A little over a year ago the UK voted to leave the EU.

Fifty-two percent of Britain voted against membership in the European Union and tens of millions celebrated, "taking their country back".

They celebrated the beginning of leaving the European Union. A legislature which has been characterised by Brexiteers as an anti-democratic organisation that avoids scrutiny, debate and the democratic process.

Since that time, David Cameron, the referendum Prime Minister, has resigned. The next Prime Minister, Theresa May, waltzed into Number 10 with an in-built majority and a seemingly weak Labour leader.

So, several months later, she thought it would be a good idea to call a General Election to increase her Brexit mandate.

She was way ahead in the polls...

But on polling day, something unexpected happened. She fell into the rarely seen Parliamentary quagmire of a Hung Parliament.

British politics works under one main premise. The Government never loses (an important vote). I call this RULE ONE.

No political party has an outright majority in this Parliament. This means the Government could be in danger of breaking rule one. In the UK, Governments normally have an absolute majority which means they are guaranteed to win every vote that they put to the House(subject to keeping their backbenchers happy).

Absolute majorities in Parliament also mean that the Government gets absolute majorities on every committee as well. This happens because Commons committees reflect the distribution of Members in the House.

Without an absolute majority, the Government lose their majority in committees. In the case of Commons select committees,the committees that shadow the work of Government departments, this means that reports may not be glowing in their praise of the Government but, in the case of Commons legislative committees, the Government are in danger of losing votes on their own legislation. This would also include bills on Brexit.

This would be a violation of Rule One. In the past,Government losses would lead to a new General Election but now, any call for a new election requires a 2/3rds majority vote in Parliament. Polling numbers for the Conservatives indicate that they may lose another election so there is no longer an incentive for them to have a re-do.

What many outside of the gates of Westminster do not understand is that is that the Government control nearly all aspects of the operation of the House of Commons. This means that there is NO OBLIGATION on the UK Government to implement the various scrutinising processes of the House.

IN SHORT, the Conservative Government, in order to guarantee permanent victory in Parliament, are willingly slowing down the work of Parliament, or worse, stopping the work of Parliament until a time of their choosing in order to avoid scrutiny, debate and the democratic process.

Which is, I suppose, one way of taking back control.