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Having been debating with myself whether we are now in constitutional crisis territory. OTOH, if this passes, it will radically subvert the normal operation of the constitution, and take us into unpredictable territory. OTOH, Parliament is the master of its own procedures, and a
majority decision to change Commons Standing Orders is not, per se, unconstitutional. Griffith said that, in the UK's political constitution, what happens is constitutional.
On balance, I think we are heading towards a constitutional crisis. The argument that, so long as Parliament authorises it, anything is constitutional, is - and always has been - too simplistic. The essence of the current crisis is that the government cannot govern, but neither
can Parliament govern in its place. The constitutional course of action is for the government to be replaced, but MPs are not willing to bring that about. Hence, paralysis.
