So he’s done it?

Imagine this

A populist authoritarian MP, calls an election and tries to win by pitching the “will of the people” against the legislature.
A legislature who want the “will of the people” to be tested now that it is fully clear exactly what Brexit with a deal will bring us and a brexit without a deal.

And leavers talk about democracy. What a joke.

Doesn't Parliament shut down during "Conference Season" and also the week before the Queens Speech every year?

You couldn't make this up. If this was the plot of a novel, it'd be laughed at.

What've we got? A vast majority of constituencies who voted leave. A Parliament refusing to obey the wishes and result of a democratic process. A Speaker who is supposed to be impartial, but doing his very best to stop Brexit, by any means. A vast majority of MPs who are trying to stop Brexit happening, whilst pretending to want to just delay it because "the deal's not right", even though it's against their constituents' wishes and even though they signed off Article 50.

And now they're all howling because Boris is calling their bluff and actually trying to thwart their devious plans and deliver DEMOCRACY.

What HYPOCRITES. What DISHONESTY.

I only hope that when the smoke clears, and we're out of the EU, people remember these traitors at future elections. Yes, I'm afraid there's no other name for people who actively try to undermine the country at times like this.S

What Major did was rather pathetically try to avoid cash for questions criticism.

ug no I think you are muddled.

Parliament has not been prorogued by a government in order to circumvent parliamentary opposition to government policy since 1948, when parliament was prorogued following the Lords opposition.

This has never happened since nor before throughout the past 100 years.

What Johnson is doing is totally unprecedented and amounts to a coup by an unelected prime minister who has not yet sat a day in parliament nor passed a single piece of legislature.

And you call that democratic?!

I think Jacob is going to Balmoral

No idea what the Queen will say.

I'd have thought she'd have to accept seeing as the Government is 'her' Government.

No idea.

Is HM allowed to do that in Scotland while the Scottish courts are considering the case?

I feel sorry for the Queen.

Johnson is going to Balmoral to ask Her Majesty to prorogue parliament.

I hope she puts on her best blue hat and tells him NO.

Hypocritical John Major prorogued parliament in 1997! for just on three weeks to suppress the cash for questions report being disclosed just before a GE, in order that the report came out afterwards!
MP's only have themselves to blame for this state of affairs. If they really can't sort out brexit in three years,then someone is obviously going to have to. The thought of yet another date with the accompanying faffing, arguing, back stabbing by these deeply stupid people, is probably more than most of us can put up with! Just get on with it!!

Is it ‘great minds think alike’?

No. It's what they're saying on the radio.

Please everyone try and understand that Boris Johnson in cahoots with Dominic Cummings is doing exactly what they planned. To get everybody so riled up about a no deal Brexit that they will manage to get anything he comes up with through Parliament . Because the MPs don’t vote for it he will put the blame for an no deal Brexit bBrexit squarely on them !! He’s evil, and a serial liar . Very Trumpesque sadly .

I thought along exactly the same lines as you GG13

Is it ‘great minds think alike’?

The Remainers on here (the majority by far!) would say ‘fools seldom differ’.

I thought I’d get it in first.?

And 123coco so quick with a personal insult name & shame! LadyGracie just happens (as do a minority on here) to have a different viewpoint to you.

Not ‘sad’ at all.

It’s allowed.

Without much outrage

Yes there was - what are you talking about?! Granted, not on this scale, but this transcends anything we've seen in decades, and not in a good way.

226,581 signatures on the petition now.

Only 100,000 needed for it to be debated.

It's never been prorogued for 24 days though, has it?

It's ridiculous. I don't believe for one moment he will get away with it.

varian. I’m not signing it not because it’s what I want to happen because I think it’s all the cunning plan of Dominic Cummings to get the MPs to vote for BJ bill which will be basically Mays bill with a bit of tweaking to the backstop and then if they resist hell just blame them for it , everybody is playing into his hands with all the outrage ( it is v outrageous though) Itwill be exactly what Dominic Cummings likes . They should’ve called his bluff on the no. Brexit . there is no way he would want to go down in history as that !! Afraid the ordinary people who voted leave are going to have to feel the full force of what is going to impact on them personally before they wake up .

I so agree with Daisymae!

I think that could be part of it Grannygravy.

Sorry Urmstongran, crossed posts.

No Whitewavemark2 you are wrong: Prerogation (sic) has only been used once apart from a few days before the QS. That was by Attlee trying to get the NHS through the resistance of the HoL. Before that you would have to go back to the nineteenth century.

John Major prorogued Parliament without much outrage.

I have my tin hat on but here goes anyway.............Has anyone considered that the prorogued parliament is in fact a signal to the EU that the UK is serious about leaving the EU deal or no deal.

Pussyfooting around for three years has resulted in a disastrous WDA, which was unable to get through parliament on three occasions.

Hopefully this will concentrate their minds to come up with some compromises on the WDA, basically "a who blinks first" situation.

(James Major prorogued parliament to prevent a debate on the sleazy "cash for questions" debacle)

I agree Minnie - after all, they have no respect for parliamentary democracy, so a petition will hold no sway for these arrogant people. However, it will give an indication of just how many people despise them and their actions.

Nan - did you vote for Boris et al to behave in this way?

I propose that MPs are unpaid for the suspension. They would soon move forward.

LadyGracie. Sad person. Wanting an autocracy. No wonder the country is a laughing stock. Bet you voted for him as well !!