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Originally Posted by octothorp
Yeah, I'm surprised by that too. Although the difference is that McDonald's government lasted for more than a year before the proroguing and had successfully passed confidence votes before. Requesting a proroguing this early is unprecedented. Just about every part of this story, taken alone, has some sort of precedent, but put it all together - the coalition, the signed statements, the proroguing - and it really is unique.
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I guess the only things similiar is proroguing to dodge a non-confidence vote. The rest of the hijinx is just dirty politics if you ask me.