Actually, technically, it's the Queen who has dissolved parliament. Gordon Brown has to drive to Buckingham Palace and request her permission to do so, whereupon she's like "Yeah, okay, whatevs" and goes back to wringing the necks of small animals maimed by the corgis.
Entertainingly enough Parliament, or at least the Houses of Parliament, actually are dissolving... in the rain. When they were built they were designed to be constructed from a rather expensive, but hard-wearing, stone that would stand up to its rainy vigil over the country.
In a typical bit of short-termism so beloved of Parliaments (where you only have to almost balance the books for four to five years at a time) 'twas decided to use a cheaper stone thus saving the country A Lot Of Money.
The subsequent costs relating to the constant maintenance and repair of the Houses of Parliament are really rather obscene.
I did not know this! Fascinating. I would suggest they build a new one but I've seen the Scottish Parliament Building at Holyrood and it looks like a crashed spaceship made of Lego from the planet of ugly things.
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In a typical bit of short-termism so beloved of Parliaments (where you only have to almost balance the books for four to five years at a time) 'twas decided to use a cheaper stone thus saving the country A Lot Of Money.
The subsequent costs relating to the constant maintenance and repair of the Houses of Parliament are really rather obscene.
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