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Old 20-04-2017, 01:34 PM #24
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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed View Post
So what happened to 'The Fixed Term Parliament Act' that came into place in 2011?
A 2/3 vote in commons can be used to override it. Though I would imagine the intention of this was to safeguard against incompetent governments... rather than for the current govt. to be able to trigger a GE fully expecting itself to be voted back in "as is". Loopholes, innit.
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