The NI assembly (or parts thereof) decided to sit today, to prevent the same-sex marriage and abortion measures being imposed by Westminster at midnight, but it turns out they can't even agree to nominate and appoint a new speaker required for business to take place, all the MLAs have walked out leaving an empty chamber...
I think much of this dysfunctionality has happened since Brexit.
Prior to this farce, UK politics was reasonably stable with MP's only resigning when they did something really silly (/honest) or were caught fiddling their expenses, not en-masse and on principal.
The reason is obvious. The result of the bastardised poll that very few wanted in the fist place was so close as to spilt not only the country but every group that touch it (including friends and families).
With traditional L/General elections there is often more choice (not just a rigid binary thing), can be reversed in 5 years or less and so it isn't a 'once in a lifetime' type thing.
NOTHING about Brexit has been good, straightforward or done anything towards making this country or it's inhabitants stronger or more confident about the future.
That's not only because of how poorly planned it was (assuming it was at all), but how badly it was conducted and has been rolled out so far. Hardly surprising given only 1/3rd of the electorate voted *for* it, whatever the 'it' was that they voted for personally.
Brexit really is the answer to a question few were asking.
Cheers, T i m
There might just be a reason for those Irish jokes...
No, just more incompetence of their own making and a "green" policy that paid people to heat the countryside air.
An in the case of the rest of the GB, remainer MPs who do not want to respect the referendum result, but who will not agree to a general election either. Meanwhile, parliament limps on with no majority in any direction, trapped by the FTPA and MPs who daren't face a public vote on the way they've acted.
SteveW
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