On Tuesday the 15th of January 2019, Britain suffered a special kind of coup d'etat by the house of commons ....
.... When a number of politicians decided to try and sabotage Britain's exit from the EU .... Oh it won't be officially dead, but to all intents and purposes it will be, if the EU refuses to offer another deal, and with this one being rejected. The anti-democratic saboteurs won't vote to leave with no deal.
So we have nowhere else to go, and so an anti-democratic coup will have been enacted, simply because MP's refused to enact the will of the people. That will was expressed by those who voted in the biggest national mandate in British history, in which the majority of the people voted to leave the EU.
The saboteurs did so for a claimed myriad of interests, ranging from rank opportunism by Jeremy Corbyn, to very bad political decision making by some Tory MP's .... 432 votes to 202, so in all around 100 plus Conservative MPs and 10 DUP MPs, joined Labour and the other opposition parties to vote the proposed deal down.
What they all deliberately forgot was that what was voted for in the national referendum was Britain to leave the EU ..... Not 'only if we can get a deal that suits the Bremainers', or only if we can get a deal that suits the hard line Brexiters. Leave means leave. Exit means exit. Neither meant for some fine print control by MP's to reverse the result ......
For me, regardless of my political opinions, once what is a hodgepodge rump parliament decides to sabotage a national referendum, then parliament, and its careerist politicians are no longer worth supporting, or respect.
We risk the country breaking into a serious bout of anti-democratic tension. Once people get it in their heads that Parliament doesn't represent either the will of the people or respect the popular vote anymore, then you are on the road to the end of parliamentary democracy, and on the road to where the streets are where politics are decided.
This is a very dangerous path that we have now embarked on, and this could prove to be the day the music died.
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| A Very British Coup ..... |
.... When a number of politicians decided to try and sabotage Britain's exit from the EU .... Oh it won't be officially dead, but to all intents and purposes it will be, if the EU refuses to offer another deal, and with this one being rejected. The anti-democratic saboteurs won't vote to leave with no deal.
So we have nowhere else to go, and so an anti-democratic coup will have been enacted, simply because MP's refused to enact the will of the people. That will was expressed by those who voted in the biggest national mandate in British history, in which the majority of the people voted to leave the EU.
The saboteurs did so for a claimed myriad of interests, ranging from rank opportunism by Jeremy Corbyn, to very bad political decision making by some Tory MP's .... 432 votes to 202, so in all around 100 plus Conservative MPs and 10 DUP MPs, joined Labour and the other opposition parties to vote the proposed deal down.
What they all deliberately forgot was that what was voted for in the national referendum was Britain to leave the EU ..... Not 'only if we can get a deal that suits the Bremainers', or only if we can get a deal that suits the hard line Brexiters. Leave means leave. Exit means exit. Neither meant for some fine print control by MP's to reverse the result ......
For me, regardless of my political opinions, once what is a hodgepodge rump parliament decides to sabotage a national referendum, then parliament, and its careerist politicians are no longer worth supporting, or respect.
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| Street Led Politics Not New In Britain |
We risk the country breaking into a serious bout of anti-democratic tension. Once people get it in their heads that Parliament doesn't represent either the will of the people or respect the popular vote anymore, then you are on the road to the end of parliamentary democracy, and on the road to where the streets are where politics are decided.
This is a very dangerous path that we have now embarked on, and this could prove to be the day the music died.
Some things aren't Yes or No questions. It was a mistake to ask a binary question on a complicated issue - what they got was a binary answer, 52% vs 48%, hence the divide, no one should be surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe big turnout is deceptive because any apparently simple question will attract a large response, they thought it was easy to get the right answer, not to mention that it was one of the rare chances to "stick it to the man."
I didn't vote because I didn't feel that I had all the information to make such an important decision about the UK and Europe. I still don't know if we're better off in or out - I don't think anyone does - but even if the UK would be better off, the damage and the process of leaving doesn't appear to make it worth it.
I cant agree. I think that the EU is slowly turning into a busted flush and being shackled to a dead man is a sure way to drown when the waters rise. The debt issues in southern Europe are still there and will re-emerge with a vengeance if there is another recession.
DeleteWell, I was wrong. We left in the end, probably because we were all fed up with the wrangling and one politician said he would get it done. Whether it was the right decision or not, only time will tell. But its certain that it will be a decade ormore before we are asked to consider rejoining the EU again.
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