Boris Johnson: the new PM to energise the country?

aenimiac

Right wing commentators and politicians don't support Corbyn. Who knew?

Sonic67

Moggster:

The five best moments from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s government debut | Coffee House

Here are five of the best moments from his first session at the dispatch box:

Resign!

As he began, one MP shouted that he should ‘resign’. Quickly the Moggster responded that ‘It’s a bit early.’

Nanny

Asked if she would be helping him in his new job. The new Leader of the House, parried back that:

‘Thank you Mr Speaker and thank you to the Shadow Leader for her incisive list of questions, and indeed the suggestion that I should replace nanny with the staff in the Leader’s Office. I think they might be bemused if six children trotted in with me and expected to be looked after by House of Commons staff, so I won’t go down that route.’

Prorogation

On a more serious note, Rees-Mogg also mounted an impassioned defence of the government’s right to take Britain out of the EU without a deal, even possibly through prorogation. Mogg noted that while he took the primacy of parliament seriously, MPs had already passed laws to leave the EU when they triggered the Article 50 notification, and if anything, this would take precedence over any motion MPs passed against no deal, saying:

‘This House passed into law the Withdrawal Act and the Article 50 Act and we only speak our view by legislation, we do not speak our view by mere motion and mere motion cannot and must not overturn statute law.’

John Bercow

In a possible sign of clashes to come, Speaker John Bercow was also the focus of some light-hearted criticism from Rees-Mogg. When Mogg answered a question on how much notice parliament would be given for government business,  the new Leader of the Commons remarked that ‘Mr Speaker you said yourself that convention had to evolve, and this is one of those conventions that has evolved’ – a clear dig at Bercow’s willingness to ditch precedence when it comes to Britain’s departure from the EU.

Mock Tudor

And finally, Mogg also found time to give the SNP a history lesson during the session. The SNP’s Pete Wishart began by reminding the man known as ‘the Honourable Member for the early 20th Century’, that ‘he’s Leader of the House of Commons, not the House of Plantagenet, or the House of Tudor.’

Rees-Mogg responded by reminding Wishart that ‘I would point out that the House of Commons predates the House of Tudor, it started in 1265’ before relating a brief history of the Commons.

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When Bercow cites some obscure bollocks from Hansard in 1873 to stop brexit, JRM can point out he was both there, and successfully argued against it as a youthful Victorian MP.

Greg Hook

I thought people were rejoicing that he had filled his cabinet with leavers? That post above seems to suggest there are more remainers in there?

I'm looking forward to Boris as PM. It will either be a refreshing change and work wonders or a total disaster, nothing in between.

Also, no one should be under any illusion that a no deal Brexit will ever get through the Government. The Tories have such as a slim majority as it is. It just won't ever happen.

I'm not right wing and I definitely do not support that idiot. He is single handedly destroying the Labour party and because the Unions love him, he is set to stay. Which the Tories will hope he does.

aenimiac

The people in the post I quoted are all right wing though. I was just paraphrasing Sonic's earlier post dismissing criticism of Johnson due it coming from a left wing source.

Goooner

I think it’s not a case of which way the new cabinet members voted in the red, just that they are signed up now, behind leaving with no deal.

Is it not a case that a new law has to get through Parliament to prevent no deal as otherwise we leave without one by default?