An interesting addition to parliamentary terminology

John Dunn John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK
Fri Jun 8 15:12:38 UTC 2012


As you will know, the Russian Parliament has recently approved a new law governing public protests and demonstrations.  In an attempt, if not to disrupt, then to delay the passage of this law some members of the opposition put forward several hundred amendments, some of them, apparently, nonsensical.  This procedure, ultimately unsuccessful, was described in one source in a curious mixture of Soviet and computer terminology: 
   
Правда, в конечном счете "итальянский троллинг" не помог. (http://www.newsru.com/russia/06jun2012/trolli.html)

The question I have is this: given that in British parliamentary practice the procedure for counteracting this activity is know as a guillotine, how do you behead an Italian troll?

John Dunn.

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