Yep !Biffer wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:55 pmThere’s an argument in favour of rewriting the GFA due to the rise of the Alliance Party._Os_ wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:02 pm This is what Sunak needs to do (bit of a repost):
1. Whatever the privileges committee decides on Johnson goes to a vote in the commons. Sunak should push for maximum punishment, which is removal of the whip and a byelection. He should send Big Dog to the pound if he's at all able to do so. His only real threat is Big Dog, so if Sunak fails here there's a chance Big Dog returns.
2. Push through his NI deal. Make it a confidence vote, if the usual trouble makers try and vote against it remove the whip and begin the process of removing their Tory membership.
3. If the DUP insist on not forming a government in NI, start the process of amending the GFA so if one party consistently refuses to form a government another is asked until a government can be formed. Ratify it via an NI referendum if needed. Maybe that will force some movement.
Sunak probably still has a majority after all that. And "parliamentary sovereignty" which all these headbangers support, means if parliament are voting for it all with majorities then it's fine and good to go. It's all going to have to happen eventually anyway, would be better for the Tories if they did it sooner rather than later. For the rest of us the sooner this bullshit ends the better, although the Tories taking their time and being more damaged isn't all bad.
We should be trying to remove the sectarian veto, not encourage it.
Just keep it simple, & if two, or more parties can command a majority ,they can form a Government, regardless of Nationalist/Unionist or Other.