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Post by markgoodair on Jul 12, 2023 6:54:53 GMT
Does the 6 month rule apply to members of Parliament? Asking for a friend. Unfortunately not.
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Post by greenhert on Jul 12, 2023 7:02:39 GMT
Does the 6 month rule apply to members of Parliament? Asking for a friend. Unfortunately not. A similar "12 month rule" does apply to the House of Lords though.
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Post by ricmk on Jul 12, 2023 7:13:50 GMT
A similar "12 month rule" does apply to the House of Lords though. Good job she didn’t get her peerage then!
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 12, 2023 7:45:27 GMT
She last voted on 26 April, so even if a six month rule existed, it wouldn’t apply to her.
Given that she’s in good health and evidently capable of working (given her other activities) she should be utterly ashamed of her record of late.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 12, 2023 8:27:45 GMT
Turns out this is what she’s been doing:
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Post by r34t on Jul 12, 2023 8:59:35 GMT
Turns out this is what she’s been doing: Remaindered at a £1 by Bonfire Night
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Post by European Lefty on Jul 12, 2023 9:27:41 GMT
Probably for use as kindling.....*
*Or should that be kindle-ing?
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Post by johnloony on Jul 12, 2023 10:03:17 GMT
I’m slightly annoyed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer didn’t respond to her announcement of her immediate resignation a month ago by appointing her to the Thingy of Wherever anyway, just like he did with the Sinn Fein MPs who resigned. In their case, there would have been a mutual understanding that the CoE would have to appoint the SF MPs to be Thingy, even though they ostensibly said they wouldn’t accept it. In the case of Dorries, the CoE could have been slightly deliberately accidentally careless in making the appointment before specifically receiving the letter requesting it.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 12, 2023 10:16:35 GMT
You just had to stir the Cobblepot didn't you? You all need to stop talking in Riddles I have Skandar some of the recent posts in this thread and I don’t know what you’re all Wardrobing on about. I’m not familiar with the Batman stories so I don’t recognise the characters you are mentioning. So technically it might be Narnia of my business but in the tradition of the forum I thought I ought to put in my Pevensie-worth and Beaver about with a few irrelevant puns - Witch may or may not be completely Eustace - but it is better than just Lion about.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 12, 2023 10:47:17 GMT
Does the 6 month rule apply to members of Parliament? Asking for a friend. Unfortunately not. It would cause havoc for the Sinn Fein MPs if there were. Some people have occasionally suggested that there should be such a rile, specifically for that reason (i.e. to force the SF MPs to attend properly or not bother standing.).
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 12, 2023 11:11:25 GMT
In practice, they would surely just attend once every six months (or whatever the stipulation was) whilst keeping to abstention at all other times.
And at the end of the day, they were elected with that as part of their platform - Dorries and other absentee MPs were not.
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Post by WJ on Jul 12, 2023 11:38:27 GMT
I think it would be more on brand for SF to just force by-elections every 6 months and crash the system.
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Post by Terry Weldon on Jul 12, 2023 11:39:35 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 12, 2023 12:24:50 GMT
"The lingering member for Mid Bedfordshire".
I like it. Maybe this sort of nomenclature should be applied to all MPs
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Post by minionofmidas on Jul 12, 2023 15:20:31 GMT
I’m slightly annoyed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer didn’t respond to her announcement of her immediate resignation a month ago by appointing her to the Thingy of Wherever anyway, just like he did with the Sinn Fein MPs who resigned. In their case, there would have been a mutual understanding that the CoE would have to appoint the SF MPs to be Thingy, even though they ostensibly said they wouldn’t accept it. In the case of Dorries, the CoE could have been slightly deliberately accidentally careless in making the appointment before specifically receiving the letter requesting it. not too late imho
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Post by johnloony on Jul 12, 2023 15:37:08 GMT
I think it would be more on brand for SF to just force by-elections every 6 months and crash the system. Maybe that's why there hasn't ever been such a 6-month rule for the House of Commons. Everybody knows (and most people respect, or recognise, or whatever the verb is) that Sinn Fein MPs have a specific mandate not to attend. If there were a 6-month non-attendance rule, then Sinn Fein would adjust to it one way or another. I think the voters would get fed up if they just crashed out and had by-elections every 6 (or 8 or 9) months, so they would probably have a policy of attending and being disruptive in whatever way they thought appropriate (there would also be the issue of them swearing the oath to accept their seats in the first place) - just as they eventually did for the Dáil.
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Post by graham on Jul 12, 2023 16:21:11 GMT
Were Sunak inclined to hold the election on May 2nd next year , it would imply a Dissolution in mid- March. If Dorries delays her resignation until mid- October, the Tories might be able to justify not moving the writ for a by election at all.
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Post by johnloony on Jul 12, 2023 16:34:32 GMT
Were Sunak inclined to hold the election on May 2nd next year , it would imply a Dissolution in mid- March. If Dorries delays her resignation until mid- October, the Tories might be able to justify not moving the writ for a by election at all. That would only work if we knew in advance that the general election is going to be in May rather than October 2024. If there are vacancies in the House of Commons in October, November, going into the new year, then it wouldn't be fair to delay moving the writs just on the off-chance that there "might" be a snap election earlier than expected.
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Post by graham on Jul 12, 2023 16:41:26 GMT
Were Sunak inclined to hold the election on May 2nd next year , it would imply a Dissolution in mid- March. If Dorries delays her resignation until mid- October, the Tories might be able to justify not moving the writ for a by election at all. That would only work if we knew in advance that the general election is going to be in May rather than October 2024. If there are vacancies in the House of Commons in October, November, going into the new year, then it wouldn't be fair to delay moving the writs just on the off-chance that there "might" be a snap election earlier than expected. But it would be reasonable for the Government to keep the seat vacant until the New Year - and by that time Sunak may have firmed up his intentions re-election timing. By mid-January he may have decided to opt for an election at the beginning of May . Failure to move the writ, of course, might well spark speculation as to the election date.
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Post by iainbhx on Jul 12, 2023 16:46:36 GMT
Turns out this is what she’s been doing: Page 76 "And now we come onto liars"
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