Conclave

Following the post at reference 2 in February, the papal conclave described by Rolfe at reference 1 comes to mind this morning.

Perhaps our speaker should be empowered to declare a parliamentary conclave, whereby all the MP's, the lords and the ladies are locked, incommunicado, into the Palace of Westminster until they come up with a Brexit motion which commands a stable majority in both houses. To help them along, everyone is given a copy of the relevant chapter of reference 1, where all the shenanigans of the cardinals in conclave are set out.

When the speaker is satisfied that the incarcerated parliamentarians have done the deed, he orders the joyous ringing of Big Ben so that the rest of us can relax and potter on down to the boozer. Or whatever. While the parliamentarians get to tuck into a mountain of take-away pizza.

Reference 1: Hadrian the Seventh - Frederick Rolfe - 1904.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-special-sort-of-hand-eye-coordination.html.