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We have been discussing the Israel/Hamas/Gaza situation through and through for the past months. Now that something new has happened, there is a topic on this new event and it is appropriate to discuss this. |
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*by Statutory Instrument, with no Parliamentary Scrutiny |
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I’m only positing what would the news headlines have been had Hoyle done his job correctly and (in all likelihood) the SNP motion failed. It’d have been how many MPs - specifically Labour MPs - backed it. Some estimates had the number of potential Labour backers at 90. It’d have been how much authority does Starmer have over his party. Is his fence sitting tenable? Etc. The Speaker handed out a big get out of jail free card, at the expense of the SNP and due process. |
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---------- Post added at 13:14 ---------- Previous post was at 13:03 ---------- The Speaker has overstepped the mark and even though there's a mixture of faux outrage and genuine outrage among the MPs, the public must be wondering how hew can retain his impartiality when so blatantly having favoured Labour. It's a pity. On my theme, the baying mob outside Parliament, the genocidal message beamed onto Big Ben, the lame police, they are a sign of another culture attacking and gradually destroying our democracy. The Speaker should have focused on that - inhibition of free expression in Parliament. |
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Opposition day is rarely about the opposition motion getting carried. Motions presented by minorities are by their nature unlikely to succeed. But that’s not the point of them. They are there to give voice to smaller parties and allow them to choose their topic, state their case and expose what they see as weaknesses in the positions of the other parties. They can do this effectively whether or not they win a vote at the end of it.
The conventions are there to protect that process as a whole and Lindsay Hoyle’s failure to trust processes that are bigger than him has been his undoing. His protestations of good intent don’t really stack up against his refusal to take advice, his refusal to ensure his clerks closely monitored events and advise the deputy speaker as she presided, and his inexcusable failure to be in the chamber while the whole debacle unfolded. If this had been a momentary brain fart then there were multiple opportunities during the afternoon to change course but he seems to have decided he was bigger than events and wouldn’t be told. The risk that he will do so again when the chips are down rightly causes some MPs to lose confidence in him. I think he has to go, and within a week he probably will. |
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100% what Chris just said.
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Regardless, I think I need another Gin |
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The Speaker will survive , regardless of whether he has the job or not, and still be on quite a good salary too.
Meanwhile back in Gaza, innocent people continue to die. However if political points can be scored in blighty , who cares? |
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Three children murdered the other day, but yes, everyone would rather argue about politics. :( |
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The Speaker bowed to the baying mob, imo. |
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Any suggestions of threats to safety came much, much later. There was no indication in his first statement, nor in correspondence from the clerk to indicate he had raised it with them. He’s made a mess of it and blamed brown people. A tried and tested trope for the British establishment to deploy. |
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The more I think about it he will try to stumble into the next election and Sir Keir hands him a peerage for a job well done.
Grubby. |
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