Next week is important but it will take something special to stop.
When they call a GE it gets suspended for them to canvas ect and stops the outgoing party putting stuff through to affect the next goverment.
The sitting goverment just gets on with it till the result of the GE comes through.
No new buisness , votes ect as by the time they are passed into law , a new make up of parliment could be in place making it a complete waste of time.
The queens speech is normally debated for 5 days afterwards so that leaves a week before brexit, for anybody to try and get something on the table and passed not normally enough time and the goverment has stuff they could fill that time slot easily to make it even harder.
If its not stopped next week ,he has played his cards well, saying that as casual viewer of it i was saying this well back in this thread so you would think full time MPs would have been ready and waiting for it.
I really fear we are going to get a Boris goverment if he deals with the brexit party in the right way to win an election.
Hope he balls it up, like i say despite my still brexit supporting views i see him as a far bigger danger.
Yeah I realise Parliament closes down for the election, but I wouldn't have thought it would close down immediately it was announced. But as I said, I don't know that for sure. What I do know for sure is that Parliament has a speaker who will make sure that no deal becomes part of the agenda. How you get from there to getting the EU to agree a further extension is another matter. But what you can bank on is the remain dominant house doing their level best to make it happen.
When we come out of all this I think you'll see a different parliament given the number of new precedents that will have been set, plus some new fixed rules and regulations for the speaker.
The Guardian sums it up tbf......
“Boris Johnson’s
plan to prorogue parliament ahead of a Queen’s speech on 14 October is intended to provoke parliamentarians into blocking a no-deal Brexit, or triggering a general election through a vote of no confidence. Both are feasible in the time available.
The last time parliament stepped in to
block no deal earlier in the year, the necessary legislation was passed in just three days. Johnson has deliberately left enough time for parliament to seize control again. That’s because Johnson’s real objective is to use Brexit to win a general election, rather than use a general election to secure Brexit. By forcing the hands of his opponents, he has defined the terrain for a “people versus parliament” election. Expect him to run on “Back Boris, Take Back Britain”. He will say that the only way to definitely leave on 31 October is to give him a parliamentary majority to do so. The man of Eton, Oxford and the Telegraph will position himself as the leader of the people against the hated establishment and “remainer elite”.
Johnson’s electoral strategy is simple: unite the Brexit-supporting right of politics behind him while remainers are fractured across Labour, the SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Since the day he took office, Johnson has been acting to consolidate the votes of leave supporters behind him. From
Brexit party supporters to leave-backing Labour voters, Johnson has sought to create a winning electoral coalition.”.....
