@JoshuaHolland It's wise to have the #HeadOfState and the #HeadOfGovernment be different people.

#WestminsterSystem

@mos_8502 @alda
Or the GG could invite someone else in the House to attempt to form a government. Maybe there's someone outside the regular R or D leadership who could hold the confidence of a cross-party majority of members (probably not, given current US polarisation).

It's good to have someone neutral with the job of keeping the system going.

#canpol #uspol #WestminsterSystem

Never forget, you win an UK #election by losing the vote in a "specific and limited way"...

You can't understand our #politics without understanding the extreme implications of this.

Read about how this explains our economic+political history and crises over the past decades. And what it means for the UK's #UniquelyInferiorConstitution

https://twitter.com/RRRR4tothe4/status/1584622635429769216

#ukpolitics #constitutionalreform #constitutionalcrisis #Constitution #WestminsterSystem #westminster

@NoBeret @pdk @adam @Johncdvorak Yes, that protocol comes from the French National Assembly, in the time of the Revolution.

In the #WestminsterSystem , the governing party is normally to the Speaker's right, regardless of that party's ideology.

#parliament

"Meanwhile, the person who gets the palaces, the bowing and scraping, the bands and the guards, gets nothing else. The British monarch is both the head of state and that state’s most closely watched prisoner, forbidden to say or do anything remotely human, let alone political."

#DavidFrum

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/queen-elizabeth-death-trump-british-monarchy/671386/

#WestminsterSystem
#ukpol #canpol
#constitutional #monarchy

@keithzg
"But it’s difficult to imagine any Canadian prime minister subjecting themselves to this level of scrutiny — or more than one or two of their own backbenchers having the nerve to put them through it. Yet in the U.K., thanks to powerful parliamentary committees, less centralized control and a much stronger tradition of ministerial accountability, that’s exactly what happened."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jason-vandenbeukel-boris-johnsons-imminent-demise-shows-mps-can-matter

#WestminsterSystem #ukpol #canpol
#NationalPost

That is apparently a quote from #WilliamSelinger , found at a review here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/reclaiming-constitutional-thinking-william-selingers-parliamentarism/

#WestminsterSystem #MmeDeStaël

Are you aware there is a serious challenge to the Canadian constitution at the moment? The #Trudeau ministry is denying #ParliamentarySupremacy .

“The Trudeau government’s decision to use Canada’s independent judicial system to defy the House of Commons orders undermines the rule of law and our parliamentary democracy. This should concern every Canadian,” Chong said in a statement.

Seemingly over a trivial matter too.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/commons-speaker-intends-to-ask-court-to-strike-down-government-lawsuit-challenging-parliaments-right-to-know

#canpol #WestminsterSystem

@whiskeysailor @alex You know, if you had a parliamentary government it would be easy to oust the executive...

#WestminsterSystem #parliament

@whiskeysailor So the new #covid19 bill includes money for California high-speed rail too?

You know, if you switched to a parliamentary system, your legislation would be much cleaner.

#uspol #WestminsterSystem