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It's been a while since my politics A level, so I may get some of the terms wrong but hopefully the facts right.

As the UK doesn't have a formal constitution, it relies on convention and that parliament is effectively all powerful (under the crown) in that if parliament (encompassing both houses in this context) votes for something it can do it. (As it represents the will of the people and has the authority of the crown (less relevant in the modern day))

Parliament can't therefore lock a decision in such a way that a future parliament can't change because the future parliament is still all powerful.

In practice though this isn't entirely the case. You can make a law like you said, and while a future parliament can break it, it would (probably) look bad on them. But what does that do to stop politicians?

A further note on the previous chain - we go have two houses of parliament; the house of commons is the main one with the green benches that most will recognise. It has our elected representatives (MPs) in and (normally) where the PM is selected from.

The house of lords (red benches, appointed members for life) is generally considered the check chamber. It used to be able to block laws entirely, but I believe lost that power semi recently and it can now be overruled by the commons after 2/3 rejections.

Everything is eventually decided by the majority of votes in the house of commons. Even if you put a law in saying that the pm can't do this without a 80% vote, that law itself could be repealed with a 50% vote.

Theoretically it would only require a 50% vote to remove elections or something crazy. (Although in practice that might not get past the king who technically has the final say)

There is no formal constitution that has more protection like in some countries.

Na, we are bags of water for the purposes of most approximations

Ah, I just assume as it was carbon it would still be quite low (relatively)

Don't diamonds burn? They are just carbon.

Most people who play games are not "gamers" and are not in any kind of community that says not to preorder.

Dammit, I came here to make that comment!

Oh hey - a non DRS overtake!

Two!

Didn't see it, what happened? Why?

Why do they still use the plastic sleeves for trees? Surely we can make something biodegradable now instead of adding loads of plastic pollution every time we plant trees?

It's flared for RoW so your safe with your original comment.

More like sauber (soon Audi) are firing both their drivers

Anyone know why sky is fielding their B team?

There is a tailwind there apparently, much stronger than this morning.

all the patches to the chassis' 😅

Bikes actually require a level of care though? If you just leave them outside they are going to start rusting etc.

Going to have to be expensive to cover that and theft

The second hand market is the place to be, so many 'ridden once' bikes around.

I just picked up a road bike for my commute for £74! The tires still had the little rubber bits from the mold on them!

A niche subject just makes it easier to be in the top 25%

Humorous questions on the survey probably are though

They had already done loads of work here to rewild the area. Nice that they are expanding it.

Probably good for local tourism too.