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The Speaker of the House of Commons has suspended proceedings pending the counting of the indicative vote ballots
But nobody's collected the mace from the middle of the room, and by tradition the mace is only there while parliament is in session
So the tories are now trying to raise points of order to an empty chair
ukpol
@vector you actually do have one of those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
also that did indeed happen
several times in fact, most recent in 2018
ukpol
@troubleMoney Learn something new everyday.
ukpol
@troubleMoney If they had the mace thing here in ‘Merca, some ornery back bencher would steal it. Good thing y’all are a more civilized folk, and would never do anything like that.