There You Go Boris.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/news/106861/sir-john-major-warns-boris-johnson-could
Cheers for the idea Mr Major!

[dannyk13]

Nice of him to advise Boris how to get Brexit through on 31st.

[ToraToraTora]

i thought so danny!

[mushroom25]

the assumption is that the privy council would pass such an order. the council is not - as stated in the article - comprised (exclusively) of government ministers. membership today includes Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ian Blackford, Menzies Campbell and a host of others who could block it.

[drmorgans]

Not forgetting Lady Hale and other members of the Supreme Court

[naomi24]

John Major says that Boris 'has deprived parliament of a voice' over Brexit. Boris has held office for a couple of months. What happened to the past three years? Like the rest of the duplicitous Remainers, Major is an expert in chicanery.

[spathiphyllum]

Maybe you know.. he was referring to the fact that he suspended parliament?

That's kind of silencing the voice.

[jim360]

Johnson might not have succeeded in depriving Parliament of a voice but it's pretty clear that's what he has been trying to do.

[naomi24]

Haha! Suddenly parliament is desperate for what amounted to a few days? Why? So that it can uphold its promise to respect the result of the referendum? I think not.

[spathiphyllum]

Is suspending parliament an act of silencing parliament or not, Naomi?

Does parliament have a strong voice, when it is suspended?

[naomi24]

Had the intention been to suspend parliament until after 31 October, I’d have said so … but it wasn’t.

[Prudie]

So parliament would have solved it in that 5 weeks after failing for the last 3 years - well now they have a chance to prove it....

[fiction-factory]

When the only alternative suggestions from the HoC seem to be a combination of remain/ extend again or have another vote (but get the question ' right' to guarantee the desired result) I am not sure what difference parliament can make given where we are. They just want to make things awkward as possible for Boris and perhaps be close at hand if they feel Boris may have something up his sleeve to thwart the extension

[jim360]

What Parliament does or does not do with its voice is a separate question to whether or not it's right, or -- more to the point -- lawful, to silence it.

[drmorgans]

The referendum was very poorly drafted, not giving any clue as to how or when we would leave the EU, no mention of March or October 2019, Norway- / Canada-style deals, no-deal. Hence the problems - some leavers want to have close ties but be out of the ECJ / political and economic integration, others to cut the ties and have some sort of trading arrangement.

[naomi24]

'Right', Jim? You jest, surely.

[THECORBYLOON]

Difficult to believe, I know, there are other matters needing Parliamentary scrutiny such as the continuing lack of an Assembly in Ulster for example and what actions are being taken to resolve that.

[jim360]

Nope, no jesting.

[naomi24]

^ ... he said with a straight face. :o)

[fiction-factory]

There are of course always matters to discuss and decide on- but I don't recall that being used as a reason to block recesses for party conferences or summer recesses before.

[Old_Geezer]

One would hope the government would already be aware. I have assumed they knew of and rejected many of the unplayed options so far.