It seems Labour MPs , while holding signs, grabbed the speaker to stop him leaving.Possibly Tory MPs barging and shouting towards the Labour MPsLabour MPs singing 'The Red Flag'SNP MPs singing 'Flower Of Scotland' or 'ScotsWha Hae'Welsh MPs singing 'Bread Of Heaven'.
and some absolutely pished Tory MPs.
And Bercow looking like he would gladly fight MPs.
Bercow said he didn't give a 'flying flamingo' what a Tory MP thought of him.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 00:57 (six years ago)
The closing down of Parliament by Johnson & the Tories provoked anger in the Commons but also in the final moments of this Parliamentary session a defiant burst of singing of the “Red Flag” by Labour MPs. We will never let this extreme right wing Tory sect silence our democracy. https://t.co/0HLwcUQAdr— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) September 10, 2019
After the prorogation ceremony with Black Rod in the House of Lords, Speaker John Bercow returns to the House Of Commons to relay what happened in the ceremony to the boycotting #Labour MPs who shout “shame!” #emergencydebate #Commons #Prorogation pic.twitter.com/T00WnUcnCG— Omar Moore (@thepopcornreel) September 10, 2019
Labour MPs and other opposition MPs line up to shake hands with Speaker John Bercow following the prorogation ceremony with Black Rod. No Tory MPs are in sight, though there are one or two MPs on the left side chamber. Extraordinary scene. Unprecedented. #Commons #emergencydebate pic.twitter.com/XGdvppYQdY— Omar Moore (@thepopcornreel) September 10, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 05:20 (six years ago)
Re that protest
Tonight in the chamber @LoveSocialism Labour and Green MPs symbolically opposed the prorogation of Parliament. It was based on the 1629 event, where MPs pinned the Speaker to his seat in an attempt to prevent the prorogation of Parliament. #DefendDemocracy #OurParliamentSilenced https://t.co/2VwpwfuKfN pic.twitter.com/NW3h2bwPrr— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) September 10, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 05:40 (six years ago)
will gavin barwell ever be held to account for grenfell?
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 06:07 (six years ago)
LibDems promising to revoke A50 is 2019’s version of ‘no tuition fees’.
― coup de twat (suzy), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 06:40 (six years ago)
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP 🏴🏳️🌈✔@MartinJDochertyI can confirm that we just sang Scots Wha Hae and now it’s Plaid and Labour having a wee go as well... Tories utterly dumbfounded
I can confirm that we just sang Scots Wha Hae and now it’s Plaid and Labour having a wee go as well... Tories utterly dumbfounded
Oh that's the prat I was refererring to last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhtpYIRHAU
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:01 (six years ago)
xp esp cos they’re like, if we don’t win a majority we will campaign for a 2nd ref and to remain lol
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:10 (six years ago)
A senior Tory told @BuzzFeed News that MPs had told whips that May's political secretary Stephen Parkinson “ has to go and should avoid hanging on and becoming an even bigger story".They described his outing of Shahmir Sanni as "very distasteful" https://t.co/Aq3LyPZiAk— Stuart Millar (@stuartmillar159) March 26, 2018
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:11 (six years ago)
feels like an odd move from the lib dems. all their messaging has been about winning conservative voters. by trying to head off labour as well they risk doing neither.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:22 (six years ago)
i mean not uncharacteristic obv. just not v smart.
Boycott knighthood getting a fair bit of pushback for honouring a domestic abuser and fan of blackface.
― coup de twat (suzy), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:27 (six years ago)
A majority of both Conservative (55%) and Leave (60%) voters, however, think a no-deal Brexit would result in a clean break from the EU, meaning the country could then focus on something else https://t.co/qlpc8bmVsj pic.twitter.com/t9VsWdSeZe— YouGov (@YouGov) September 9, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:28 (six years ago)
Cool.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:31 (six years ago)
The more this goes on the more I think the rest of the world needs to come up with a solution for the UK akin to that which Douglas Adams came up with for Krikket. It’s the only thing that will make these morons happy.
Alternatively I have a half-remember radio play vignette about an alternate reality Britain (reachable through a stair at the back of Harrods Foodhall) that was Edwardian Britain in with a small patch of the Algarve so people could go on holiday. Could someone in London check for the staircase and start sending people down.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:43 (six years ago)
Tbh I'm a little disappointed that it didn't devolve into an MMA free-for-all, Ukrainian parliament-style.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:50 (six years ago)
Theresa May continuing to make some great decisions I see pic.twitter.com/8avQNTqeO7— Alan White (@aljwhite) September 10, 2019
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:52 (six years ago)
🐦[A majority of both Conservative (55%) and Leave (60%) voters, however, think a no-deal Brexit would result in a clean break from the EU, meaning the country could then focus on something else https://t.co/qlpc8bmVsj🕸 pic.twitter.com/t9VsWdSeZe🕸— YouGov (@YouGov) September 9, 2019🕸]🐦
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 07:59 (six years ago)
because xenophobia is a helluva drug?
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:06 (six years ago)
because they said it once unthinkingly and well theres no going back now is there
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:08 (six years ago)
xxpost For a lot of them, it’s because they’re not interested in the detail and complexity of government. They remember life before the EU, and they believe what is printed in the papers that they read (and what is said by the likes of Farage.)
― AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:09 (six years ago)
Boycott has slipped so much tory brown-nosing into tea-breaks on 5 live during test commentary over the years I'm surprised the cunt wasn't knighted years ago.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:10 (six years ago)
because they just want to get on with it so they can return to discussing the finer points of the constitution and macroeconomic policy as they usually do
I guess I haven't thought about it too much but yeah why exactly are team "just get on with it" so keen to just get on with it? obviously many of them will be rampant Brexiters terrified that delay means revocation, but there must be a tranche of the kind of mimsy TV vox pop normies who just like saying shit like "just get on with it" because they know fuck all of what they speak but are big fans of acting without pissing about thinking
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:17 (six years ago)
I think they want to “just get on with it” because it’s an electorally resonant message - ie let’s get a majority and deal with the fallout later
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:29 (six years ago)
oh I meant the alleged voter on the street who keeps allegedly saying this, I know what the Cummings Party's game is
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:32 (six years ago)
You could hold a referendum on literally any subject and ask would you rather choose:
[ ] Team 'get on with it'[ ] Team 'let's not get on with it just yet'
The first option will always win. It's one of the better Tory spins to try and portray Remain/opposition as team 'not getting on with it', even though they (must) know their own team slogan is completely contrary to how it will play out. Get on wiffit just sounds 'better'. I'm afraid there's not a lot more to it than that.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:33 (six years ago)
Re: yougov I'd read that at least 40% of leavers don't want no deal which is a substantial split.
The splits into both remain and leave are why we could have another hung parliament.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:33 (six years ago)
xps
Doesn’t the great British public know that the future (much as the past) only hold variations on a them of half in and half out of the EU?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:36 (six years ago)
LBI otm. Team 'get on with it' is supposedly proactive and spirited and proud, unlike their static adversaries.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:39 (six years ago)
yeah i get that, i guess i'm just saying "just get on with it" only really sounds good if you're a fucking idiot
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:42 (six years ago)
They are in denial.
Five million Tory voters chose Remain. Those poll numbers only prove that public support for no deal is dwindling when the number of Leave voters who want a deal are combined with Remain voters.
― coup de twat (suzy), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:43 (six years ago)
well yeah xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:43 (six years ago)
all the money is being chucked on Harman to be the next speaker, she's as short as 5/2 now. Of course how much this means is dependent on how smart or dumb the money is!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:52 (six years ago)
I take back what I posted about Hoyle yesterday.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:54 (six years ago)
if the lib dems really want to shift the overton window they should run on a "aren't you sick of all this westminster nonsense? let's wind up parliament forever and let the EU run everything" platform
― ogmor, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:54 (six years ago)
it's only the Speaker, prior to the last 12 months it has't mattered a jot for 300+ years
xp lol ogmor yes
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:58 (six years ago)
libdems will never the numbers to revoke a 50 and their bullshit posturing is a gift to cummings
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:03 (six years ago)
I couldn't really care less about next speaker tbh. It's just a next football manager betting type interest for me.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:07 (six years ago)
Clegg's commitment on tuition fees was the fag-end of this strategy. With Labour's shift left, you'd expect a return to torpid centrism, but under Cable & Swinson the LDs have adopted increasingly divisive & implausible policies, largely as clickbait.— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) September 10, 2019
this person has Swinson's number
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:14 (six years ago)
I imagine it's only the wife beating and racism that prevented him being knighted before.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:16 (six years ago)
and it still might have with PMs with an ounce of shame
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:18 (six years ago)
couldn't really care less about next speaker tbh. It's just a next football manager betting type interest for me.
― calzino, Tuesday, September 10, 2019 11:07 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Seriously though, do you agree that Bercow did more good than bad w/ these Brexit shenanigans? And if yes, it seems like it does matter, maybe more than ever, who the new speaker is?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:18 (six years ago)
After a long day in Parliament trying to defend democracy and a 5 week shutdown the three MPs who live on the 88 Bus Route are heading home its only 2:22am! @KerryMP @DanielZeichner pic.twitter.com/Uf7xYQnOgX— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) September 10, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:20 (six years ago)
John Mann getting a peerage is it?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:20 (six years ago)
this is what a feminist looks like *knights a wife-beater*
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:24 (six years ago)
That's exponentially more despicable than Boycott getting knighted. (xp)
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:25 (six years ago)
xxxxp to lbiBercow was in a far right pro apartheid nasty tory clique in the 80's, he might have done some good work but i think its questionable whether any other speaker would have done any different and the veneration he's getting from the melts is rather sickening, overall he's a total dud.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:25 (six years ago)
He's an arsehole but Tories hate him so he can't be all bad.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:27 (six years ago)
like that nice nazi speer!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:28 (six years ago)
Getting peerages for invaluable contributions to the discourse like
Labour leader Ed Miliband has been urged to recruit Sir Alex Ferguson to coach the party to election victory in 2015.The former Manchester United manager advised Tony Blair in the run-up to his 1997 landslide and MP John Mann has written to Mr Miliband requesting an action replay.Mr Mann wrote: “In addition to the undoubted morale boost, Sir Alex would shape and inspire a new generation of Labour Party activists, and provide unrivalled experience of management and long-term planning.”A Labour source yesterday said Mr Miliband would be happy to listen to the footie legend’s views, adding: “We welcome all advice.”
A Labour MP is calling on police to find out who was responsible for "favouriting" a pornographic image on a Conservative MP's Twitter account.Karl McCartney, Tory MP for Lincoln, had denied using the "favourite" function on the social networking site, claiming his account had been hacked.John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, wrote to police asking if they could establish who "favourited" the tweet.Lincolnshire Police said no formal investigation was under way.The "favourite" function allows Twitter users to show their appreciation for tweets and to bookmark them.
― gyac, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:29 (six years ago)