Government to ask Queen to suspend Parliament
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Source: BBC
The Queen will be asked by the government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says it will make way for Boris Johnson's new administration to hold a Queen's Speech - laying out the government's plans - on 14 October.
But it means MPs are unlikely to have time to pass any laws that could stop the prime minister taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on 31 October.
A No 10 source said: "It's time a new government and new PM set out a plan for the country after we leave the EU."
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49493632
The crazy bastard is doing it
EDIT: as a side note, this is apparently the longest Parliament since the English Civil War, so the precedent backs Johnson on this. It's just that "by amazing coincidence" the proroguement happens right in the run-up to a no-deal Brexit.
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Back in May there were a bunch of articles about her sentiment on the EU from declassified cables -
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The Queen confided to the German ambassador that she believed the future of Britain lay in Europe, newly released diplomatic cables from 1988 have shown. “Some have not realised this yet,” the monarch allegedly said of her subjects. She also appeared to back the creation of the single market.
In a memo composed on the occasion of his farewell visit to the British head of state on 25 November 1988, the then ambassador Rüdiger Freiherr von Wechmar reported that the conversation during an “emphatically warm and unrestrained” meeting had moved on to the subject of the British people’s attitude to Europe.
“With a smirk,” Wechmar wrote, “she noted that the Brits are still a very insular people, and to most of them the magical number 1992 doesn’t mean very much.” That was a reference to the fact that, two years previously, European leaders including the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, had signed the Single European Act, which set the member states of the bloc the objective of establishing a single market by the end of 1992, a commitment that culminated in the Maastricht treaty.
When the German diplomat praised a well-funded campaign by the trade secretary, David Young, aimed at advocating the benefits of the single market, the Queen replied: “It’s about time.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/19/the-queen-future-of-britain-in-europe-diplomatic-cables-germany
The OP (Recursion):
and Yvette Cooper, above:
I can't decide whether it's reassuring or scary (OK, 90% the latter) that the UK has gotten itself into as much as existential crisis as we have.
Can this maniac be stopped? If ever a vote of "no confidence" would be in order, this would seem to be it.
"The crazy bastard is doing it" 
But all I can imagine is someone like Bannon howling with glee because he was part of this nightmare and used that experience to then create yet another nightmare here in the U.S. with the 2016 Presidential election. 
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Where precedent doesn't back Johnson is that this would be an abnormally long prorogation (five weeks; the longest in the last 40 years has been three weeks).
Johnson didn't even have the courtesy (or guts) to inform the Speaker of the House, John Bercow:
The gap between suspending Parliament and the Queen's Speech that kicks off the new session need only be a matter of days.
This is blatant manipulation of the UK Constitution and procedures, and shows up the lies about hardcore Leavers' much-touted respect for "democracy".
It's being challenged in the Court of Session in Edinburgh during an ongoing case, and those pursuing the case (including sitting MPs) are now seeking an urgent interim order to block Johnson's move.
