Who are the enemies of the nation?
The Leavers who are fighting FOR democracy or the Remainers who are fighting AGAINST it?
Why a no-deal Brexit is now overwhelmingly likely
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Who are the enemies of the nation?
The Leavers who are fighting FOR democracy or the Remainers who are fighting AGAINST it?
Boris Johnson is not a dictator, he is defending democracy from Remoaners
COMMENT
The Sun
29 Aug 2019
Loco over BoJo
WE’VE seen infantile antics from Remainer MPs and pundits before, but nothing to match yesterday’s deranged mass tantrum.
Boris Johnson is entirely within his rights to suspend Parliament, effectively for four sitting days after conference season, to put forward a new programme for post-Brexit government.
It doesn’t make him a “dictator”.
It doesn’t deprive Remainers of yet another chance to stop Brexit or vote him out . . . more’s the pity. It does make it a bit harder. But so what?
They are, after all, trying to block a decision most voters backed and which THEY put into law. They even made No Deal all but inevitable too, by defeating the only deal on the table. How clever this smug bunch thought they were then.
Up against Theresa May’s supine Government these saboteurs and their biased Speaker Bercow gleefully used every ruse to negate 17.4million Leave votes.
Now, confronted by a new, driven No10 fighting fire with fire, they clutch their pearls and demand the Queen intervenes.
One Labour moron threatens the monarchy. Another virtually incites a riot.
But their professed concern for our democracy is utterly false. These same MPs have plotted a coup in which Boris is replaced by a stooge PM and a Remainer Government literally no one voted for, to stop the biggest ballot box mandate in our history being enacted.
These charlatans will lie, cheat and scream blue murder to reverse Brexit.
Boris is not “running scared of our democracy”. Nor is he harming it.
He is defending it from Remoaners.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/98179...tor-he-is-defending-democracy-from-remoaners/
COMMENT
The Sun
29 Aug 2019
Loco over BoJo
WE’VE seen infantile antics from Remainer MPs and pundits before, but nothing to match yesterday’s deranged mass tantrum.
Boris Johnson is entirely within his rights to suspend Parliament, effectively for four sitting days after conference season, to put forward a new programme for post-Brexit government.
It doesn’t make him a “dictator”.
It doesn’t deprive Remainers of yet another chance to stop Brexit or vote him out . . . more’s the pity. It does make it a bit harder. But so what?
They are, after all, trying to block a decision most voters backed and which THEY put into law. They even made No Deal all but inevitable too, by defeating the only deal on the table. How clever this smug bunch thought they were then.
Up against Theresa May’s supine Government these saboteurs and their biased Speaker Bercow gleefully used every ruse to negate 17.4million Leave votes.
Now, confronted by a new, driven No10 fighting fire with fire, they clutch their pearls and demand the Queen intervenes.
One Labour moron threatens the monarchy. Another virtually incites a riot.
But their professed concern for our democracy is utterly false. These same MPs have plotted a coup in which Boris is replaced by a stooge PM and a Remainer Government literally no one voted for, to stop the biggest ballot box mandate in our history being enacted.
These charlatans will lie, cheat and scream blue murder to reverse Brexit.
Boris is not “running scared of our democracy”. Nor is he harming it.
He is defending it from Remoaners.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/98179...tor-he-is-defending-democracy-from-remoaners/
DANIEL HANNAN It’s not Boris Johnson who’s putting the Government at risk – it’s those deranged Remainers
COMMENT
By Daniel Hannan, Conservative Party MEP
28th August 2019
The Sun
SOME of our MPs are becoming hysterical, deranged and downright loopy.
Almost any action that Boris Johnson takes is now howled down by Remain hardliners as a coup, a putsch, or a fascist dictatorship.
Such language doesn’t make voters think differently about Boris. But it does make them think differently about the loons who talk that way.
Today, Boris announced that the longest parliamentary session in nearly 400 years would at last come to an end. A new session would begin in October.
He would not, as many Labour and Lib Dem MPs had feared, keep Parliament from sitting until after 31 October.
In other words, MPs would still get a chance to vote down Brexit if they wanted.
When Theresa May was in office, this is what Remainers were calling for.
Here, for example, is the Eurofanatical Labour MP, Chris Bryant, in April: “If the stories are true that the government is delaying the Queen’s Speech again, this will be the longest parliamentary session in the modern era.”
Now, though, Europhile MPs are yowling and shrieking like stricken animals.
Within minutes of Boris’s announcement, they had taken to social media with the hashtags #ThisIsACoup and #StopTheCoup.
In fact, we are seeing the opposite of a coup. We are seeing the restoration of constitutional normality.
May too timid to hold Queen’s Speech
The suspension of Parliament, known as “prorogation”, is not a device dreamed up by Eurosceptics. It generally happens every year.
The usual parliamentary year runs from autumn to autumn, like the school year. It has done so for hundreds of years.
Indeed, there is some evidence that it has done so for over a thousand years: Anglo-Saxon Witans, the precursors to our modern parliaments, also based their terms around Whitsun, Michaelmas and Easter.
So why has this session been running for nearly three years? Good question. Certainly not because of the number of laws it needed to pass. MPs in all parties admit that their schedule has been as light as anyone can remember.
Why, then, have we had the longest session since the Civil War?
Partly because Theresa May was reluctant to give MPs an opportunity to vote her out of office, which they could have done by rejecting a Queen’s Speech. Boris shows no such timidity.
And partly because many MPs were scratching around with increasing desperation to find a way of delaying Brexit further.
Those MPs are now running out of time and running out of options.
They could have cancelled Brexit outright. Several times over the past two years, they could have voted to repeal Article 50 – that is, to withdraw our notice to quit. But they were too scared.
Instead they blocked and filibustered and drew things out as long as they could. Now, when told to put up or shut up, they do neither. They just whine.
The recess will be a grand total of four days longer than Remainers wanted. So what were they planning to do in those four days that they haven’t done in three years?
The absurdity is that it is not Boris who is flouting the constitution, but his opponents.
Again and again, Remainer MPs have bent the rules to try to get out of implementing the referendum result. They have politicised the Speaker. They have ignored precedent. They have made up the rules as they go along.
Last week, they took the extraordinary step of meeting in Church House, the meeting place of the Houses of Parliament during WW2, and threatening to hold alternative parliamentary sessions there.
Britain is not Libya, for Heaven’s sake. We have rules. We have a constitutional order.
When MPs rip up those rules and suggest establishing themselves as an alternative government, they are putting hundreds of years of political stability at risk.
To what end? To overturn the biggest vote in British history. That is the unforgivable thing.
“We are MPs and we are accountable to our constituents – it is our responsibility to represent their views,” said Anna Soubry, the Euro-zealous MP, earlier this week, without a hint of irony or self-awareness.
Her constituents voted Leave as did the country as a whole. Yet she seems genuinely to have convinced herself that she is defending democracy.
That, in the end, is the best reason of all to get on with Brexit.
Every day that this drags on makes our debate more heated. Every day makes our language more intolerant.
We need to press on with the other things that Boris is proposing: better infrastructure, more police, tax cuts.
We can’t, though, until Brexit is settled. Only once this wretched argument is brought to an end can we come together again as a country.
This has gone on long enough. If MPs really want to risk an election, good luck to them. If not, they should give Boris the freedom to deliver.
And then, for the love of God, let’s move on.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9814496/brexit-boris-johnson-deranged-remainers/amp
COMMENT
By Daniel Hannan, Conservative Party MEP
28th August 2019
The Sun
SOME of our MPs are becoming hysterical, deranged and downright loopy.
Almost any action that Boris Johnson takes is now howled down by Remain hardliners as a coup, a putsch, or a fascist dictatorship.
Such language doesn’t make voters think differently about Boris. But it does make them think differently about the loons who talk that way.
Today, Boris announced that the longest parliamentary session in nearly 400 years would at last come to an end. A new session would begin in October.
He would not, as many Labour and Lib Dem MPs had feared, keep Parliament from sitting until after 31 October.
In other words, MPs would still get a chance to vote down Brexit if they wanted.
When Theresa May was in office, this is what Remainers were calling for.
Here, for example, is the Eurofanatical Labour MP, Chris Bryant, in April: “If the stories are true that the government is delaying the Queen’s Speech again, this will be the longest parliamentary session in the modern era.”
Now, though, Europhile MPs are yowling and shrieking like stricken animals.
Within minutes of Boris’s announcement, they had taken to social media with the hashtags #ThisIsACoup and #StopTheCoup.
In fact, we are seeing the opposite of a coup. We are seeing the restoration of constitutional normality.
May too timid to hold Queen’s Speech
The suspension of Parliament, known as “prorogation”, is not a device dreamed up by Eurosceptics. It generally happens every year.
The usual parliamentary year runs from autumn to autumn, like the school year. It has done so for hundreds of years.
Indeed, there is some evidence that it has done so for over a thousand years: Anglo-Saxon Witans, the precursors to our modern parliaments, also based their terms around Whitsun, Michaelmas and Easter.
So why has this session been running for nearly three years? Good question. Certainly not because of the number of laws it needed to pass. MPs in all parties admit that their schedule has been as light as anyone can remember.
Why, then, have we had the longest session since the Civil War?
Partly because Theresa May was reluctant to give MPs an opportunity to vote her out of office, which they could have done by rejecting a Queen’s Speech. Boris shows no such timidity.
And partly because many MPs were scratching around with increasing desperation to find a way of delaying Brexit further.
Those MPs are now running out of time and running out of options.
They could have cancelled Brexit outright. Several times over the past two years, they could have voted to repeal Article 50 – that is, to withdraw our notice to quit. But they were too scared.
Instead they blocked and filibustered and drew things out as long as they could. Now, when told to put up or shut up, they do neither. They just whine.
The recess will be a grand total of four days longer than Remainers wanted. So what were they planning to do in those four days that they haven’t done in three years?
The absurdity is that it is not Boris who is flouting the constitution, but his opponents.
Again and again, Remainer MPs have bent the rules to try to get out of implementing the referendum result. They have politicised the Speaker. They have ignored precedent. They have made up the rules as they go along.
Last week, they took the extraordinary step of meeting in Church House, the meeting place of the Houses of Parliament during WW2, and threatening to hold alternative parliamentary sessions there.
Britain is not Libya, for Heaven’s sake. We have rules. We have a constitutional order.
When MPs rip up those rules and suggest establishing themselves as an alternative government, they are putting hundreds of years of political stability at risk.
To what end? To overturn the biggest vote in British history. That is the unforgivable thing.
“We are MPs and we are accountable to our constituents – it is our responsibility to represent their views,” said Anna Soubry, the Euro-zealous MP, earlier this week, without a hint of irony or self-awareness.
Her constituents voted Leave as did the country as a whole. Yet she seems genuinely to have convinced herself that she is defending democracy.
That, in the end, is the best reason of all to get on with Brexit.
Every day that this drags on makes our debate more heated. Every day makes our language more intolerant.
We need to press on with the other things that Boris is proposing: better infrastructure, more police, tax cuts.
We can’t, though, until Brexit is settled. Only once this wretched argument is brought to an end can we come together again as a country.
This has gone on long enough. If MPs really want to risk an election, good luck to them. If not, they should give Boris the freedom to deliver.
And then, for the love of God, let’s move on.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9814496/brexit-boris-johnson-deranged-remainers/amp
Nothing says "democracy" like that very same prorogued Parliament trying to overturn the will of the people.
That very Parliament is undemocratic, yet I never hear you complaining about it.
Yet when that undemocratic Parliament is prorogued, here you are complaining about a perceived outrage of democracy!
And it's good to see Queen Elizabeth II on the side of her people and democracy against the most undemocratic parliament in 200 years.
I'm right, aren't I?
Oh, thank you.
I feel like everything's tickety boo right now, and I feel blessed in having a much higher intellectual capability than you.
Getting the Engineering Department up-and-out of the office for the long weekend. Their mistakes can wait 'til Tuesday.
He is probably still IN the pub.......with his laptop/ tablet .Stay tuned for more pub induced delights. ..& insights.;-)
British-occupied Scotland, British-occupied Wales, British-occupied Northern Ireland and British-occupied England.
Boris Johnson threatens to SACK Tory Remainer MPs who vote to block No Deal as plot to scupper Brexit intensifies
The Prime Minister (top, yesterday at Downing Street) is set to prevent Remainer MPs within his party from standing at the next general election should they try to prevent a No Deal next week. It comes as a cross-party group of MPs has agreed to work together to delay Brexit, which could come in the form of a no-confidence vote. Among the rebel Tory MPs thought to be involved include Philip Hammond, 63, (bottom-right) and former justice secretary David Gauke, 47, (bottom-left) who has said next week may be the only chance for MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Remainer 'Stop The Coup' protest organiser who is plotting to block roads in 30 cities TODAY is a hard-Leftist who has described Remembrance Sunday as 'insidious'
Momentum member Michael Chessum (left), 30, is one of the leading figures behind protests in 30 UK cities, having been a prominent figure in the 2010 student protests that culminated in a break in to Conservative Party Headquarters and riots in Westminster. He also notably boycotted Remembrance Sunday as president of the University of London students' union because he 'regarded the ceremony as a political statement'. The 'Stop The Coup' protests, supported by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (top right) will take to the streets later today and are expected to attract hundreds of thousands of protestors.
The Prime Minister (top, yesterday at Downing Street) is set to prevent Remainer MPs within his party from standing at the next general election should they try to prevent a No Deal next week. It comes as a cross-party group of MPs has agreed to work together to delay Brexit, which could come in the form of a no-confidence vote. Among the rebel Tory MPs thought to be involved include Philip Hammond, 63, (bottom-right) and former justice secretary David Gauke, 47, (bottom-left) who has said next week may be the only chance for MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Remainer 'Stop The Coup' protest organiser who is plotting to block roads in 30 cities TODAY is a hard-Leftist who has described Remembrance Sunday as 'insidious'
Momentum member Michael Chessum (left), 30, is one of the leading figures behind protests in 30 UK cities, having been a prominent figure in the 2010 student protests that culminated in a break in to Conservative Party Headquarters and riots in Westminster. He also notably boycotted Remembrance Sunday as president of the University of London students' union because he 'regarded the ceremony as a political statement'. The 'Stop The Coup' protests, supported by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (top right) will take to the streets later today and are expected to attract hundreds of thousands of protestors.
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Boris Johnson has a one seat majority in the House and sacking any of his MPs is a patently stupid idea. Yes, he's just proroged Parliament but he and his government can still fall after that.
He's not getting rid of them now. He'll just prevent any of his Remainer MPs from standing at the next General Election if they try to scupper No Deal Brexit. And he's quite right to do so. The Tories won the election on a mandate to deliver Brexit.
Of course, Boris will just do the voters' job for them. Even if he doesn't prevent any Remainer Tory MPs from standing at the next election for attempting to thwart No Deal Brexit then their constituents would just kick them out anyway and likely vote in a Brexit Party MP instead. So Boris is trying to ensure there'll still be Tories in those seats after the election rather than Brexit Party MPs.
I can't wait until the next General Election - the looks on the faces of all those Remainer MPs of Leave constituencies (and there are a lot of such MPs, the majority, in fact) when they have just discovered they've been kicked out of office by their constituents will be priceless.