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I'm genuinely shocked. Proroguing (suspending) Parliament normally happens every single year, just before the Party Conference Season, (i.e. right now). Any b

I'm genuinely shocked. Proroguing (suspending) Parliament normally happens every single year, just before the Party Conference Season, (i.e. right now). Any bills that have failed to pass are dropped, and there is a new Queens Speech for new bills in a new session. It didn't happen last year which makes this Parliament the longest in recent history. It is also very explicitly a political act for political purposes. And it has now been ruled "illegal", without any mention of what LAW has actually been broken? Yes, Johnson tacked on an extra week (4 Parliamentary days) of suspension. A political act - by a politician. So? What next? Are they going to rule that the Act of Voting is illegal? That's a political act as well!

ljf 7y ago
In case you don't know what was illegal (actually unlawful) here, it was the fact that he had a hidden agenda (to stifle debate). Proroguing parliament is not unlawful, but using it as a tool to stop parliament exerting it's right - and then pretending it is for a different reason, is unlawful (the Supreme Court has decided) EDITED- removed: "that his reasoning by which he asked the Queen to close parliament was not truthful or honest" as this is not correct. The only unlawful bit was that he wanted to stifle debate: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49810261 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49810261 - "The decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification."