It's getting more like the Moonshine Saloon nowadays around at Maisie's Parliament.
I'm wondering that if you can't win a card hand legitimately, then maybe a few dollars could help things along?
And if that's not enough then maybe add an extra seat to the table? I guess we'll need to get used to hearing about block grants, Stormont locks and devolved Cabinet ministers over the next few weeks. Maisie runs the saloon just how she pleases; change the rules anytime to suit.
Meanwhile croupier Phil remains tight-lipped about more confidence and supply money, even when asked three times. I could hear that little red red rooster crowin'.
I've been along to see outside the saloon - my pictures below. It's still confusingly factional, with sporadic shouting and no-one listening to anyone else.
Come to think of it, there's little difference inside. The Erskine May rulebook doesn't amount to a hill of beans in these circumstances. The rules say you can't vote again on the same thing.
No problem, the get-around is to slightly tweak democracy.
Even when the formal document is locked, the idea of adding an amendment gives Maisie as many attempts as she likes, each one technically different.
It's a clever ruse.
That way there can be a third vote on the same matter, once they've rustled sufficient posse to ensure it can win. Even better, why not secretively control the date of the vote and keep it on a cliffhanger until the last moment when everything has been secured?
A blend of whipped tories, pork-barrelled DUP members and complicit hard right mercenaries operating to get to the next stage.
It hasn't happened yet, but that seems to be the plan, unless Mr Speaker stops it. Come to think of it, Maisie would probably attempt prorogation to reboot Parliament if that happened.
Forget the Wild West, this is the Wild Westminster. No wonder the Big Ben clock hides its face.
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