More widely, though, there is less tolerance of even low-level leaks since Mr Johnson took over as PM.

Wheras King James the Seventh Being a profest papist did assume the Regall power and acted as King without ever takeing the oath required by law wherby the King at his access to the government is obliged to swear To maintain the protestant religion and to rule the people according to the laudable lawes And Did By the advyce of wicked and evill Counsellers Invade the fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdome And altered it from a legall limited monarchy to ane Arbitrary Despotick power and in a publick proclamation asserted ane absolute power to cass annull and dissable all the lawes particularly arraigning the lawes Establishing the protestant religion and did Exerce that power to the subversion of the protestant Religion and to the violation of the lawes and liberties of the Kingdome

It's all starting to sound very 17th century over here. They're starting to talk about the "Claim of Rights 1689"...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1689/28?view=plain

Wheras King James the Seventh Being a profest papist did assume the Regall power and acted as King without ever takeing the oath required by law wherby the King at his access to the government is obliged to swear To maintain the protestant religion and to rule the people according to the laudable lawes And Did By the advyce of wicked and evill Counsellers Invade the fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdome And altered it from a legall limited monarchy to ane Arbitrary Despotick power and in a publick proclamation asserted ane absolute power to cass annull and dissable all the lawes particularly arraigning the lawes Establishing the protestant religion and did Exerce that power to the subversion of the protestant Religion and to the violation of the lawes and liberties of the Kingdome

Protest, ORIGIN
late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘make a solemn declaration’): from Old French protester, from Latin protestari, from pro- ‘forth, publicly’ + testari ‘assert’ (from testis ‘witness’).

It’s all out war in the Conservative party this morning, after the former Tory Prime Minister John Major announced that he was joining a legal action (started by the Remain campaigner Gina Miller) which will argue that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament was unlawful.
In his statement Major grandly stated that:
‘I promised to that, if the Prime Minister prorogued parliament in order to prevent Members from opposing his Brexit plans, I would seek judicial review of his action.’

And went on to add that his experience of having ‘served in government as a minister and prime minister’ would allow him to assist the legal action.
That’s certainly one way to put it, though Mr Steerpike isn’t sure Major’s own experience as PM will exactly strengthen the Remain campaigners’ claim that Boris Johnson is acting out of turn…

Back in 1997, John Major came under intense criticism after he called for the prorogation of parliament, which conveniently buried a report about to be published on the ‘cash for questions’ scandal. According to the Guardian at the time, Major was warned by Paddy Ashdown that it would be ‘deeply damaging to the reputation of the Government if people thought parliament had been sent away 19 days early in order to prevent the report being published.’

Perhaps Major can explain to the courts why it was fine for him to prorogue parliament back then, but it’s not fine for Boris Johnson to do so now?

Here we go. :-(
29/3//19>31/10/19>31/1/20?
Does anyone believe it will actually happen?

Ok. Do I understand it right that the UK now will still be a member of the EU for at least 6 months more?
Well, why rush:)

The debate on our current crisis has concentrated on proroguing, but it is no more than the instrument of what has occurred: the executive has moved against the parliament. Not tricked it, outwitted it, bullied it, or won it round – moved explicitly against it. You cannot find precedent for this in the debates surrounding the Falklands war, or the national government of 1931; you’re squarely on the territory of the English civil war. To watch it happen and accede to it with silence would be unpatriotic, an act of bad citizenship.

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