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Henry Black posted:Yeah if you're a backbencher and want a seat you have to get up at 6am, write your name on a prayer card, and stick it in the little holders behind the seats. If you're just too lazy then you can sit on the steps. It is a system befitting a modern democracy in 2019. Kind of glad we didnt inherit this system in Canada because Im not sure I could handle our parliament being any weirder/dumber. e: What a lovely page snipe. Sorry guys. I hope these votes are going the right way for you all and things start to unfuck themselves.
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feedmegin posted:And the Speaker, if we're being technical He'll bash your head in! I guess most normies can't sit in the PMs seat either unless allowed to.
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Re Skinners seat, the power that grants it to him is the threat of violence *schniff*
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Doccykins posted:29 amendments put forward, up to the Speaker to decide which ones get voted on any interesting ones likely to pass?
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OwlFancier posted:I kinda wish they'd kept the old layout for parliament with the speaker in the middle of the room, but instead put the entire dais on bearings so bercow could wheel himself around when talking. 
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PST posted:From Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad This deserved more attention
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am i right to assume the gammons are in full meltdown rn more than usually i mean
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If they have another vote on May's deal, this will be the fourth time right? Or the fifth?
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Actually while you're at it just put a motorized turret ring on the speaker's chair and install one of those automated pitching machines loaded with ping pong balls.
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Furnaceface posted:Kind of glad we didnt inherit this system in Canada because Im not sure I could handle our parliament being any weirder/dumber. You need to edit your post with a fact relating to the number 69 or else the Botherington falls precedence is in effect and the magpie proclamation will happen within 3 fortnights.
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I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote?
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The chamber for the Commons was destroyed during the Blitz and plans were made to rebuild it as a larger semicircle with seats for all MPs like any other parliament in the world, but Churchill put his foot down and wanted it to be just like before.notaspy posted:I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote? Withdrawing the whip means "you are no longer a member of our bloc in the House of Commons".
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notaspy posted:I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote? no? they're just kicked from the tory party
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So how long do you reckon it'll take the tories to kick Boris out of the leadership? Surely, it'll be faster than Theresa at this rate.
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Technically you're not allowed to tell an MP how to vote to begin with, so the whip being withdrawn only makes it more democratic!
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notaspy posted:I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote? Why would having the whip withdrawn stop them from voting? MPs are employed as individuals, their relationship to their parties is a parallel but seperate thing. Getting the whip withdrawn makes them technically independents but they're still MPs with all the voting rights that come with that.
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notaspy posted:I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote? Withdrawing the whip doesn't stop them voting, it just kicks them out of the club. They're still MPs, you need to really gently caress up to be removed as a sitting MP (which triggers a by-election to replace you). Removing the right of MPs to vote is a big no no.
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Can someone make Stephen Kinnock shut up
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marktheando posted:Can someone make Stephen Kinnock shut up whats he saying? someone should slap his head though
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Time to sleep through another important vote!
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marktheando posted:Can someone make Stephen Kinnock shut up Somebody get the 2017 exit poll in here.
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so that's 300 a piece with hoey and mann e: lol he forgot about the CUKs
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OwlFancier posted:I kinda wish they'd kept the old layout for parliament with the speaker in the middle of the room, but instead put the entire dais on bearings so bercow could wheel himself around when talking.
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Well, that makes a ton of sense. Why nick your pinky as an example when you can shotgun your leg off instead
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notaspy posted:I thought the rebels had the whip withdrawn and thus couldn't vote? The big deal about the whip being withdrawn is you are out of the party and essentially going to lose your seat at the next election when your former party runs a new candidate against you (because people vote for parties not candidates).
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I'm laughing at Kinnock's attempt to look statesman like with his new Ted Cruz beard
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So what now? How many more votes does the no-deal block need before it becomes True Law(tm)?
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How come Ken Clarke is still sitting in the government benches?
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Jose posted:whats he saying? someone should slap his head though He thinks there should be a cross-party brexit deal, along the lines of what people were talking about when May was pretending to reach across to Labour
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Because the threats were empty.
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Henry Black posted:How come Ken Clarke is still sitting in the government benches? The expelled members decided to just stay where they are and see what happens I guess. I don't think there's anything other than convention dictating where people sit so they don't need to be part of the government to sit on that side.
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People keep posting this but it's pretending that the Lib Dems could ever be coaxed to not side with the Tories.
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Doccykins posted:e: lol he forgot about the CUKs Hard to blame him; everyone else did too.
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If someone wrote a movie character who was a toff tory MP called Sir Bill Cash I'd call them a hack
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Pochoclo posted:So what now? How many more votes does the no-deal block need before it becomes True Law(tm)? It would have to go through the weird place with really old people sitting on red benches, too.
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Jose posted:whats he saying? someone should slap his head though What's Patrick Marber up to now? How much can we as a thread get together to get him to follow Kinnock around dressed as Lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead III and interrupt every single thing Kinnock says? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR1mdQrG26o
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