EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Is this just to get round the fixed term parliament act so they can get the GE in before the 31st of October?

Does this help in any way? You just need a 2/3 majority no?

interesting watching the map for the anti-proroguation petition

Also, not sure on the legality of Johnson trying to force a new election off the back of a Vote of No Confidence, given the confidence bits in the fixed terms act.

Interesting map but if Brexit has told us one thing, it is that those petitions are a waste of everyone's time

Surely that just shows where various facebook friends groups live/are registered to vote? Also ^ what @EstelleGetty says, that's just a mthod for communication so we think they might listen.

Does this help in any way? You just need a 2/3 majority no?

It shortens the timeline I think - they're betting on Corbyn being unwilling to stand aside, therefore a GNU won't get the votes, which means they can shortcut the timing to get a GE before Brexit day - an election after Brexit day would be suicidal as we'd have the actual results of no-deal, food and medicine shortages, English Police on the border in NI etc.

There's an online government petition that went from 70k to 113k in the space of 10 minutes.
I'm not sure it's gonna change ANYTHING.
BUT since I have no say in voting for/against this Shitshow that's all I have left.
That and go marching on October 19th.
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Does it not take several weeks to organize an election? The problems may just bite?

Let's hope this is all to force some sort of deal through, but with the backstop rhetorics I'm really not sure that is the plan.

But this one is over 100k signatures so they have to discuss it in parlia... oh.

Perfect time for the Queen to abdicate and leave her least favourite son to do the thing.

Although - wait - what happens if parliament is suspended and we don’t have a monarch? Does the head of the post office become lord regent of the UK?

...I'd not actually entertained this thought until the mention of policing the border further up.

What happens if the UK allows no deal to go through, then buries it's head entirely - think full blown toddler tantrum?

All of the no-deal scenarios seem to be built vaguely on some level of co-operation, or having a vague notion of which direction to point the ship. Something that seems to be lacking a tad (assuming you aren't betting against the pound / looking to make a few bob in the sale of public services...).

No, it's using the postcode that people input when they sign.

Madeline McCann for Prime Minister!

I'm visiting London from Ireland on November 8th. I would like them to delay all this for 10 days so I can avoid any disruption please. After that, have at.

We've had 2 very high profile referenda here in Ireland in the last few years that thousands of people felt compelled to come home for and vote in. I think if similar had happened for the EU referendum, it would have gone the way of the remainers ever so marginally.

The difference was 1.7 million. EU nationals could not vote, Brits abroad for more than 15 years could not, so it would have needed 1.7 million...

Had all 3.3 million EU nationals in the UK been able to vote, it would have been extremely close or just about Remain (assuming 50% bothers to show up and not all vote Remain cos, well some wouldn't) but of course they didn't want that to happen.

Cheers for the clarification. I thought it was closer than that, so yeah don't mind me.

I'll get that sweet, sweet duty free at least on my return!

I thought the last ROI referendums were really well ran and it thought it was super cool a lot of people flew over to vote.

Lizardwoman's approved prorogation already. Democracy was an interesting experiment, eh?

It's official.

So for how long will the parliament be suspended?

The note says october 14th.

The note says october 14th.

I wonder why the 14th October, why not just fuck it off until 1st November, you know, just to be sure.

What a fucking mess, and just so depressing.

So there's time for a no confidence vote, but no legislation

At that stage whats the advantage to Bojo ?