Wednesday’s farce and chaos after Speaker allowed Labour to ‘hijack’ SNP’s opposition day motion calling for Gaza ceasefire leads to ‘Early Day Motion’
Fifty-five MPs – and counting – from the SNP and Conservative parties, plus one independent, have signed a motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle this morning, including more than half of the SNP’s Westminster MPs, after last night’s fiasco in which Hoyle broke parliamentary protocol to allow a Labour amendment to enter the debate and derail the SNP’s ‘Opposition Day’ motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Labour’s amendment, which watered down a motion condemning Israel’s war crimes in Gaza into an Israel-friendly version that gave the apartheid regime an effective veto over any ceasefire, should have been ruled out by the government’s own attempted amendment, leading to a straight fight between the SNP and Tory versions. But Hoyle – allegedly under threat by Labour whips of removal under a Labour government – allowed Labour’s amendment to stand. It passed without a formal vote after Tory and SNP MPs stormed out in protest amid chants calling for the return of Hoyle’s predecessor John Bercow. SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said last night he would ‘take significant convincing’ to believe it was tolerable for Hoyle to remain in the role.
The Speaker position is held during a parliament until death or resignation, but a large proportion of the Commons signing the motion would be likely to put immense pressure on Hoyle to step down. His position already looks untenable after he allowed Keir Starmer to hijack a vote on a situation in which some 34,000 Palestinian civilians have been murdered and hundreds more are being killed each day.
Update: in the few minutes since this article was published, the number of MPs has risen to 57.
SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as it is and not what the Establishment wants you to hear – and can afford to without hardship – please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal or here to set up a monthly donation via GoCardless (SKWAWKBOX will contact you to confirm the GoCardless amount). Thanks for your solidarity so SKWAWKBOX can keep doing its job.
If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.
The move to allow the Labour´s motion was clearly partisan and he has to go. He is a Labour MP and his decision clearly benefited the Labour´s leadership.
The Tories have a majority in the House, it is to good an opportunity to miss to elect as Speaker of the House a fellow Tory.
If he was under pressure, then he could have threatened to reveal that fact if they did not back off.
Starmer has to go to. Bullyoing is supposedly not allowed by MPs, yet this was the worst case I have ever heard of because of its effect on the constitution. It shows what Starmer would be like in Number 10!
It shows what Starmer would be like in Number 10!
Damn straight!! What many of us have been warning about since 2019, and keef couldn’t even hold his piss until the upcoming election.
No, he just HAD to make sure his Israeli backers get their money’s worth.
If this doesn’t make people wise up I’m jiggered if I know what will.
Actually going out of his – and😭centuries of protocol’s way in order to permit a foreign state to continue with it’s subjugation and genocide of another’s.
That’s what keef’s always been about.
Control freakery at it’s most wanton.
And for those that think they know what’s coming if that greasy bastard’s elected…You don’t even know the half of it.
Dunno where that emoji in my previous post came from.
Grim times ahead, unless people get wise.
Very grim.
I think I know what is coming Toffee. If Starmer becomes the next PM, fascism will raise in Britain. Because what I have observed by looking at Spanish and Italian politics is:
– If a conservative government imposes austerity, its voters will carry on voting for the Conservative Party or change to vote for a Social Democratic Party
– When a so called “Social Democratic Government” imposes austerity about half its voters turn to fascism, since a Conservative Party offers them no hope
I was sad and angry at the situation. This important vote which is the first step in pressuring Israel got completely eclipsed in the evening news since the focus shifted from a potential “UK Parliament calls for immediate ceasefire” headline to “chaos in the commons”. What should have been about war crimes being committed in Gaza and the UK officially callung for it to end became about the inner conflicts of a bunch of overpaid men-children.
I’m really angry.
Sir Keir ‘Chaos” Starmer. He’s the Trilateral Commission’s new Liz Truss.
So that’s where the Truss fund ended up.
The US faces global fury after vetoing Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN ( here). Starmer mounts business as usual to affect the same thing here.
He’s not clever and not subtle.
The HoC Privileges Committee is tasked to complete an ‘urgent and rapid’ investigation into the possibly contemptuous behaviour of Sir Keir Weazel-Words Starmer. Fantastic.
Neale Hanvey is one of the most virtuous and ethical forces in the HoC. Almost Corbyn-ian in his integrity, this former oncology nurse director and author is a man I admire intensely.
To all the Red Wall brexiteers did you really vote to leave the EU only to become a slave of the USA, welcome to the plantation, your chains are over there
To all those remainiacs who could not see the EU was equally enslaved by the Yanks and the Banks, welcome to your greatest creation ‘Jews Committing Genocide ‘ you must be ever so proud
As for our so called representatives, the MSM and Toilet papers, simple question ‘who do you work for’ because it’s not the likes of us
Betrayal of our democracy must still be a hanging offence, Shirley
Meanwhile, here is some additional comment related to the latest Skwawkbox article about that thirty five trillion in savings the European elites are talking about:
https://tomluongo.me/2024/02/20/why-war-bonds-are-making-their-return-in-europe/
“Eurobonds, issued through the European Commission, of this type are another way of handing that authority to Brussels, bypassing member state central banks and legislatures……..
…….It never stops with these people. There’s always a convenient Russian or Chinese bogeyman lurking behind every headline. But the underlying theme is to keep the money flowing into NATO. Trump’s comments on standing aside if Putin attacked a NATO country that didn’t pay its way were used by all of them to breathlessly support MOAR NATO.
But, in the end, this is just about the exercise of raw power against domestic populations.”
————————————————————
Question is: How long before their Uni-party equivalents in the UK introduce something similar?
You will own nothing and be happy……or else.
The pro-Palistine protests have had an effect, New New Labour have been forced to lie about their policies.
BREAKING NEWS – .30p Lee has been suspended from the Tory Party for racist slur.
Lee Anderson suspended by Tories as he refuses to apologise for ‘racist’ slur on Sadiq Khan
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-lee-anderson-suspended-tories-32203220
Oh dear. The dead cats being slammed onto the table to distract discussion are getting so thin and threadbare its becoming an embarrassment.
Off topic:
Whether it will help, or not, this is certainly a surprise!
AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene AGREE on Freeing Assange
Again, slightly off topic due to comments not being active on current reported events (yet again):
Scott Ritter – A Reflection on Duty and Conscience: Aaron Bushnell