On 24/09/2019 16:49, Steve Walker wrote:
On 24/09/2019 16:03, Brian Gaff wrote:
So, Boris calls an election and everyone goes home again.
Â* Brian

The MPs won't let him call an election, despite the government having no
majority and being hemmed in on all sides by those same MPs and unable
to do anything.

And that's the true affront to democracy, greater even than shutting
down Parliament for just 4 or 5 days more than it would have been anyway.

It is absurd that Parliament, and in particular the Labour Party, is
using the Fixed-term Parliaments Act for purposes for which it was
clearly not intended when it was passed. It was never anticipated that
an opposition would ever support a lame duck government in office,
knowing full well that it is not in the country's interests to have a
non-functioning executive.

Labour should be ashamed that it puts its own self-interests before
those of the country.

They daren't allow an election, because it seems likely that Boris would
be returned with a majority.

Oh so democratic aren't they, making sure that they get to remain, even
though the people voted to leave, before the people are allowed to elect
a new government.

They're playing shabby games, showing that they're running ****-scared
of the electorate.