Just sat through one of the most surreal speeches of my 4 years in parliament after Boris moved a motion to end this zombie parliament through a General Election on December 12th...
The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (Jeremy Corbyn) urged the Prime Minister to deliver the programme outlined in the Queen's Speech that he and Labour had just voted against...
Corbyn complained about Channel 4 claims that govt had talks with US pharma companies about the price of drugs despite recently demanding that @MattHancock intervene about the price of #Orkambi, a groundbreaking drug treating #cysticfibrosis supplied by a US company...
Jeremy Corbyn then claimed that students (essentially the top 50% in academic terms) couldn't work out how to vote by post, or vote at home or indeed vote in the dark...
Labour MP Seema Malhotra made a valiant effort to explain how trying to hold a General Election was an act of voter suppression...
Seema Malhotra then explained how December elections were particularly suppressive despite having been elected as MP for Feltham & Heston in a by election in December 2011...
Jeremy Corbyn claimed that the Supreme Court found the PM 'guilty' having clearly watched too much Judge John Deedes repeats as that's a criminal ruling not civil which determined prorogation 'unlawful', not illegal and certainly not 'guilty'...
The Speaker allowed a long, largely irrelevant speech by Paula Sherriff couched as an intervention to be heard without interruption unlike his normal approach (though the subject matter of language was important - though clearly an inconsistent application)...
Jeremy Corbyn wants Boris to take no deal off the table at the end of the transition period in December 2020 which would either mean renegotiating the deal with the EU or binding a future parliament...
Corbyn made a number of points criticising the Withdrawal Agreement Bill whilst not wanting to allow time to make them at a time which would allow proper scrutiny and possible amendments to that Bill...
Labour's entire argument as why not to have a General Election is because they do not trust Boris Johnson to run the country. Their solution to this? Let Boris run the country for a while longer...
And Jeremy Corbyn wonders why his own backbenchers couldn't be bothered to turn up to hear him speak
