News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Queen has more power over British law than we thought. Parent comment

Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by handelaar on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:02PM (#26084235)
You may have missed this but at one point Johnson was actively touting the notion of proroguing parliament indefinitely so that it could not meet and reject a plan to Brexit without any trade deal in place.

And then 48 hours later, as if by magic, that plan (which would have required the Queen to publicly assent to an overtly-political variation of current norms) suddenly vanished without trace or comment.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:26PM (#26085122)
Unfortunately this kind of proroguing has precedent in the Commonwealth since Stephen Harper (likely a friend of Boris) prorogued our (at the time minority gov't) parliament in 2008 to avoid an election that would have put a Liberal/NDP coalition in power.

Our governor general (and hence the monarchy) rubber stamped it then. I've never forgiven the institution.

[ Parent | on HN ]