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The General Election Campaign Has Started
( Sky News) only there hasn't been a GE decided, no date, Boris wants the 15th October but Corbyn doesn't ?
So what will the 'campaign' contain?
So what will the 'campaign' contain?
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It plainly depends when the election comes as to what the campaign will contain, as far as Brexit is concerned.
An election before Oct 31 looks less than likely at the moment.
The opposition parties decided a over week ago that they were not going to push for one.
Then Johnson announced plans to suspend parliament (plans we now know that had been made in the middle of August).
So this “election now” push by the govt is being made because he thinks it would be in his interests. Which it probably would.
An election before Oct 31 looks less than likely at the moment.
The opposition parties decided a over week ago that they were not going to push for one.
Then Johnson announced plans to suspend parliament (plans we now know that had been made in the middle of August).
So this “election now” push by the govt is being made because he thinks it would be in his interests. Which it probably would.
Only 5am ? What happened to the proposed filibuster ?
Anyway this highlights yet another bug in the system. Where the Prime Minister is meant to be in charge of a government yet when the majority of MPs turn against the PM and government the PM isn't just controlled they can't even call an election like other civilised countries do. They are just left puppetlike with others pulling the strings. It's an intolerable system. That 5 year fixed term gibberish brought in by the coalition needs slinging ASAP.
I think this "People Power" headlined by The Express needs explaining. I think it's been shown that the people have no legal power to get anything done. The referendum shows that.
Anyway this highlights yet another bug in the system. Where the Prime Minister is meant to be in charge of a government yet when the majority of MPs turn against the PM and government the PM isn't just controlled they can't even call an election like other civilised countries do. They are just left puppetlike with others pulling the strings. It's an intolerable system. That 5 year fixed term gibberish brought in by the coalition needs slinging ASAP.
I think this "People Power" headlined by The Express needs explaining. I think it's been shown that the people have no legal power to get anything done. The referendum shows that.
I don't know about repealing the FTPA but the 2/3 majority (on the full House) rule has certainly been shown up as a nonsense.* I can't say I blame Labour and the SNP for abstaining, but it's clearly a fundamental flaw that the result of any given vote can be annulled because the opposition chose to abstain.
* Not that it even needed to be shown explicitly. At the time I can't remember what I thought about the 2/3 thing, but as mentioned elsewhere I did some digging and discovered NJ's well-argued critique of it from 2010.
* Not that it even needed to be shown explicitly. At the time I can't remember what I thought about the 2/3 thing, but as mentioned elsewhere I did some digging and discovered NJ's well-argued critique of it from 2010.
A possible way forward ?
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"Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to hold an early election on 15 October. He needs two-thirds of MPs to support an early election but his motion to do this has failed to gain enough support.
Theoretically, there is another way he could achieve his goal. A short new law specifying the date of an early general election would require only a simple majority and not need two thirds of MPs."
https:/
"Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to hold an early election on 15 October. He needs two-thirds of MPs to support an early election but his motion to do this has failed to gain enough support.
Theoretically, there is another way he could achieve his goal. A short new law specifying the date of an early general election would require only a simple majority and not need two thirds of MPs."
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