Petition Again Proroguing Parliament Get Over 1 Million Signatures....

[Gromit]

.... which means it has to be debated in the House of Commons.

Which is shut for 5 weeks. :-/

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157?fbclid=IwAR0xZDEcMTEMXUJ6Ipm10EOt8SkWZL5IuEK8rceZPhuoRtyqvOCk-C-vbnA

[Old_Geezer]

Isn't it all about her being ill advised or something like that. But a) she clearly wasn't, and b) she's perfectly capable of making her own decision regardless of advice anyway.

[ichkeria]

I doubt if the prorogation will be held to be illegal, but that won’t be out of consideration for the Queen.
It wasn’t her idea: she does what she’s told, as has every monarch since Anne.

[ichkeria]

No, she doesn’t make her own decisions. And quite right too.
We can’t have it both ways: she is not elected at all so it would be wrong of her to override the government. Leave that to parliament :-)

[jourdain2]

As far as I can remember Parliament used to close for the Summer Holidays (oops, sorry, recess) until about mid-October, after the Conferences. Everyone used to moan about the length of time-off they had. This was, again from memory, changed by the Blair govt. in the early 2,000s to enable a couple of days debate to clear up odds and ends. I'm fairly sure that it was then abandoned (and reverted to mid-Oct.) until 2010 when Cameron reinstated it and no-one thought anything of it apart from 'good, more normal holidays like us'. It's a case of 'move along, nothing to see here' really; only 4 days lost, which never used to be part of the calendar anyway as far as Ican see.

[Old_Geezer]

But she can. It may cause a constitutional crisis but it's still her option.

[Arksided]

What a bunch of poor losers.

[Davemano]

^^^ Agreed.

[Khandro]

The situation is well outlined here by the estimable Jeff Taylor;

[lankeela]

Am I missing something? The petition is to run till 15th February 2020 so how can the Government debate it before then?