What an unmitigated mess. Govt summons parliament for Tuesday 2 June and lets remote voting and hybrid sessions lapse. It insists 650 MPs vote through narrow lobbies in 15 minutes without checking that this is COVID compliant. Public Health England declare the lobbies unsafe 1/4

The govt dreams up another scheme - we all join a 1.3k queue to vote. Public Health England says this is no better. But Govt has tabled the highly controversial Gerrymandering Parliamentary Constituencies Bill for Tuesday with votes at 10pm. So now... 2/4

The Govt begs the Speaker to recall Parliament early so that we can vote... on how we vote. What an absolute shower. The govt wanted Parliament to give out a message by returning - but the message is clear 'help, we don't know what we're doing'. Breweries and welk-stalls. 3/4

This matters because yet again the vital health message is undermined by incompetence and their subliminal message that 'there's one rule for us and another for the rest of you'. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/23/boris-johnson-so-craves-an-audience-he-would-risk-mps-health-to-have-one 4/4