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Genre: News & Politics
Date of upload: Apr 16, 2024 ^^
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Thing you missed? Where do we start?
- How new Speakers are dragged to their seat
- The bag for member's bills on the back of the Speaker's chair
- When you want to ask a question in Quesiton Time, you "bob"
- The practice of divisions
- Which members have priority seating in the House
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Heck, a brief explanation on how a bill goes through Parliament to become law might be a good one.
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Up there with the quirkiness of Black Rod is "Le Roy le veult!", i.e. the absolutely hilarious manner of which the monarch signifies to the House of Commons that he or she has given their royal assent to a bill passed by both houses, therby passing it into the law.
This is done at the closing of each parliamentary session (also an occasion where the Commons are summoned to the Lords). The Clerk of the Crown reads out the title of each bill which has been given assent, and then the Clerk of the Parliaments turns around to face the Commons and exclamates in old Norman French, for each bill:
"Le Roy le veult!" or "La Reyne le veult!" meaning "the King/Queen wills it!"
Norman French is still being used in the parliament of the UK over 500 years after the parliament stopped conducting its business in French. Oh you brits!
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@johnhughes2124
1 month ago
I believe that you missed the point where during the King's Speech they ritually search the basements beneath the Lords for gunpowder, and ritually take an MP hostage.
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