Norman Wells wrote:
On 27/09/2019 20:28, The Todal wrote:
On 27/09/2019 13:51, Norman Wells wrote:
On 27/09/2019 10:39, The Todal wrote:

Are you impressed by Boris's notorious words: "The whole September
session is a rigmarole introduced by girly swot Cameron to show the
public that MPs are earning their crust."?

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me, given that they've just got back
from their nice summer hols, and are about to have another three weeks
recess when they all go off to their jolly conferences at the seaside.

Lord Pannick correctly pointed out that the conference season is not a
fixture and can be abandoned at time of national crisis - as has
happened now. When the country is about to go to hell in a handcart, MPs
need to spend their time in Parliament not in a seaside hotel drinking
beer.

I don't recall any previous clamour at all for the conference recess to
be cancelled. But surely there would have been if your contention was true.

No. On the contrary, MPs were fully aware of the 31 October Brexit
deadline but thought it perfectly OK to go off on their jollies to
agreeably posh seaside hotels rather than to Westminster for 3 or 4
weeks, almost immediately after getting back from their summer hols.

It was only when Boris set about proroguing that faux indignation raised
its ugly head and they all got on their high horses saying how awful for
Parliament not to sit through.

Utter hypocrites, the lot of them.



You missed having trying to delay things for nearly 3 years.