[Politics] Brexit

[hans kraay fan club]

Is he ? My understanding is that the speaker is there to uphold process and procedure - to be neutral so not support MPs or government but to ensure everything is done by the rulebook. He seems to have stretched his role on this occassion.

Of course he is there to 'support MPs' ffs!

Its not for him to 'support' any certain group of MPs, but absolutely to ensure that the will of parliament is allowed to be known / heard. All he's done here is about process - he's stopped the government (in effect a minority group of MPs) from being allowed to play delaying games - forcing through a vote, to enable parliament to have their say. As [MENTION=13]CHAPPERS[/MENTION] has pointed out, he's merely enabled a vote, not influenced the outcome of one.

 

[A1X]

Is he ? My understanding is that the speaker is there to uphold process and procedure - to be neutral so not support MPs or government but to ensure everything is done by the rulebook. He seems to have stretched his role on this occassion.

The Government is formed of MPs and he has the same responsibility to all of them. Unfortunately the UK has no written constitution so the rules are vague at best, however there is also a checks and balances role to be considered and the will of Parliament has a right to be heard.

 

[pb21]

Is he ? My understanding is that the speaker is there to uphold process and procedure - to be neutral so not support MPs or government but to ensure everything is done by the rulebook. He seems to have stretched his role on this occassion.

Is that not a different way of saying the same the same thing?

By holding process and procedure to the rulebook they represent the interest of all MPs?

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Is he ? My understanding is that the speaker is there to uphold process and procedure - to be neutral so not support MPs or government but to ensure everything is done by the rulebook. He seems to have stretched his role on this occassion.

The stickers on his car might suggest he isn't as impartially minded as many would hope ....

 

[neilbard]

The Government is formed of MPs and he has the same responsibility to all of them. Unfortunately the UK has no written constitution so the rules are vague at best, however there is also a checks and balances role to be considered and the will of Parliament has a right to be heard.

The will of the people had a right to be heard, and we all know how that turned out.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The stickers on his car might suggest he isn't as impartially minded as many would hope ....

Not sure what your point is?

He is duty bound to act with impartiality in the house.

He doesn't have to BE impartial. He is allowed an opinion as much as anyone else.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

[MENTION=1416]Ernest[/MENTION] predicting the end of May/the Tories since the beginning of time ...

Do you think after the Tories beat labour again he will carry on the same?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Bit snowflaky isn't it? Moaning about a sticker on his wife's motor.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Why would anyone support further delays ?

Surely even the most fervent Brexiteer wants to find out what it was they voted for 2 and a half years ago

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

What good is giving her only three days? She's ****ed, but no one else in the Tories wants this cluster **** and Labour still wouldn't be able to muster up enough support to govern the UK with a majority. So we're all ****ed..

It wouldn’t have been three days if she hadn’t delayed the vote, MPs on both sides of the house are sick of her delaying and using the clock to blackmail them into a vote to support her.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Why would anyone support further delays ?

Surely even the most fervent Brexiteer wants to find out what it was they voted for 2 and a half years ago

Because they are shitting themselves?

 

[ManOfSussex]

Not sure what your point is?

He is duty bound to act with impartiality in the house.

He doesn't have to BE impartial. He is allowed an opinion as much as anyone else.

Plus it's his wife's car as he clarified in parliament earlier when asked about it again by the straw clutching Adam Holloway MP. (The photo is from last year anyway and was covered in The Mail, Telegraph and Guido Fawkes oddball's site etc.)

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Bit snowflaky isn't it? Moaning about a sticker on his wife's motor.

When is a snowflake not a snowflake?

When it’s a gammon.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The stickers on his car might suggest he isn't as impartially minded as many would hope ....

It's his wife's car, as he explained.

She is entitled to her own opinion.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We want sovereignty (but only when we agree with it)

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[Mellotron]

Bit snowflaky isn't it? Moaning about a sticker on his wife's motor.

They piss and moan about literally everything. Most sensitive bunch you ever did meet.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

We want sovereignty (but only when we agree with it)

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not one of these whining bitches in parliament offers any modicum of vision at all as to what they DO want, only what they DON'T want.

Shameful bunch of self-serving intellectually-challenged wankers.

 

[ManOfSussex]

the most fervent Brexiteer

Funny how Footy Genius rocked on up back on this thread after today's Grieve amendment. He pulled off that Times editorial from nearly 3 years ago faster than the fastest algorithm by any FSB programmer in Moscow too.

It's almost as if someone sent him into bat, or rather brought him on for some spin to tie down an end.

 

[neilbard]

Not one of these whining bitches in parliament offers any modicum of vision at all as to what they DO want, only what they DON'T want.

Shameful bunch of self-serving intellectually-challenged wankers.

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