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**Chris** · 03-09-2019, 22:52

The absurd dog’s breakfast that is the Fixed Term Parliament Act has got to go. In any other time, a defeat like this (or the sudden loss of a working majority) would rightly have been construed as a confidence issue and any previous PM would have been perfectly correct to call an immediate election. Amidst all the breathless claims about the death of democracy, the democrats seem to have forgotten that just about the oldest convention of them all is that parliament lets the government govern. It does not attempt to control the normal process of government via statute and it does not attempt to keep a government in place that can no longer function.

03-09-2019, 22:52	#1754
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,129	Re: PM Boris forms a government The absurd dog’s breakfast that is the Fixed Term Parliament Act has got to go. In any other time, a defeat like this (or the sudden loss of a working majority) would rightly have been construed as a confidence issue and any previous PM would have been perfectly correct to call an immediate election. Amidst all the breathless claims about the death of democracy, the democrats seem to have forgotten that just about the oldest convention of them all is that parliament lets the government govern. It does not attempt to control the normal process of government via statute and it does not attempt to keep a government in place that can no longer function.