Thread by @fascinatorfun

“Eadie, representing the Gov, deliberately chose to make a virtue of his own mediocrity as he appeared to spend the morning doing everything other than explain why the English courts had been right to find the prorogation lawful.”
⁦@JohnJCrace⁩ 👏👏 theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

Continuing to channel Jane Austen in masterful understatements @JohnJCrace says

3/ “If parliament hadn’t wanted to be prorogued, why wasn’t it doing something to stop being prorogued? He still hadn’t quite grasped that parliament can’t do anything when it is prorogued. Fairly basic stuff, you’d have thought.”

4/. O’Neill :”This was a prorogation with a purpose to hijack democracy. And the judges and the courts shouldn’t take it lying down. Though a good lie down was just what they needed come the close. It had been an exhausting two hours for everyone.“