New post Brexit Era - time to move Parliament?

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I realise we're not quite post Brexit yet. It will always be with us. But I wondered if this was now the time to consider this.

The cost to refurbish the Houses of Parliament is in the billions. It creaks, is a combative chamber and represents a past age of Empire.

Isn't it time to 21st century-up and build a striking, sustainable, less combative chamber to represent our values?

Somewhere in the Midlands? Yes, Westminster, 'outside London' DOES exist.

Turn the existing building into a seat of regional government, trade centre and museum to examine empire, commonwealth including the transatlantic slave trade and the UK's place in the world.

Could a change of location, style and design of Parliament building help reform our, at times, deeply unattractive, combative and London-focused system?

I never expected this to be a clickbait thread but hoped it wouldn't be Lead Balloon territory!

To add, I'd rather the billions given to fraudsters was clawed back and spent on something we can actually see and help overhaul an out-dated system.

I'll go now!

I think its a good idea. If the UK is to still exist, i think a rotation around the nations should be part of it too. However i respect that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales may head off in seperate directions.

It'll never happen and instead we'll spend billions on renovating Westminster.

Close Westminster for tourism and build a new parliament and second chamber in, or near, Birmingham and abolish the House of Lords.

I like the idea of a system of rotation around the Nations. Along the lines of a 6 month tenure in each? What role might the leader of that Nation play over the 6 month period? How would the Cabinet work?

Then a striking, new, UK Joint Nation Chamber in Warwickshire please.

I was coming at this from an architectural and 'how good design-effects-behaviour' standpoint. Get the design right and decent behaviour will follow... ever the optimist.

I don't particularly have a view on the House of Lords apart from understanding it is filled with such luminaries as Prof Robert Winston and Floella Benjamin AND creaky government appointments and bought titles. I should read up more on this. 'Baby and bathwater' springs to mind for now.

I realise this is just the germ of an idea, but in throwing around ideas, a gem may appear from the germ and find it's legs. Mixing a few metaphors there so I hope it makes sense!

I don't like the idea of rotation around the nations - it sounds like a shocking waste of money, packing up to leave and set up again every six months or whatever. I do think they should move out of London and scrap the idea of a small chamber which doesn't accommodate every member and encourages an adversarial system. But no, at present they plan to build a temporary HoP in the same style.

I agree a new chamber is needed, one that's designed for its modern purpose.
I would put it in the Midlands or the North of England, for purely practical purposes.

I can see the merits in rotating round the 4 nations, but the disruption and cost would likely be crippling. Perhaps there's a place for holding cabinet meetings or select committees in the 4 nations from time to time, as long as there's a programme of interaction with both local MPs and the devolved parliaments to go along with it.