Notices by Philip C James (philipcjames@mas.to)

@CloudyMrs Glad to see that through it all you've retained your sense of humour.

@CloudyMrs

A little fatalistic. Are you going to 'lie back and think of Scotland'?

It's strange how little influence we have on the world, natural and artificial, individually yet when you add it all up, it moves mountains. Sometimes literally. Nothing will ever improve unless enough peeps make conscious efforts to achieve improvements.

@CloudyMrs

Far less so than his predecessor, the saintly Bercow... As far as I'm aware Hoyle has made but one substantial unconventional decision (but that was an egregious howler, selecting Labour's amendment to an SNP opposition-day motion).

The Speaker has limited power when the government has a good majority (by definition the usual case). Less blame attaches to Hoyle than to our failure to separate powers properly in Parliament, where the overtly political LOTH controls Commons business.

@ChrisMayLA6

Point of information, Mr Speaker...

According to my less-than-well-thumbed copy of Erskine May, there is a strict order of questions to the Prime Minister laid out in the Order Paper for the day and Mr Speaker was simply following the protocol and calling those listed on that Order Paper.

It was not a Commons debate as such - it was Questions to the Prime Minister and most back-bench MPs have to wait weeks for a chance to ask a PMQ. Unfair to pre-empt!

https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/86044/Html?subType=Standard#_idTextAnchor001