[nicky0]

Exactly, and my point was that "government", in UK, means the current executive and means something different from "parliament".

It seems the facebook seizure was not ordered by Theresa May's government, but instead by parliament itself exerting its powers directly.

It's an unusual move and that is what makes this particularly interesting.

I'm not sure why so many people have replied to me trying to insist that government and parliament mean the same thing. They do not.