Timeline for If the elected UK parliament falls into disarray, can the reigning monarch take over?
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 20:34 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | @Schwern: thank you; I've made some minor changes. One further question: I'm not sure what "There's technically no need to form a government" means in the "Hung Parliament" section. Do you mean "coalition" instead of "government"? | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 19:17 | history | edited | Steve Melnikoff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Minor corrections.
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | Schwern | @SteveMelnikoff Thank you for the corrections, I appreciate them. I think I fixed most of them except for the issues with "dissolve" which I'm a little hazy about, and the extra detail about VoNC which I don't follow how it's relevant to the answer. But I encourage you to edit the answer yourself, please. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 18:31 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Peter Taylor and Steve Melnikoff's corrections, and a juciy story about Henry VIII
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 18:24 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
PeterTaylor's corrections, and a juciy story about Henry VIII
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 18:24 | comment | added | Schwern | @PeterTaylor "Royal Assent Act": Thank you, I misunderstood the article; should have read the act. "Her Majesty's Government": I'll just take out anything about the Cabinet. How's that? | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 15:44 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | (5) And finally, a nitpick: British Acts of Parliament, unlike American ones, don't use "of" before the year. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 15:43 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | (3) The terms "dissolution" and "dissolve" refer to Parliament, not the government. A government resigns or (in theory) can be dismissed. (4) You mention the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, but I feel it's important to mention that if a government loses a VoNC, a new government must then win a VoC within 14 days. Only if that fails to happen is there a general election (well, or if the 2/3 of the Commons votes for one at any time). | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 15:37 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | (2) To expand on @PeterTaylor's comment: the only effect of the Royal Assent Act 1967 is that it became sufficient for Royal Assent to be notified to each house by its speaker. The alternative, which is still used at the end of each parliamentary session (prorogation), is that a commission of Lords (normally 5) announces the Royal Assent to the House of Lords with the Commons present as well. In both cases, the actual Assent is the same, namely the Queen issues "Letters Patent under the Great Seal signed with Her Majesty’s own hand". | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | Good answer; some corrections: (1) in the section on Orders in Council, you also mention Orders of Council, which are not the same thing. Was this a typo? | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 11:13 | comment | added | pjc50 | +1 for mentioning the Dismissal, which is the best analogue to this situation. Also please leave in "crash out of the EU", since the government's own disaster planning refers to how undesirable this scenario is. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 8:00 | comment | added | Chris Melville | Please revise your wording “crash out of the EU” to something more politically neutral. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 0:13 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2018 at 0:07 | comment | added | Schwern | @WS2 I didn't know about that, very good! I did some research and it seems the process was formalized in 2004. I added a section on it. Thank you. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 0:06 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add a section on Order in Council.
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 23:20 | comment | added | WS2 | You have not mentioned an Order in Council. This is an instrument of the monarch on the advice of her Privy Council, composed of senior politicians of all parties, who have taken a special oath. In 2000 during the tanker-drivers' dispute with oil refineries blockaded and petrol supply restricted to doctors and NHS staff, Tony Blair asked the Queen for an "Order in Council" permitting, without Parliament's consent, the requisition of privately owned vehicles to be driven by soldiers. I see some possibility for an Order in Council as a solution should a chaotic Brexit situation arise. | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 16:57 | comment | added | Valorum | Hung parliament don't happen "all the time". They've happened three times in the last century. Not unheard-of, but not all that common either | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 4:23 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |