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Old 18-03-2019, 18:10   #8806
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Re: Brexit

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Is Bercow trying to frustrate brexit ?
Have you only just noticed?

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Think Bercow is off her Xmas card list....
He's most likely off the honours list as well, and if so will be the first speaker in generations not to automatically get a peerage upon retirement.
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I do enjoy a good constitutional crisis.
Why have we been at odds from time to time?!!
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Old 18-03-2019, 18:12   #8808
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ERG seem happy.
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ERG seem happy.
Their calculation is that the EU won't grant an extension unless there's some prospect of a deal emerging that parliament will back. Any further signs of intransigence in parliament feeds into that view. They may also be calculating that there is a point at which Teresa May will go for No Deal in preference to a drawn out process that sooner or later is going to end in either a referendum, or a general election, or both.

I'm not certain they're thinking straight, but I'm by no means certain anybody is. Bercow, for all his supposed impartiality, clearly thinks that he's assisting the EU in granting a long extension in order to allow a totally different, softer, Brexit to be negotiated. He's dispensed with convention often enough over the last month, it simply isn't credible for him to start using it as an excuse for blocking Government business now, especially on an issue as important as this.
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No, that's the ERG.
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Have you only just noticed?

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He's most likely off the honours list as well, and if so will be the first speaker in generations not to automatically get a peerage upon retirement.
How the hell is he allowed to do this?
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Their calculation is that the EU won't grant an extension unless there's some prospect of a deal emerging that parliament will back. Any further signs of intransigence in parliament feeds into that view. They may also be calculating that there is a point at which Teresa May will go for No Deal in preference to a drawn out process that sooner or later is going to end in either a referendum, or a general election, or both.

I'm not certain they're thinking straight, but I'm by no means certain anybody is. Bercow, for all his supposed impartiality, clearly thinks that he's assisting the EU in granting a long extension in order to allow a totally different, softer, Brexit to be negotiated. He's dispensed with convention often enough over the last month, it simply isn't credible for him to start using it as an excuse for blocking Government business now, especially on an issue as important as this.
It wouldn't be the first time they've miscalculated..Question is what does May do now.
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How the hell is he allowed to do this?
Because he’s following the rules...


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quoting Erskine May, the parliamentary rulebook, he said "what the government cannot legitimately do is resubmit to the House the same proposition - or substantially the same proposition - as that of last week, which was rejected by 149 votes".

This convention, he added, was "necessary to ensure the sensible use of the House's time and the proper respect for the decisions it takes"
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How would the EU do that, then - mind-reading?
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Old 18-03-2019, 18:26   #8814
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To be honest I think he is on firmer ground in denying the government the ability to keep having MPs vote on the bill but as Chris has said it's hardly as if he has stuck with convention throughout this process.
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How the hell is he allowed to do this?
The Speaker of the House of Commons is a bloody powerful individual, it's just that circumstances are rarely so dire as to give the one who holds the office the opportunity to make maximum mischief. Much of what he can do rests on convention rather than statute but the problem there is that just about everything the Commons does is based on convention, and the Speaker is the final arbiter of how convention applies. There is no way to appeal any decision he makes. So if you are saddled with a Speaker who is prepared to pick and choose which conventions he will uphold, there's very little that can be done, short of having Her Maj send him to the Tower to relieve his shoulders of the burden of supporting his enormous head.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47614074

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How would the EU do that, then - mind-reading?
Only when it suits him, the rest of the time he's ignoring them and doing his own thing.
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The Speaker of the House of Commons is a bloody powerful individual, it's just that circumstances are rarely so dire as to give the one who holds the office the opportunity to make maximum mischief. Much of what he can do rests on convention rather than statute but the problem there is that just about everything the Commons does is based on convention, and the Speaker is the final arbiter of how convention applies. There is no way to appeal any decision he makes. So if you are saddled with a Speaker who is prepared to pick and choose which conventions he will uphold, there's very little that can be done, short of having Her Maj send him to the Tower to relieve his shoulders of the burden of supporting his enormous head.
Well they can vote to unseat him can't they? It's just the Government know they'll lose the vote since the rest of the Parliament is loving it.
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The Speaker of the House of Commons is a bloody powerful individual, it's just that circumstances are rarely so dire as to give the one who holds the office the opportunity to make maximum mischief. Much of what he can do rests on convention rather than statute but the problem there is that just about everything the Commons does is based on convention, and the Speaker is the final arbiter of how convention applies. There is no way to appeal any decision he makes. So if you are saddled with a Speaker who is prepared to pick and choose which conventions he will uphold, there's very little that can be done, short of having Her Maj send him to the Tower to relieve his shoulders of the burden of supporting his enormous head.
Let's hope that she does just that
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Re: Brexit

Yes, the weakness of May's government is ultimately what has allowed Bercow to slip his leash. Their only power over him is to deny him a peerage, and I won't be surprised if he's been quietly warned about that already. But if he has been so warned, it doesn't seem to have worked.
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Yes, the weakness of May's government is ultimately what has allowed Bercow to slip his leash. Their only power over him is to deny him a peerage, and I won't be surprised if he's been quietly warned about that already. But if he has been so warned, it doesn't seem to have worked.
Maybe there's some 400 year old law that can be used to finish him off?
I just can't believe he's playing these games at such an important time in the country's history.
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