Theresa May understood to be delaying Brexit deal vote, will speak at 3:30pm - Polidicks

Not that shit is getting done with it there anyway.

That was the point of picking it up in protest.

The US House has a ceremonial mace too, it forms part of a rare disciplinary procedure called 'presenting the mace' where the sergeant-at-arms holds it in front of unruly lawmakers and implicitly threatens to beat their ass with it if they don't shut their fucking mouth. Here's a video of Maxine Waters in 1994 almost getting the mace presented to her. Australia's ceremonial mace is mainly used for bants: In May 1914, Labor MP William Higgs played a practical joke on the House by hiding the mace under one of the opposition frontbenches. It was not found for two hours, and police were called in as it was assumed to have been stolen.[5] After initially denying his role in the incident,[6] Higgs apologised to his colleagues the following week, stating he had acted in "a spirit of frivolity". His admission that he was "entirely to blame" was met with cheers.

Yes, I am aware.

I just got back from a short work shift, what did I miss? Anything happened besides the Mace getting picked up? Did we reach some kind of consensus or is everyone just pissed off more than usual? Is there a lead to something hopeful?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/a4wujk/john_bercow_seems_to_have_just_singlehandedly/

Oh, cool, good to know that I'm not insane and it turns out giant ceremonial golden magic beating sticks are just a totally normal part of civilized lawmaking.

So, did they say yes to that...?

Not quite. TM spokesperson said roughly "fuck off". Then Corbyn + other opposition called an SO24 debate which is basically an emergency 3-hour debate on a pressing subject, given the Speaker's approval which seems likely given Bercow.

I mean it wasn't that long ago dude were drawing sabers, I've seen people also suggest the mace represents the distance that there must be between people so they can't get their rapiers out and have at it, but that might just be a myth.

It would definitely get more things done.

I know that in Canada it is still Parlimentary tradition, if not outright regulation, that members/senators may not speak with anything in their hands (except for maybe sheets of paper they're reading off of), and it all stems from the era when MPs would wear swords, and there was the risk that if an MP was allowed to talk while holding something in their hands, they'd at some point draw their sword to make a dramatic point and then continue talking and flail the sword around, potentially striking nearby people. At least that's what I remember from high school social studies class.

Amazing bizarre moment on Newsnight just now: pro-EU Tory MP Anna Soubry challenges Labour MP Richard Burgon to call for a vote of no confidence in Theresa May https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1072268883065659393

If I'm reading this right, tomorrow Labour is going to have a 3-hour emergency meeting about this whole fiasco, not exactly sure what they're going to do. Jeremy Corbyn is also being asked by a lot of members in his party to sign a letter of no confidence on May, with the SNP adding that they would back him if he did; but the party also says, I think by Corbyn's decision, is that they'll wait first for May to come back from her oncoming trip to Europe (where she's going to see if she can do something about the Irish Backstop one more time (which if I'm not mistaken, everyone there said no one will renegotiations are impossible)) and then make a decision whether to sign it or not.

There will be a three-hour emergency debate in Parliament tomorrow on the decision to delay the vote. I don't think they're gonna actually be looking to take any actual action though https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1072232981069291521

What's more pathetic? This situation or the one time journalists found Sean Spencer hiding in the bushes in the White House lawn?

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1072523518829576193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1072523518829576193&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flive%2Fuk-politics-parliaments-46506969 'The letters are going in' is officially the new 'tanks are 30 minutes away'