My first attempt at speaking on Retained EU Law Bill thwarted as I had raised a question previously, and that counted as speech. Those are the rules - except I have seen so many do the same and not been stopped. Like the EU, the Lords is a 'rules-based system'. Until it's not.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1658213537049616403
Later on I got to have my say. Despite claims that amendments to the government’s EU Retained Law Bill are not about Brexit, and instead represent a mass outbreak of respect for sovereignty in the Lords, I begged to differ...
https://youtu.be/ZmC1Hf9ss0I
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1658213541197783046
...M'luds never mean popular sovereignty - always parliamentary. Which, in the case of unelected Lords, is even more ironic.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1658213544481943553
