I’m on holiday in the northeast, on the road into Newcastle upon Tyne someone has sprayed “Traitor May” and “Vote Stolen” on a couple of road signs. I guess there’s a few disgruntled Brexiteers around here.
---------- Post added at 21:17 ---------- Previous post was at 21:14 ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh
This has a good explanation of why it’s unlikely to happen.
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/201...mpression=true
---------- Post added at 17:01 ---------- Previous post was at 16:54 ----------
Erskine May makes reference to no fewer than 12 such rulings up to the year 1920, so whilst it was set in 1604 (as were a lot of Parliament’s rules), it’s been used since then.
Absence of Speaker intervention since 1920 is attributable not to the discontinuation of the convention but to general compliance with it. |
I’m being ever so slightly tongue in cheek.
As Her Maj always follows convention, were the government be minded to try to get her to withhold assent, they would do so by asking the Palace, “if the Prime Minister were to request this, what would Her Majesty be minded to do?” - to which the answer would be, “Her Majesty would be minded to tell you where to get off,” and the result would be that no such request was made and neither the convention of parliament’s right to make law nor the convention of Minsterial advice would be broken.