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Current members of parliament were elected by the people in 2017 for a five year term. They should stay until 2022.
by billpg 7y ago
Current members of parliament were elected by the people in 2017 for a five year term. They should stay until 2022.
- pjc50 7y agoIt's the fixed-term Parliament Act that got us into this mess. Under normal circumstances May's deal would have been put to a confidence vote then either accepted or yet another GE called in order to replace the government with a functioning one. The government has a minority of something like -40. This cannot function for long.
- benj111 7y agoI'm not sure that criticism is entirely valid. It isn't like the last election gave anyone a resounding mandate. Plus do we want election after election fought on a single issue? It's torn the Tories apart, Labour isnt far behind, the Lib Dems aren't exactly endorsing a nuanced set of policies. We're going to have a 2nd referendum at some point, personally I'd like it to come before an election so parliament can get back to some kind of normalcy, which I don't think will be helped by a parliament full of MPs selected purely on the basis of their views on one issue.