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A session is (usually) a year-long part of a parliament. There are no fixed lengths, but traditionally they run for about a year.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/occasions/calendar/

See also:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.u...-this-the-longest-parliamentary-session-ever/

A parliamentary session is equivalent to the academic year that you find in a school or a university, or the season for a sport. The session begins when the Queen opens Parliament (the State Opening). It ends with the prorogation, when the Queen’s representatives visit Parliament to announce its end. The next session commences with another state opening. Throughout the twentieth century the general pattern was for sessions to begin and end in October or November. From 2010, with the introduction of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, it was decided the new Parliamentary session should begin in May.
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Worm said:
A session is (usually) a year-long part of a parliament. There are no fixed lengths, but traditionally they run for about a year.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/occasions/calendar/
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Thanks. :thumbsup:

I've checked in the mean time here as well.
Apparently we used to have sessions like that as well.

But these ran during the length of the parliamentary, with the new parliamentary year starting at the moment the government presents the budget for the coming year, to be voted upon by the new parliament (Prinsjesdag).
Back when we stil had session the last session would stop the day before 'Prinsjesdag' and automatically start the next day. Which sounds logical, because else parliament can't do it's job properly.

Now the session (if you could call it that) goes from election to election (there's still the yearly Prinsjesdag, though).

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Back to the UK parliament.
You mention usually year-long. Why is that? Why is there not a fixed length?
 
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Vixen said:
That was just Barnier trying to make our Brit look stupid and unprepared.
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Well he was stupid and unprepared.

I seem to remember him (David Davies) later laying some of the blame at the door of the British negotiating team when it was his own choice not to be part of it anymore.
 
erwinl said:
You mention usually year-long. Why is that? Why is there not a fixed length?
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Because that would be sensible and organised. ;)

It's really down to the Government, if they decide that there is ongoing business to deal with, they will continue. For instance, the current session was extended to two years, basically because of the need to sort out Brexit. And hasn't that gone well?

I'm sure there are myriad political reasons why sessions might continue, or be shortened, for the political gain of various people, but that is far from my area of expertise.
 
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Back to the UK parliament.
You mention usually year-long. Why is that? Why is there not a fixed length?
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Probably so the opposition cannot run down the clock on important legislation as the end of the session approaches.
 
The Don said:
Probably so the opposition cannot run down the clock on important legislation as the end of the session approaches.
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I keep on forgetting that ypur politics is much more confrontational and opposing than ours. Just like the politics the Americans have. And maybe this even is at the source of the friction that the UK and the other European countries feel towards eachother in the EU.

Maybe a session from election to election is more rational in future cases. (never going to happen, I know).
 
A parliament runs from election to election. It is then broken into separate sessions.

This current session is the longest since the civil war. It's something of an anomaly - though unlikely to break the record of the Long Parliament from civil war times. That lasted 13 years ;)
 
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The magic money tree continues to provide:

The government has declared it has "turned the page on austerity" as it set out plans to raise spending across all departments.

Chancellor Sajid Javid outlined £13.8bn of investment on areas including health and education in what he said is the fastest increase for 15 years.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49577250

The problems attributed to immigration and the EU which led to the Brexit vote, underfunding of the NHS and pressure on local services were actually caused deliberately as a result of Austerity.

I think this is a cynical attempt to make Brexit look better by simply reversing austerity
 
Hmmm. A few days back I had a crafty 8 Euros on Johnson to break the record for shortest term as PM (119 days), at 6-1. Current odds are 2.6-1 ;)
 
The Don said:
The magic money tree continues to provide:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49577250

The problems attributed to immigration and the EU which led to the Brexit vote, underfunding of the NHS and pressure on local services were actually caused deliberately as a result of Austerity.

I think this is a cynical attempt to make Brexit look better by simply reversing austerity
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Also setting up their soundbites for the election.
 
Wudang said:
What the Don said plus: There's a BBC show called Eat Well for Less (available on iPlayer) which has "experts" visit families to help with their food budget. You see families who think that you roast a chicken, slice off the breast and drumsticks and dump the rest. For me that's a risotto waiting to happen.
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For years I was traumatised by my step-mother insisting that any left-over chicken was made into risotto the next day, which I did not and never have liked. These days I get to have lovely yummy cold chicken for lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays.
 
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