BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[Scot Dutchy]

The trouble is the UK does not have a government to take unpopular decisions. Blond Scrotum may be PM but it is almost in name only. If the opposition only had half a leader he would be in dead trouble. Wait and see until the UK parliament returns the malaise will just continue.

[Brian Peacock]

Always looking on the bright side eh?

[rainbow]

The topic of pork pies arose on Sunday at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, when Mr Johnson was discussing a possible post-Brexit free trade deal with the US.

Mr Johnson spoke about trying to "prise open the American market" by removing restrictions on UK exports.

Offering an example of an American trade restriction, Mr Johnson said: "Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are sold in Thailand and in Iceland, are currently unable to enter the US market because of, I don't know, some sort of food and drug administration restriction."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49470831

[Brian Peacock]

He'll tell a whopper everyday if it helps his cause. I blame his parents.

[Rum]

Hi jinx! Our Boris is going to suspend Parliament so our elected reps can’t debate and potentially scupper his version of Brexit.

I would and should feel outraged, except for the fact that Parliament didn’t manage to come to any agreement in three years and they ain’t going to in a few short weeks now either.

Government asks Queen to suspend Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

[JimC]

Can the Queen tell him to get stuffed?

[Strontium Dog]

Only if she wants to trigger a constitutional crisis. Er, or a bigger one than we already have, at least.

[Brian Peacock]

Hi jinx! Our Boris is going to suspend Parliament so our elected reps can’t debate and potentially scupper his version of Brexit.

I would and should feel outraged, except for the fact that Parliament didn’t manage to come to any agreement in three years and they ain’t going to in a few short weeks now either.

Government asks Queen to suspend Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49493632

It's the principle though right. We had a vote to 'take back control' of British sovereignty. In the UK that sovereignty, the power to decide and implement, resides with Parliament not with the executive. Boris has just demonstrated that if the executive don't have their way then the head of the executive can use their prerogatory powers - the differed powers exercised on behalf of the Monarch: the absolute power of a monarch in the hands of an elected representative - to functionally cede Parliament's powers and role to the executive.

The argument will be that there's nothing constitutionally illegal about this - probably with some reference to the war and the Battle of Britain etc. But while that might be the case constitutioinally, and in that provide yet another argument for a formal written constitution, the effect is to communicate that Parliament, the people you and I elect to represent our interests, is subordinate to the will of the executive - and that is only to bring out in the open something successive governments have assumed privately for the last 50 years or more.

This is a land grab, plain and simple.

[Brian Peacock]

A petition has gained 80,000+ signatures in the last hour and a bit: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157

[rainbow]

Can the Queen tell him to get stuffed?

Can't she just order that he be stuffed?

[Brian Peacock]

A petition has gained 80,000+ signatures in the last hour and a bit: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157

151,449 sigs. 70,000+ in the last hour.

[Brian Peacock]

The Boris is on the radio at the moment saying that it's just a coincidence that Brexit day falls so close to the Queen's speech, and Parliament is always suspended before the Queen's speech.

[rainbow]

The Boris is on the radio at the moment saying that it's just a coincidence that Brexit day falls so close to the Queen's speech, and Parliament is always suspended before the Queen's speech.

Idi Amin could've come up with a better excuse.

[Brian Peacock]

Amin, or Amout I guess.

[Brian Peacock]

Twenty five bishops signed the letter warning of the “potential cost of a no-deal Brexit to those least resilient to economic shocks”.

“The sovereignty of Parliament is not just an empty term, it is based on institutions to be honoured and respected: our democracy is endangered by cavalier disregard for these,” they said.