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With these words in January Speaker Bercow justified reportedly over-ruling the clerk of the house along with precedent in order to accept an amendment to the business motion from Dominic Grieve. The role, rights and responsibilities of the Speaker are very powerful within the House of Commons as the referee who can enforce the rules of the Commons guided by precedent – but also as shown in January to create and change these rules.
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I'd suggest the first thing that the next speaker needs to be is an MP after the election!
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1168883365656838144
I enjoyed your observation of the escalation of terror both sides have used as Brexit went on. If breaking tradition and rules its daft to expect the other side just to suck it up and not retaliate in kind or move up a notch,
Currently the only rule is there are no rules. We cant run a country that way,
Think he'll do well as a calm, pleasant, down to earth northerner following the grandiose, lofty Speaker Bercow.
JRM as Speaker would fulfil the Banter Heuristic, though not as much as Theresa May being deselected this evening after voting to block No Deal.
Looks as if Boris is reflecting public opinion
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Now now malcolm I know full well where the north is and indeed Scotland very well indeed
You did indeed guess I was being a wag
https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1168885093445898240
Edit: I like Rory Stewart. But his inability to acknowledge this clause in the Hillary Benn Brexit Surrender Treaty is a major failure.
Evidence, if there is any, should start showing in the polls over the next few days
Spot on from Rory, but there is no evidence that the soon to former PM is thinking long term at all. Political horizons are now being measured in hours, not years.
"Following a productive meeting of cross-party MPs this morning, we are united in our opposition to Boris Johnson’s plans for a no deal.
We are confident that the legislative route we have adopted has every chance of being successful, and we are working on ways in which we can prevent Boris Johnson manipulating an election to force a no-deal Brexit.
Labour wants to prevent a no-deal Brexit, and to have a general election, so we can end austerity and invest in our communities. I am confident we can have both, and we’ve been in discussions about a way to achieve this. We will continue to work across parliament towards this goal and will have further meetings to this end in coming days."
And hideously wrong.
Attempting to deselect a huge amount of senior/high profile MPs in one go is banana republic stuff, is he really going to go through with it?
PM fails to quell unrest after meeting with dissident MPs" (£)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/try-and-stop-me-rebelling-philip-hammond-tells-no-10-kbdzj8nwf
It is delusional.
I’m trying hard to think of a way out of this, which doesn’t lead to an embittered country divided in half for a generation. It’s tricky.
Just a guess..
Instead, a good and welcome debut from Philip, which - setting aside the odd piece of hyperbole - ...the divisions over Brexit have increased into a state virtually of all out war... - is not at all unreasonable.
I think it's far from certain that Bercow would lose his seat even if the Tories and/or Brexit party ran a candidate against him, but on the other hand, he might stay on only for a relatively brief time after the election anyway.
A partisan appointment of a new Speaker is an outside possibility, but to what end ? Any government with a decent majority wold have little problem enacting its agenda, so it would be little more than an expression of pique.
My bet would be Hoyle, FWIW.
I don't think he cares about the deselection threats he'll likely get over it.
Polls say most people are expecting an economic hit post Brexit. Its not just about the money,
Essentially de facto Remain for the economy, de jure Brexit for the symbolism.
The £ has regained all its daily losses.
Ironic if the ERG submit letters to the '22 because BoZo wouldn't expel the "moderates"...
And a short delay would allow him time to legislate for a No Deal Brexit if that were his choice - and while utterly unwelcome would be preferable to leaving with no deal on the 31st without any such legislation in place.