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andrewducker) wrote2018-10-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-10-2018
- The secret physics of dandelion seeds
- (tags: plants flight )
- Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
- My first thought was DR & Quinch's "Snufflegruffs".
(tags: animals SouthAmerica tunnels ) - Trump: UK must dump 'unjustified' food standards for Brexit trade deal
- (tags: UK USA Europe food doom OhForFucksSake )
- If we hit January with no deal then there's not enough time to hold an election before Brexit
- (tags: UK europe elections time doom )
- How Facebook’s fraudulent data pushed news publishers to make terrible decisions on video
- (tags: videos journalism Facebook fraud OhForFucksSake )
- Colored filter improves dyslexic children's reading speed
- (tags: dyslexia reading colour psychology )
- The gender paradox is complex
- (tags: gender equality personality psychology )
- Girl gamers are more likely to study science and technology degrees
- (tags: women gaming education science )
- 'I Didn’t Hate the English — Until Now'
- (tags: England Ireland history ignorance society )
- It's Customs Union or No Deal
- (tags: UK europe doom )
- If Brexit happens we’d have to choose between trade with China or US, says Trump trade aide
- (tags: trade UK europe USA china )
- What really terrifies Shaggy?
- (tags: comic meaning viaSwampers )
- The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit
- (tags: UK politics Europe doom )
- The Bosnian Jews who speak medieval Spanish
- (tags: spain Jews language history Bosnia )
- Jonesy from Alien gets his own book
- (tags: alien cats books )
- Gibraltar status agreement reached in Brexit talks, says Spain
- (tags: uk spain europe Gibraltar )
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No, they don't. All dialects change over time. Even if you retain some older forms, you gain new innovations.
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Trump clearly doesn't get that you can't MAKE people buy the substandard crap his food industry churns out!
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The constitutional mess that might come out of Brexit is pretty messy.
There's no clear way forward if May's government loses a vote of no confidence. In the past a Vote of No Confidence gave the sitting Prime Minister one of three choices, stand down and hand over to someone else, fight on and bring back the same bill back and see if they can make it pass a second time or three ask for a dissolution of Parliament. (Ask being important, the decision in theory wasn't the PM's).
The Fixed Term Parliament Ac complicates things. The PM loses control of the calling of a general election and a clock is definately ticking in a way that it perhaps wasn't before. Probably somebody else needs to become Prime Minister if May loses but who gets first go? Corbyn? The winner of the Tory election contest. May can't really stay on as caretaker PM until that is concluded as she only has two weeks to win a vote of confidence before a general election happens. So, some interim PM? From the Conservative Party? If so, on what basis?
If May loses a vote of no confidence and resigns and Corbyn goes to the Palace he has two weeks to cobble together a rainbow arrangement in order to win a vote of confidence. During which time he is Prime Minister with all the rights and privileges that entails - including the right at the first attempt to form a government in the event of a hung parliament after a general election.
Ditto if Johnson gets in a cab to Pall Mall and flim flams the Queen in to letting him be Prime Minister.
I don't think there is a constitutional bar to Ruth Davidson or John Major being made a baron and PM-ing from the Lords for a short period a la Alec Douglas-Home.
So a bunch of people put themselves in front of the Queen as candidate for PM and she actually has to chose one. Or she can not chose one and disolve Parliament, which is a) itself a political choice and b) given the ticking clock of Brexit (the very issue which brought down the May government) is still ticking and c) she still needs to pick a Prime Minister to be Prime Minister during the election. Or she needs to decide not to have a Prime Minister for six weeks or more during the final run up to Brexit.
Assuming that the ECJ rules that the UK can unilaterally revoke Article 50 - who can do that? Does it require an Act of the UK Parliament or can the PM do it using perogative powers? The Miller Case required an Act to invoke Article 50 but that's because Article 50 made specific reference to the normal constitutional process of the invoking state.
So Keir Starmer ends up leading a government of national unity and un-invokes Article 50 unilaterally as PM triggering a court case that parallels Miller.
Meanwhile we still don't have a withdrawal agreement and we're probably overdue for European Parliament elections.
That's before the Queen dies, or is brain damaged by a stroke when Johnson looms in to her presence chamber or the Scottish Parliament dissolves itself so the SNP can fight a Scottish General Election on a 1 line manifesto "Scotland to leave the UK and remain a part of the EU." Or one of the Supreme Court Justices dies when we don't have a government. Or the Speaker loses a vote of no confidence in the run up to any of the important votes in the House of Commons.
If only there were an organisation willing to campaign for new, codified constitution for the UK.
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"The Fixed Term Parliament Ac complicates things. The PM loses control of the calling of a general election and a clock is definately ticking in a way that it perhaps wasn't before. Probably somebody else needs to become Prime Minister if May loses."
There's nothing in the FTPA that says that Theresa May needs to go if she loses a vote of no confidence. She's perfectly allowed to hang around for the following two weeks trying to make a new coalition which allows her to retain power. The FPTA says nothing, in fact, about who the Prime Minister should be - it's purely a method for calling for an election.
So Boris Johnson can do what he likes (and so can Jeremy Corbyn), but Theresa May doesn't stop being Prime Minister unless she's removed by some other means.
Now, Keith Starmer can possibly, in those two weeks, form a government of national unity. And good luck to him. But if he doesn't then there's an election.
Oh, and the queen can't dissolve parliament. See section 3 of the FPTA:
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Without a PM there can be no vote of confidence in the government.
So the Queen can, if May loses a vote of confidence, remove her from office, and not appoint a replacement, therefore preventing Parliament from actively voting for the new government. In effect dissolving Parliament.
Or she can appoint whomever she wishes as Prime Minister. Which is a political decision which she is encouraged not to make.
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And I think that your 'in effect' there is making a huge leap. I'd like to see it justified.
Particularly given clause 2 of section 3 being very clear that there's only one way to dissolve parliament.
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Technically the Queen isn't dissolving Parliament. She is creating (or allowing to continue) a state of affairs that leads to the dissolution of Parliament by operation of the FTPA.
I think the FTPA is clear. If there is a vote of no confidence in the government then there is a two week window for a government (any government) to win a vote of confidence or else the FTPA triggers a general election which in turn dissolves Parliament.
I think that once the government has lost a vote of no confidence the Queen can dismiss it, not appoint a replacement and then sit the clock out (a pocket veto).