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What is wrong with this government?

(58 Posts)
Quokka Thu 08-Dec-22 15:02:13

“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

These words, or some variation of them, have been invoked on three dramatic occasions in Britain’s House of Commons and are now synonymous with critiques of the country’s powerholders.

First uttered by Oliver Cromwell in 1653, the words were delivered again, perhaps most famously, in a 1940 critique of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The iconic line was then quoted again some 8 decades later, in early 2022, as part of an attack levelled at Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

hazel93 Thu 08-Dec-22 14:58:04

Well, they will try ! I find it quite revealing how many Tory MPs are jumping ship already , never known this before an election that is ostensibly mid term.
Shenagigans afoot - surely not !

Wheniwasyourage Thu 08-Dec-22 14:44:19

It looks as if they are completely helpless and don't know what to do next. Why can't they just give in and give us an election? We surely can't go on like this for more than a year, can we?

Luckygirl3 Thu 08-Dec-22 14:25:00

Can't see this on the news.

But yes, we need a GE.

Happygirl79 Thu 08-Dec-22 14:21:48

This government do whatever they want for their own gain whenever they are able to get away with it . Nothing changes

hazel93 Thu 08-Dec-22 14:20:54

How much worse can it get ? I totally despair, we no longer have a government, just posturing ineffectual people who I would not allow to look after my cats let alone run the country.
Winter of discontent ? In my view will be far worse than that.

Blossoming Thu 08-Dec-22 14:09:34

Yes, we do.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 08-Dec-22 13:48:47

Lindsay Hoyle is forced to suspend the House because the Government has failed to provide the transcript of its full statement to the opposition. This is against the ministerial code.

"This is not the way we do good government."
Lindsay Hoyle.

We so need an election.