC

The idea of a New deal was mentioned more than no deal