"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

lol Lammy blaming because comic relief viewers are down by 600 000 is pure bullshit. Maybe people just don't like smug tax dodgers pretending they give a fuck about 3rd world poverty, or maybe its just nauseating unwatchable shit. But he's definitely not that influential!

Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day earnings fell by £8m this year after criticism from Labour MP David Lammy that the charity fundraising event promotes a “white saviour” complex and a fall in the television audience.

the graun as well!

With terrestrial TV audiences rising all the time i for one am shocked

Lars Løkke Rasmussen is a nobody clinging on to power and I can't wait to - hopefully - be rid of him, but this is a good line: "It is difficult to give people a helping hand if they have both of their hands in their pockets."

lol dk has a real prime minister just like in Borgen, cute

you wouldn't take the piss if you saw the bacon exports numbers and the military industrial complex in the Faroe islands!

It's a real Borg as well

Politic's is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl). pic.twitter.com/ciFgwWDmmL

— Trevor Bastard NVQ Level 2, CEO Grannymugger Media (@GRANNYMUGGER) March 17, 2019

*record scratch* *freeze frame*

Yep. That's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation pic.twitter.com/6F6ws49znv

— Mal Function (@MaelVogue) March 17, 2019

this paul sweeney story is bullshit of the first order

Because he specifically excepted Luciana Berger?

That and the fact it's bullshit of the first order.

lol we're all gonna die a bit later than expected

Minister tells me @theresa_may expects EU to grant nine month Brexit delay. What would that mean for when (or indeed if) we leave the EU? https://t.co/D3YNHfs18l

— Robert Peston (@Peston) March 18, 2019

look on the bright side Bg, when you do die (like Corbyn in that painting) you might get reincarnated as colleen rooney's right breast/alien growing out of body thingy like in Total Recall.

it's long been my goal to live as a kuato tbf

“Public vote” vs “new referendum”. #brexit pic.twitter.com/T9qGHGcSkf

— Andy Maciver (@akmaciver) March 18, 2019

Brains of Britains

BREAKING: Speaker rules out the government bringing back meaningful vote 3 unless the deal has changed. Govt cannot bring same motion twice. Convention dates back to 1604, he says. Big trouble for government.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) March 18, 2019

Lol

hahaha oh fucking snap

whoops

genuinely did not expect that. thought windmill jolyon’s anti-theology argument was sound

"This is a necessary rule to ensure the sensible use of the house’s time, and proper respect for what it decides."

Erskine May, the parliamentary rulebook, says an issue that has been decided in substance cannot be brought back to the Commons.

this is absurd, only a few more votes and we'll have ruled out literally every possible course of action

odds on a GE must be crashing now ?

every single day of british politics has been absurd for a long time now, tbf xp

does bercow’s reasoning apply to some of the amendments which have already been defeated ?

xp sure, it's just more underlining the fact that the british parliamentary system cannot deal with this sort of issue and circs

starting to think brexit might really bring significant constitutional and procedural change to westminster, everyone wants to find a way to circumvent this nonsense

I'm completely baffled at the extent to which seemingly nobody in power seems to know how the British parliament works. As a foreigner, it's mystifying to watch.

this man knows:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D189X97WwAEGbJq.jpg

he's stoked for the madness

he's been knee deep in dusty scrolls.

It's fairly straightforward: we argue a lot then leave EU with no deal in place

xp

ERSKINE MAY IS TRENDING ON TWITTER

Bercow is right.

Ludicrously, the solution is probably to turn Parliament off and turn it on again. If they close and re-open the session, they can vote on it again.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/images/ruritania-map-3.jpg

that parliamentary on-off switch again:
https://cinemagic.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Tales-at-Twilight-The-Sword-in-the-Stone.jpg

deeper magic from before 1604 iirc

id put it through a few rinse cycles after switching it back on again meself

Bercow says MPs could vote to change Commons rule preventing repeat votes on same motion

Alex Burghart, a Conservative, asks if the house can suspend the standing orders preventing a motiong being brought back for a repeat vote.

Bercow says the house is the custodian of its own standing orders, and so the answer i yes.

why turn it off and on again when you can just tinker with the software while it's running

prorogue mahone

Just smash the thing with a hammer and then go out and get a new Parliament.

id put it through a few rinse cycles after switching it back on again meself

Multiple comments about parliament being confusing/archaic - 100% a feature meant to alienate people from politics in this country afaict.

Asked how you get round the Speaker’s ruling to allow MV3 only if it is “substantially” different to MV2, and whether the government might consider prorogation to circumvent this, one gvt source said:

“No! We wouldn’t get the Queen’s Speech through....”

😱😱😱

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) March 18, 2019

excited for the upcoming week of parliamentary Dungeons & Dragons

If you wanted to be charitable to the British constitution, you could argue that this is a fairly sensible rule, which could potentially be included in a more modern approach to government, and that the principle should have been pretty well known by all parties. There are loads of weird and obscure rules nobody really knows about but it would be a stretch to call this one of them.

Certainly seems quite proper to not make any voting body debate the same measure indefinitely

Multiple comments about parliament being confusing/archaic - 100% a feature meant to alienate people from politics in this country afaict.

I mean, yes to all the wigs and bollocks, but a rule like "you can't keep badgering parliament to vote on the same thing time and time again" is a sensible one to have when the executive controls the timetable of the legislature. And sentences like that are necessary to describe how the damn thing works. Fuck confusion. Even X Factor has rules that amount to the same thing: "if you get rejected at the auditions you don't get a third audition with the same act"

the principle should have been pretty well known by all parties.

Tbc, this is what's strange to me. The rule in itself sounds fine, and a smart part of a parliamentary system, where a government is supposed to stand down if it can't get its policies through.

“No! We wouldn’t get the Queen’s Speech through....”