The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Can we have an AV one :-)
You're getting two AV threads next week.
Ambassador, you are really spoiling us...
I might even throw in a couple of Scottish Independence threads as well.
My No 1 prediction for Brexit back in June last year was that people who voted to Leave because they don't like the EU very much and wanted to get shot of it would be very disappointed to find that the EU will feature much more in our lives outside than in and we would never be more beholden to the EU than when we leave.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Can we have an AV one :-)
You're getting two AV threads next week.
Ambassador, you are really spoiling us...
I might even throw in a couple of Scottish Independence threads as well.
ScottP will explode...Are you ready for half of twitter to be linked in a single thread?
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
I have been thinking about that, if Trump handles it badly, what would be the outcome of that, could he flip Florida and Georgia back to the Dems?
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
I have been thinking about that, if Trump handles it badly, what would be the outcome of that, could he flip Florida and Georgia back to the Dems?
Trump got praise from all sides for his handling of Harvey, so he should do fine with Irma.
The only exceptions - predictably - were CNN and MsNBC who said he didn't bring 'empathy'. The folks don't need empathy, they need money.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
I have been thinking about that, if Trump handles it badly, what would be the outcome of that, could he flip Florida and Georgia back to the Dems?
Perhaps he could build a sea wall and the hurricane will pay for it?
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Can we have an AV one :-)
You're getting two AV threads next week.
Ambassador, you are really spoiling us...
I might even throw in a couple of Scottish Independence threads as well.
With the SNP on the backfoot less interesting, JRM's tip of Tom Tugendhat or even the Kiwi election (NP having already covered the German election the next day) would be more interesting
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Can we have an AV one :-)
You're getting two AV threads next week.
Ambassador, you are really spoiling us...
I might even throw in a couple of Scottish Independence threads as well.
Actually something significant in Scotland in the last couple of days. Nicola Sturgeon has realised a decade of "Masterful Inactivity" can look a lot like drift. She has now decided to adopt some policies. (and has done so in a somewhat clever way for a minority government of picking a policy that would please each of the other parties).
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
I have been thinking about that, if Trump handles it badly, what would be the outcome of that, could he flip Florida and Georgia back to the Dems?
Trump got praise from all sides for his handling of Harvey, so he should do fine with Irma.
The only exceptions - predictably - were CNN and MsNBC who said he didn't bring 'empathy'. The folks don't need empathy, they need money.
And most of the people on the ground trying to help with the situation hate nothing more than to waste a couple of precious days having to deal with a VVIP and his 747 full of entourage.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Can we have an AV one :-)
You're getting two AV threads next week.
Ambassador, you are really spoiling us...
I might even throw in a couple of Scottish Independence threads as well.
My No 1 prediction for Brexit back in June last year was that people who voted to Leave because they don't like the EU very much and wanted to get shot of it would be very disappointed to find that the EU will feature much more in our lives outside than in and we would never be more beholden to the EU than when we leave.
So, joining the EU is like going to live in Royston Vazey.?
"The wrath of a hurricane can ruin delicate pieces of liquid history," Gungle said. "Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina and Sandy ruined tens of millions of dollars worth of fine wine."
My No 1 prediction for Brexit back in June last year was that people who voted to Leave because they don't like the EU very much and wanted to get shot of it would be very disappointed to find that the EU will feature much more in our lives outside than in and we would never be more beholden to the EU than when we leave.
So, joining the EU is like going to live in Royston Vazey.?
Brexit is more like the relationship of Steptoe and Son. Dreams of something better dashed by cruel reality.
England = Zsa-Zsa Gabor Scotland = Husband no 1 Ireland = Husband no 2 India = Husband no 3 ... The EU = Husband no 9
'Gabor died at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,[1] on December 18, 2016, less than two months before she would have become a centenarian.[70] She had been on life support for the previous five years'
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
You could do a thread on Hurricane Irma, due to hit Florida this weekend. It's the biggest and most powerful storm on record. Hotels up to Nashville are full with retreating Floridians and coastal Georgians.
I have been thinking about that, if Trump handles it badly, what would be the outcome of that, could he flip Florida and Georgia back to the Dems?
Trump got praise from all sides for his handling of Harvey, so he should do fine with Irma.
The only exceptions - predictably - were CNN and MsNBC who said he didn't bring 'empathy'. The folks don't need empathy, they need money.
Strange how the old 'the most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help' saw disappears in a puff of smoke at these moments.
My No 1 prediction for Brexit back in June last year was that people who voted to Leave because they don't like the EU very much and wanted to get shot of it would be very disappointed to find that the EU will feature much more in our lives outside than in and we would never be more beholden to the EU than when we leave.
So, joining the EU is like going to live in Royston Vazey.?
For some people. That group is kind of self-selecting, but got the say over what happens to the rest of us.
The sad truth is for UK politics Brexit is the only story in town, well that and Mrs May's crapness.
I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
A thread on polling methodology/techniques could be interesting. I was thinking of proposing something but I have not had the time lately.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
How likely is it he becomes PM before 2019?
Collapse of the government is quite possible, extension of the deadline too, or merely an incoming government deciding that precedent allows them to reintroduce the powers.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
In all seriousness, this is a genuine test of how committed to Parliamentary democracy the Conservative party under Theresa May really is. If the Tories vote this through it will demonstrate unequivocally they have no respect for the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. It'll certainly turn me Corbynista!!
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
In all seriousness, this is a genuine test of how committed to Parliamentary democracy the Conservative party under Theresa May really is. If the Tories vote this through it will demonstrate unequivocally they have no respect for the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. It'll certainly turn me Corbynista!!
Why is it not respecting the will of the people if Labour insist on holding up the Brexit the people voted for? The committees will still scrutinise the repeal process
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
In all seriousness, this is a genuine test of how committed to Parliamentary democracy the Conservative party under Theresa May really is. If the Tories vote this through it will demonstrate unequivocally they have no respect for the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. It'll certainly turn me Corbynista!!
Loonies for Corbyn.
The people voted for Brexit and then for the present Commons. Live with it.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
How likely is it he becomes PM before 2019?
Given the way Mrs May is behaving, quite likely.
I expect more voters support reducing low skilled immigration for the foreseeable future than could care less about the precise composition of standing and select committees
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
I am sure that the Tories will be just as supportive when Jezza has the same power over these comittees and executive authority over Henry VIII powers.
How likely is it he becomes PM before 2019?
Given the way Mrs May is behaving, quite likely.
Indeed, it speeds up the triumph of Corbynism no end.
Though actually corbyn would probably use the executive powers wisely. He has a natural sympathy for grass roots democracy, that May simply cannot tolerate.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
A UK Parliament where the largest party in Northern Ireland have backed the Tories anyway
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
In all seriousness, this is a genuine test of how committed to Parliamentary democracy the Conservative party under Theresa May really is. If the Tories vote this through it will demonstrate unequivocally they have no respect for the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. It'll certainly turn me Corbynista!!
Loonies for Corbyn.
The people voted for Brexit and then for the present Commons. Live with it.
Another in the anti-democrat column. You may not have noticed, but the people chose not to give any party a majority in the Commons.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
A UK Parliament where the largest party in Northern Ireland have backed the Tories anyway
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
A UK Parliament where the largest party in Northern Ireland have backed the Tories anyway
Exactly. There is a TORY DUP majority in seats.
Indeed and the DUP backed Brexit even when the then Tory leader was leading the Remain campaign last June
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
I think I liked Nick P's suggestion of a cross-party committee to oversee the use of any executive power relating to the act until the powers expire on exit day. I'm not sure there is sufficient time on the Parliamentary calendar for everything tonne done via act.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
No this is hardcore Remainers like you attempting to portray yourself as 'democrats' while yet again pushing to frustrate and undermine the vote of 17 million people for Brexit
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
In all seriousness, this is a genuine test of how committed to Parliamentary democracy the Conservative party under Theresa May really is. If the Tories vote this through it will demonstrate unequivocally they have no respect for the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. It'll certainly turn me Corbynista!!
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
Brexit was expressed in 2016.
And at the 2017 GE leaving the single market too.
Yeah... those voters didn't vote for Labour's current policy (whatever that is).
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
No this is hardcore Remainers like you attempting to portray yourself as 'democrats' while yet again pushing to frustrate and undermine the vote of 17 million people for Brexit
Nope. You do not believe in democracy. The people voted in June. The result was that no party received a majority. The Tory government now seeks to undermine the verdict they delivered. It has nothing to do with me, the EU, Leave or Remain.
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
Brexit was expressed in 2016.
And at the 2017 GE leaving the single market too.
And that has nothing to do with the Tories giving themselves majorities on committees that the will of the people did not deliver to them.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
But you believe in elected dictatorship - who's the hypocrite now?
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
A UK Parliament where the largest party in Northern Ireland have backed the Tories anyway
Exactly. There is a TORY DUP majority in seats.
Indeed and the DUP backed Brexit even when the then Tory leader was leading the Remain campaign last June
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
I'll put you down as an anti-democrat then.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Actually the Tories did get a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales combined just not a majority once you included Northern Ireland, as the EU has indicated today it intends to do a separate Brexit deal with NI anyway so the Tories do have a majority to implement Brexit for the rest of the UK
The anti-democrat is struggling. It's the UK parliament.
Not that the EU seems that bothered about that given there moves for a separate NI deal and of course the Brexit backing DUP won most seats in NI and backed the Tories anyway
It has nothing to do with the EU, I'm afraid. This is a Tory government seeking to undermine the will of the British people as expressed through the ballot box.
No this is hardcore Remainers like you attempting to portray yourself as 'democrats' while yet again pushing to frustrate and undermine the vote of 17 million people for Brexit
Nope. You do not believe in democracy. The people voted in June.
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
Enough to stop this obscenity.
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
But you believe in elected dictatorship - who's the hypocrite now?
You miss the salient part of my plan.
I want to be the country's first Directly Elected Dictator, I will ask the people to give me those powers, then, and only then, will I assert those powers.
Mrs May is usurping power without a mandate to do so, where was this in her manifesto?
Mrs May is not a democrat. And obviously the Tory MPs who proclaim their faith in the will of the people will back her. The hypocrisy is rank and utterly predictable. Party before country every single time.
We're doing this to ensure Parliament is sovereign Leavers have gone curiously quiet.
Is it too much to hope there are some Tories out there who do genuinely believe in respecting the will of the people? Will all of them really be so supine, so anti-democratic as to wave this through?
The people who voted 52% Leave in June 2016 and gave the Tories a majority of the seats in GB in June 2017 you mean?
But this is a United Kingdom Parliament. not a GB Parliament.
A UK Parliament where the largest party in Northern Ireland have backed the Tories anyway
Exactly. There is a TORY DUP majority in seats.
Indeed and the DUP backed Brexit even when the then Tory leader was leading the Remain campaign last June
And MLP could still win in France.
She did win most departements and regions in round 1
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I'm trying to avoid doing many Brexit threads, that's why I've done threads on videos of Donald Trump & urinating prostitutes and a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula being good for Sir Michael Fallon's career.
Le Royame-Uni = Elizabeth Taylor?
https://twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/905808075722039297
Scotland = Husband no 1
Ireland = Husband no 2
India = Husband no 3
...
The EU = Husband no 9
The only exceptions - predictably - were CNN and MsNBC who said he didn't bring 'empathy'. The folks don't need empathy, they need money.
Perhaps he could build a sea wall and the hurricane will pay for it?
EU = profligate gold-digger.
https://twitter.com/foxinsoxuk/status/905891651201245190
"The wrath of a hurricane can ruin delicate pieces of liquid history," Gungle said. "Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina and Sandy ruined tens of millions of dollars worth of fine wine."
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1BI2A8
The AV threads, on the other hand....
And, maybe, the enraging Leavers thing....
L'Union Européenne = Elizabeth Taylor
Le Royaume-Uni = Richard Burton
This is the story of Hennessy, who spent three years at school in London and was detained on his way back to Europe.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-41195589/migrant-crisis-i-feel-like-a-dead-person
Theresa May has been accused of “rigging” Parliament to defy the result of the general election and give Tory MPs majority control over all legislation.
In what Labour called “an unprecedented power grab”, the Government is trying to give itself the power to dominate every bill committee from now until 2022.
A controversial new motion tabled by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom seeks to ensure that Conservatives have a majority on all standing committees that are the powerhouses of all prospective laws.
The Tories lost their majority in the election after Labour’s ‘Corbyn surge’, but the attempted reform would give unprecedented power to a minority government for the first time.
The motion, which has been seen by HuffPost UK but is not formally published until Friday, would mean the PM could control her legislative agenda even without the aid of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
With May already under fire over plans to use the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to give ministers sweeping powers beyond the scrutiny of MPs and peers, the latest move has sparked a furious backlash from Labour.
The motion, tabled by Leadsom on Thursday for a vote next Tuesday, states that Commons rules will be changed so that “where a committee has an odd number of members, the Government shall have a majority”.
And “where a committee has an even number of members, the number of Government and Opposition members shall be equal, but this instruction shall not apply to the nomination of any public bill committee [which hammers out the guts of legislation]”.
The move effectively creates a back-door way around the Committee of Selection, the body that is the traditional way of choosing MPs for each standing and select committee.
It also ensures that the Tories will have a majority to rule on Statutory Instruments included in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and avoid attempts to amend their Brexit plans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-may-rigging-parliament-committee-of-selection-standing-committees_uk_59b1a514e4b0dfaafcf68a04?8bo
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/905373104423276544
Can't see Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, nor Anna Soubry voting for this, so we need only four other Tory MPs to back democracy.
REMAIN 48%
The people voted for Brexit and then for the present Commons. Live with it.
The Tories did not get a majority of seats in June. That's kind of the point.
Though actually corbyn would probably use the executive powers wisely. He has a natural sympathy for grass roots democracy, that May simply cannot tolerate.
And at the 2017 GE leaving the single market too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-monica-poletti/eu-referendum-conservative-voters_b_17924942.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics&-ukBrexit+Briefing+09717
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/905911364375506949
LEAVE 52%
REMAIN 48%
I want to be the country's first Directly Elected Dictator, I will ask the people to give me those powers, then, and only then, will I assert those powers.
Mrs May is usurping power without a mandate to do so, where was this in her manifesto?