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We are living in interesting times

• makomk 7y ago
  This is indeed astounding and unprecidented - the court ruling, that is, not proroging Parliament to avoid its scrutiny. (There was a much more clear-cut example of that at the end of the Major administration where he suddenly prorogued Parliament for the entire three-week period between his announcement and the general election, most likely to avoid scrutiny of a corruption scandal involving his party. He was one of the folks who submitted briefs in support of the claim that this prorogration was unprecidented and unlawful.)
  • rutthenut 7y ago
    Major certainly took the pee with his parliament shutdown, making him a hyopcrite when complaining about Boris (stupidly) taking the same approach
    • tim333 7y ago
      It takes a thief to catch a thief
  • SEMW 7y ago
    > This is indeed astounding and unprecidented - the court ruling, that is Not sure I'm convinced of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Unions_v_Minister_for_the_Civil_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Civil_Service_Union... , the first case to hold that prerogative powers were subject to normal principles of judicial review, may have been that -- but that was 35 years ago, the principle's been accepted for a long time