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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by benlumen on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:16AM (#26087434)
What did you make of the debacle of the Fixed Term Parliament Act and the government being left unable to call a General Election in 2019 because of it?

Supposedly it removed the power of the Queen to dissolve parliament.

Lots of British people, me included, were deeply alarmed by it. Parliament was essentially rogue.

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by etrevino on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:39AM (#26088834)
I agree with you that it was a debacle. It was meant to hold together the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition and once that went to pot it should have been scrapped. I don't think that it removed the Queen's (technical) ability to dissolve Parliament, instead it removed the government's ability to ask her to dissolve Parliament. It locked Parliament into a situation where no one had the power to do anything more than keep the lights on. It was gross.

* Had the Queen tried to dissolve Parliament I think they would have ignored her.

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