From the Guardian blog tonight (no, not the football one - although I have an eye on that as well):
So Chris (Lord) Patten beat the government in the name of common sense, Irish peace and economic good order whilst May acted like a headless chicken and told her officials to 'go away and do something'.
The Lords amendment on this has to be right: nothing else will do and the fact is May knows it and won't admit it.
How much longer is it before we and she are put out of this misery?
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“How much longer is it before we and she are put out of this misery?”
I know it’s irresponsible of me, but I’m quite enjoying the government’s woes at the moment.
I’m not sure how long it will be before I get bored with that.
And right on cue, that joker Farage is calling for a Referendum to abolish the Lords, for performing their constitutional, and, incidentally, offering an object lesson in “taking back control”, by demonstrating thr sovereignty of Parliament.
See: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-calls-for-a-referendum-on-the-abolition-of-the-house-of-lords-over-brexit-defeats-a3829086.html
Farage is plausible, I grant, but without real depth. Alas, a joker and buffoon.
Noblesse oblige. ?
Still works. …….Some of the time.
Or is it the exercise of informed self interest. Nigel Farage would know more about that than me, I guess, but I’d hesitate to accept his opinion on anything – even the quality of a pint of ale.
It would be interesting to know how a ‘properly’ constituted Second Chamber would be responding to the current crisis in the Commons.
Life does not run control experiments
“Life does not run control experiments”
Indeed. There are far too many imponderables. But it prompted me to wonder what I would expect of a second chamber and how it might be constituted. And indeed to wonder how different that might be from what Nigel Farage might have in mind.
Given his approach to Brexit he would perhaps just do away with the House of Lords without bothering to consider an alternative. 🙂
I think that she will resign over the weekend as the daggers are drawn after the local election results.
I may be wrong, but why should she continue when she can give it up and retire.
Let’s see
Bob Wilkinson says:
“I think that she will resign over the weekend…..”
I’m inclined to think she will need to be pushed. I don’t see her as the retiring type, and I’m doubtful that the party dares to push her at this juncture, but….
‘If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly”