PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

what’s the process if he resigns?

caretaker PM JC agrees an extension and then we go to the country with BJ able to play the hard man of brexit while the remain part of his coalition leaks to the LDs?

Enough Tory MPs have to agree to JC as caretaker? In which case forget it.

the commons has 14 days to avoid a GE by placing its confidence in another govt but quite how candidates are put forward is unclear to me and the govt thinks they can obfuscate it. all the rules date from the cameron govt and have never been applied before

so bercow is off on oct 31 and the new speaker will be elected while the tories don't have a parliamentary majority

Speaking of The Caretaker, I choose to believe that Everywhere at the End of Time, which ostensibly charts an Alzheimer sufferer's descent into irreversible oblivion, is in fact an aural allegory of Brexit Britain.

Early candidates for Speaker include @HarrietHarman @RhonddaBryant @LindsayHoyle_MP

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) September 9, 2019

May In

Bercow's last act is to ensure his successor is not chosen by a possible new Conservative government, but by the current opposition-controlled House.

— Nigel Fletcher (@nigelfletcher) September 9, 2019

Lindsay Hoyle is the fav, seems like a total arse-hoyle.

What’s wrong with him?

He dead. Meanwhile:

From now until 7.15pm: MPs debate the Grieve SO24 motion saying the government should publish its Operation Yellowhammer documents and correspondent about proroguing parliament. At 7.15pm there will be a vote taking about 15 minutes.

7.30pm: MPs will debate Jeremy Corbyn’s motion for 90 minutes. It may go through at the end without a division.

Around 9pm: MPs will debate a motion under the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act and Lords amendments to the parliamentary buildings (restoration and renewal) bill. In theory up to two and a half hours has been set aside for these matters, but they are likely to wrap up much sooner - perhaps in about an hour.

Around 10pm?: MPs begin the 90-minute debate on Boris Johnson’s motion calling for an early election. When it finishes there will be a vote, that will take about 15 minutes. After that parliament will prorogue.

Good luck sticking to that...

Reminder of what he's doing here. Grieve is going to use a 'humble address' to get communication about prorogation, including WhatsApp, text messages etc, from key people around the PM, including special advisor Dominic Cummings & director of legislative affairs Nikki da Costa.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) September 9, 2019

Tweet of the day, even better than the Laura K one:

Best of luck to a Conservative administration, for example, in appealing to the rule of law when trying to quell a trade union which decides to go on strike illegally.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 9, 2019

lewis... the conservative party can do whatever the fuck it likes because it will never be pulled up on its hypocrisy and in fact will receive active cover from a large percentage of our esteemed press...

Easy to miss lovely stuff like this among the big-ticket items

with the appointment of Therese Coffey as the new Work and Pensions Secretary, now a majority of members of the cabinet voted against same-sex marriage. This is the most homophobic government since the early 1990s. pic.twitter.com/heJ7K7GEy1

— Calum Sherwood (@CalumSSherwood) September 9, 2019

xp otm and will go full incitement at a second’s notice

tweet of the minute

Dominic Grieve tells Parliament he has received information from inside Government, the implication of which, is that Boris Johnson misled the Queen about his reasons for requesting the prorogation of Parliament 🔥🔥🔥

— Ben Bradshaw (@BenPBradshaw) September 9, 2019

There is something that really bothers me about Hoyle it might be that horrid accent. Probably better him than Harman I suppose, but when you look at the bookies shortlist for next speaker of the house a pattern emerges; they are all fucking different shades of horrible!

LOCK HIM UP xp

Grieve putting the boot in here, u luv 2 c it

Like is the queen going to rip her mask off and go V on Boris? Cos otherwise who gives a fuck

ETA: extremely angry as I have just lost signal as I hit post and I’ve probably missed it actually happening 🦎

xxp Bercow was in the Monday Club and there’s nothing wrong with Hoyle’s (Lancs?) accent, although that may be my bias towards northern accents speaking

In the Commons Chris Leslie, the Independent Group for Change MP, intervenes on Dominic Grieve to quote from a Mail Online story quoting a No 10 source saying that even if the motion is passed Downing Street will not comply.

He says that is the problem. NNo 10 is quoted saying things like this that ignore all conventional rules. He says it is impossible to know where these comments come from.

Rees-Mogg in trouble if Grieve's motion mean he has to hand over all his received telegrams as yet uneaten.

Fabricant a 100\1 shot for next speaker! Yep Bercow the saviour of parliamentary democracy was a total pro apartheid right wing arsehole as well.

He’s at his HoC window now solemnly flinging his pigeons into the air

Being told Fabricant's wig has announced it will not be standing at the next GE.

Like is the queen going to rip her mask off and go V on Boris? Cos otherwise who gives a fuck

Old people who venerate the queen, who will be deeply troubled at the thought that Boris would lie to Her Majesty.

I thought they generally rotated speakers - if you excuse the phrase - the Speaker before Bercow, Michael 'Ordeur Ordeur' Martin was Labour, Bercow was a Tory (lol), next one should not be another Tory (lolx2).

(xp) No-one really cares about the Queen tbh.

i think the alternation is a recent practice rather than a rule or even a convention

but doesn't the queen care if the pm lies to her or not?

xp otm, but there’s probably the numbers for a moderate Lab speaker

(xp) She does what she's told.

just looking at next speaker betting, Hoyle 4/6 fav but there has been some money on tory Eleanor Laing 12/1 to 5/1 .

My God, another Tory from Paisley!

Laing is a fan of Rangers F.C., and the vice-chairman of the Westminster Parliamentary Rangers Supporters' Club.[10]

>:(

Sometimes HD television is very unnecessary. pic.twitter.com/UQFlulLnSJ

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) September 9, 2019

Are we really supposed to believe that the Queen didn't know why Johnson wanted to suspend Parliament?

Don't think so, especially after she was put in the picture by Swinson and Soubry at Nando's

Are we really supposed to believe that the Queen didn't know why Johnson wanted to suspend Parliament?

I think you're holding the wrong end of the stick. Politically, it's more about Boris lying than the queen believing.

Have had this on in background but darkly amused at Gove invoking article 8 of the ECHR to defend civil servants and spads. Was he so concerned about the chilling effects of surveillance before? Don’t seem to recall that.

Since we’re speaking of the queen, this motion is “an humble address” which petitions her (government) to do something, in this case release stuff

I see Barry G behind Corbyn just as if to annoy whoever said they were glad to see less of him earlier.

PM is not there. Opposition MPs shouting “where is he?”

I’m clearly the only one watching tonight lol so

Sickening to see MPs who have routinely trashed the Human Right Act and promoted intrusive surveillance legislation scurrying to hide behind ECHR and Article 8 in respect of electronic communications

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) September 9, 2019

I see Barry G behind Corbyn just as if to annoy whoever said they were glad to see less of him earlier.

That was me, I don't mind looking at him or even listening to him as long as he's talking about anything but Labour Party policy.

Corbyn refers to the government’s “numerous WhatsApp groups”. We live in a society...

they are all run by MR seamas milne iirc