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Originally Posted by jfman

I’m not questioning the appropriateness - I’m here and active.

I’m only positing what would the news headlines have been had Hoyle done his job correctly and (in all likelihood) the SNP motion failed.

It’d have been how many MPs - specifically Labour MPs - backed it.

Some estimates had the number of potential Labour backers at 90. It’d have been how much authority does Starmer have over his party. Is his fence sitting tenable? Etc.

The Speaker handed out a big get out of jail free card, at the expense of the SNP and due process.

The motions were all variants of the same thing. The SNP motion was at the Hamza Yousaf end of the spectrum, the Tory motion was at the diplomacy end of the spectrum and the Labour motion was concocted by the tail wagging the dog ahead of the GE. The Speaker should have allowed due process to bring this fiasco of a motion to a conclusion.