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If BoJo got re-elected would the 90 day suspension apply? – politicalbetting.com
If BoJo got re-elected would the 90 day suspension apply? – politicalbetting.com
I am sure that there is a very simple answer to this but in the very unlikely event of Johnson seeking to become an MP again I wonder whether the 90 day suspension he received would still be valid? As we all know he managed to avoid the action last time by resigning straight away.
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He could just go and write DM columns and go on hols for three months. The neighbouring MPs would do the work.
Rishi = FAIL
However, I'd argue that the suspension is known about by the voters. If they vote him in, in spite of the suspension, I'd argue it should not be served.
But he ain't getting back in. He's done. Dusted. Labour are going to form the next government and Johnson will be irrelevant.
I've asked the following question many times, but never get an answer. Who do PB Tories actually want to lead the party?
For now Sunak, and post the election Penny Mordaunt possibly but would need to see how many conservative mps are available
And for the record Sunak should have voted for the privileges committee rather than abstain under the pretext he was meeting Sweden's PM, and in PR terms it was the wrong decision
So far as I can see the only self-certified authentic Tory in the PB village is firmly pro-Johnson. Edit: not because Mr J is any good at being PM; that is not even part of the equation in question; but simply because he will supposedly win elections, which is all that counts to keep the Tories in their Divine Right of Rule over the UK.
How does voting by proxy work, since for some reason it was impossible for the Prime Minister?
Meeting the Swedish PM is a very poor excuse for not voting.
I doubt she is the membership choice but as I said the next leader will only become obvious post GE 24
Even Starmer made it after dashing back from Scotland
Also a few shy Johnson diehards on here who are biding their time.
A big enough beast to be plausible.
Distant enough from the heart of government to be a step away from the clustershambles.
Brexitty, so tolerable to the party, but not mad with it.
Enough panache to carry the role off, because the panache of the leader might be all the Conservatives have for a while.
Not sure she's up to being PM, but that probably doesn't matter. It wasn't meant to matter for Starmer. (Though in his case, I reckon he'll be a perfectly adequate PM, just poor at competitive elections.) Her real job will be to create a space where a future Conservative PM might emerge.
The HoC is its own court and cannot be challenged. So if Boris got reelected he would be MP once sworn in, until he wasn't. Until swearing in there isn't an HoC to act. Once the HoC sits it is beyond doubt the question will be raised as a point of order. The Speaker would have to suggest and direct the next steps.
Personally I think the answer would be No, but if, say, a Labour dominated HoC in 2024 wanted to say Yes, they could procedurally manage it (using the same committee as now), and it could not be challenged.
On which, have you seen this? 87.5% inflation for Bourbon biscuits, appropriately enough.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12202445/Taking-biscuit-Price-treats-soars-supermarket.html
Study of the Bradlaugh case might produce some sort of precedent, but it needs thought.
Make him live in central Kyiv.
After all Churchill lived in London during the blitz
In terms of opposition leaders who did this well, you might point to Hague and his opposition to Britain's membership of the Euro. Had he been in favour (and able to carry most of his party with him) then it would have left Labour opponents of Euro membership much more isolated.
Compare and contrast with an opposition leader who wasn't effective in this way - Corbyn. He was entirely unable to provide any clear policy on Brexit, and so became completely irrelevant to that major political debate, which came to be fought out in the media entirely as an internal Conservative party psychodrama.
On topic, the Privileges Committee report (and Commons vote on it) simply says they WOULD HAVE recommended suspension for 90 days had Johnson still been an MP (and, in voting for it, MPs agreed that). But the Commons has not, in fact, voted for a suspended sentence of some kind that kicks in if he is re-elected at some later date.
That is just like a pub banning a customer who causes a brawl each night after six pints, and then other customers complaining that the place has lost its character.
Johnson is a very bad man.
If you are after boorish oafs, Lee Anderson remains available.
Anyone daft enough to re-elect him deserves all they get, and it's not the business of Parliament to interfere with that.
Airbus secures biggest plane order in the history of commercial aviation
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64166469
As Meat Loaf didn't say '0 out of 5 ain't good'.
He is probably sufficiently lazy not to bother to checking the implications until the jump door is open.
The police certainly seem stuck there - though a judge criticising the "shocking" way the police treated a female police officer who blew the whistle on a colleague who has been convicted of 6 rapes of a colleague and 2 rapes of a 16 year old girl - is a welcome change: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/metropolitan-police-ignored-officers-complaint-about-rapist-colleague-bz7265nzq.
Then there is the NCA which has been found by a police watchdog to tolerate predatory sexual behaviour by its staff - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-predators-tolerated-at-national-crime-agency-z3c25bq7j - problems known to the leadership with nothing done. Apparently being there is like going into "an old fashioned CID office". The usual pointless apology has been offered.
Not to be outdone, the Scouts are currently carrying out an investigation into claims they silenced women who made allegations of sexual abuse. Millions have been paid out to victims but it is said that their safeguarding policies are still inadequate.
I am a fan of the dictum 'Anyone who can't explain something successfully in layman's terms either doesn’t understand it or doesn’t want you to.'. This inflation is not typical; it's caused by radical increases in energy costs, which are reflected in every price rise - food increases due to the power used in production, hospitality due to the increase in heating and lighting, and food etc. etc. Can you explain in layman's terms how the usual approach to attacking inflation can possibly work here? Do you think the global gas price is going to be adjusted down because they realise that British consumers aren't putting their heating on as much? Perhaps you can explain.
Remember the COVID pledges for testing kit delivery. If you recall by the end of the delivery window, so long as the envelope had a stamp on it and was resting in Boris' out-tray it was considered to have been "delivered".
So, for a random example, the MoD has a minister of problems, say an ex army chap who says “our kit is crap, too expensive and slow to deliver and we have too few troops.” And the minister of solutions who used to run a big business says “this is how we change supply lines and recruitment.”
For example, in education it is seven years since a teacher was leading OFSTED* and 11 years since anyone with an educational background was permanent secretary at the DfE (and that was a one-off). Instead, we have a lot of not very bright civil servants with rubbish degrees and boundless arrogance coming up with solutions that won't work to problems they don't really understand.
If the minimum age of entry to the Civil Service was 40 and a requirement was made that you must have at least five years' experience in a related field I think you would see some improvement.
*It is worth noting that one of the major problems with OFSTED is that despite its name it has a very wide remit far beyond education which leads to muddle and inexpert inspections - for me, a low point was when a school I was in was inspected for educational quality by somebody who was an expert in paediatric hospitals. He was nice enough and clearly very knowledgeable in his own field, but he clearly had no clue what he was looking at. That in itself means any head of it will have limits to understanding the role, although Spielman has managed to be spectacularly ignorant of all of them.
Has Boris Johnson destroyed parliamentary precedent in one surprise move, doubtless earning admiration from those such as Dominic Cummings and Stephen Bannon?
Setting the electorate against the Commons ("We're sending him to you"..."We don't want him"..."What are you, a private members' club?") would make for nice theatre but isn't going to happen.
Personally I'd have cancelled his post-Prime Ministerial benefits - on the basis that he has already proved he will not respect the rules by ignoring the Ministerial Code in accepting jobs without being authorised - and his pension as well, on the same basis as policemen being able losing theirs when they bring the service into disrepute.
Ben
IDS
Adam Holloway
David Tredinnick
David Davis
Mark Francois
I can't think of a more qualified group of people to be in charge and making decisions.
The puff piece for Penny Mordaunt in the Times today suggests that if she holds her own seat, she is in with a good shout. However, that is a pretty big "if".
The big deal for the post defeat Tories will be "Character", hence the interesting positioning of Mordaunt and Ellwood.
I do actually expect prices to recover in the medium term but that’s little comfort to anyone who is remortgaging or selling in that period.
We’ll also likely have a GE campaign or be ramping up for one. So make of that what you will. I am starting to feel a bit more confident of a Labour majority.
Simply on a point of principle, I'd also say that there is a world of difference between Boris Johnson and Wayne Couzens. I am very far from being a Johnson fan but there's a need to have some sense of proportion.
Most of all, she is a confident and capable speaker in Parliament, with a bit of humour that will contrast well with the wooden Starmer.
I don't think a great brain or potential PM, but a real threat as LOTO.
Funny things will have happened to inflation this cycle too due to the particular behavioural effects of covid, with pent up demand and labour shortages but balanced by the omicron bed wetting which dampened behaviours.
In any case, add 17 months to when the BoE first started to really try and address inflation. I don’t personally start the clock until Aug 2022, the first 50bps raise which took rates to only 1.75%.
So prediction time, core inflation will peak +- a couple of months around Jan 2024 and be back in range sometime Q2. The panic raises we are now seeing will only serve to tank the economy by mid 2024 and makes this unnecessarily unpleasant. The BoE have won the election for Starmer.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
Let's also note the other consequence of this. Let's assume my mortgage payment goes up by £300 - or a lot more. That is cash I am no longer spending in the wider economy. Products I am not buying. Money needs to circulate to support jobs, so a big cut in disposable income for enough people, and even more businesses will have to make people redundant or fail completely.
Furlough payments now look to have been too generous and the stamp duty cut irresponsible.
Yesterday I will stop resignation honours lists
Today labour will appoint over 100 peers as we do not have the expertise in government on our own benches
If you look at the reason it is reasonable, Labour only has 174 peers, making up just 22% of the total.
Crossbenchers have 183 peers and the Tories have 263 peers.
This is to stop the Tories denying the will of the people after the next election.
You should spend some time reading up on the People's Budget of 1909/10.
At the moment he was appointed to that position he ceased to be an MP.
Acquiescing to public sector pay demands might help the NHS - it certainly won't help inflation.
Stopping new north sea oil licenses - in the long run that'll negatively affect our balance of payments and is probably a bit inflationary..
This order takes the total number of IndiGo aircraft to 1,330 Airbus so the total order is for 2,660 wings which is an enormous boost to North Wales's and Cheshire's economies
Or, to take another metaphor, a John the Baptist to someone else's Jesus. I don't think she would be likely to win in 2028/9, but she
definitely opens the door for 2033.
Probably requires an MP stitchup for the leadership election to come, though.
It would have been ironic if 500 Liberal peers had been created, giving them an inbuilt majority in the Lords in the 1920s even as their representation in the Commons dwindled to nothing...