one out all out: a brexit from the modern world and every one of its problems please (we're all gonna die lol)

For our American viewers right now it feels a bit like me saying "surely youse have a political mechanism for removing somebody clearly unfit to do the job?"

if theresa may loses the confidence vote, she should have to go on that belle & sebastian implication weekender cruise

But she mightn't even be into REDACTED year-old girls

Lord Hailsham gave up his peerage to try for leadership of the Tory Party and, thereafter, PM?

I think SV is correct

Nothing in the unwritten consitution says that a member of the government has to be either an MP or a member of the House of Lords (the Solicitor General for Scotland is neither but is a member of the government), and by extension nor does the Prime Minister. All s/he has to be is in a postion to command a majority in the House of Commons otherwise s/he could not run an administration. Sir Alec Douglas-Home was Prime Minister whilst still Earl of Home and member of the House of Lords. He renounced his title and became plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home so that he could stand for election to the Commons as described above. He remained Prime Minster even though he had left the Lords and had not yet been elected to the Commons. The leader of any party in the positon described by the questions would be expected to fight a very quick and easy by election.

(that's from notes and queries)

Altho let's be real the messiah isn't waiting In the House of Lords

Well, if Apprentice hosts are seen to be on trend...

I think (thought?) that it was generally considered that a PM would have to be an MP nowadays. Rather than a Lord, that is.

(ah, x-posts)

yes i think hogg and hume followed the benn route bcz they believed the median 60 voter was a thrusting white-hot technological modernist who disdained earls and viscounts and such

reminder that hilary b's brother stephen is still on-track to enter the HoL via the *hereditary* route :D

"it is generally considered" is not a heuristic i wd put weight on right now

I think it is merely one of those 20th century conventions that the PM has to sit in the commons. Like the rest of the constitution; I’m not sure it’s written down anywhere.

Whereas 50 odd years later Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the favourites to be leader of Conservative Party. Yes, we've come a long way.

... actually he isn't any more. I think.

I feel certain May will somehow last longer than Brown as PM. So, like, until April.

there isn't really a clear fav for next Tory leader it's BoJo, Gove, Raab, + Javid all co favs, what fucking utopias we can dream of! 25/1 Mogg.

Hunt as well, of course. aka Mr totally fucking useless but somehow a big beast amongst minnows!

Pro tip: it's not BoJo

(prays for BoJo)

In other news, Boris Johnson has lost a stone

Pity. I heard they were both rather small and now he's gone and lost one.

They're all terrible and about as electorally appealing as May.

it's just always going to be theresa may isn't it, like narnia

she'll sacrifice bojo on a stone table in front of the toadstool people and then it's winter forever

toadstool people = trump obv

jesus my brain is poisoned wtf

Raab is a male May, he's a cyborg who crumbles under the mildest of questioning.

I support this crypto-Christian human sacrifice

I support this Christian crypto-human sacrifice

"it is generally considered" is not a heuristic i wd put weight on right now

Tom Watson (Labour deputy who has lost 100 pounds since his election) congratulated Boris Johnson on his weight loss and added ‘it’s much easier to lose weight when you’re not having your cake and eating it too!’

Kinda want to post Violet Beauregarde "I Want It Now" but uh

Javid (autocorrect to Havoc) is surely favourite favourite, tho it doesn’t make any difference does it? Brexit still impossible to pass. I guess a committed no dealer could run the clock down?

All in the EU's hands "now"

Dominic Grieve suddenly my dark horse-lizard

LOL Sajid Javid. Hunt or Blobby.

'Hunt Blobby' OTM

TIME IS A FAT CORCLE AND BLOBY HAS FINALY COME TO COLLECT BLOBYS DUES

— Mr. Blobby (@WorstBlobby) December 11, 2018

he speaks for the people

The only Tory that isn’t foul of Windrush is Jo Johnson (because: his wife) but if he went for it, imagine the tantrums in Britain’s Most Entitled Family.

He's one of Chuka's Remoaner Crew tho?

He'd probably also give Toby Young a peerage.

I know you know this suzy but I just want to make an Albert Speer joke at this point

Go for it NV, birthday boy privileges etc

Mordaunt?

Rumours that May wants to prorogue parliament early, may not, then, be exaggerated

,#coup

— MalSimonLibertéAmitiéSolidarité (@opheliasbrother) December 11, 2018

fuck sorry, was meant to be this (that's the reply):

It is the 330th anniversary of James II tossing the Great Seal into the Thames, without which he believed no Act of Parliament could be validated, an example of a British political leader under attack attempting to delay the inevitable by stalling the political process. pic.twitter.com/lzA6IAYsCx

— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) December 11, 2018

how'd it end for him

parliament hired william of orange to be the next monarch on v strict conditions of not dicking parliament around, and WoO had a new seal made from the same mould as the old one

james lived in exile in france for another 13 years (i had to look that bit up tho)

i guess he didn't get his head cut off like his dad tho so maybe he felt this did the job

rather unsporting of him to not go willingly to the block imo