Amid all the partisan posturing, let’s not forget there’s a pretty important principle at stake here. If the government can just dissolve Parliament whenever Parliament starts asking difficult questions, then we haven’t got much of a Parliament, or a parliamentary democracy. 1/4

That’s particularly true when the subject is possible corruption in high office. If the government can get away with this — on top of prorogation, on top of censoring documents, on top of filibustering the committees — it means it can delay accountability indefinitely. 2/4

So I hope MPs of all parties call their bluff. Make the PM go through with it. Make him do the walk to the GG and say “I need you to dissolve the House so that it can’t call a committee to look into my attempt to steer public funds to the organization that hired my mum.” 3/4

If that means an election, so be it. If that means they lose the election, so be it. Maybe nobody cares about Parliament. Maybe all ppl care abt is who signs their cheques. If that’s the case, best to find out, & dispense w/ the illusion of parliamentary govt once and for all 4/4