Did Trump get smarter the longer he was in charge?? . . . . nope, why would a leader from and even more messed up country do any better?
Johnson becomes 77th PM and forms a government of Brexiteers
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And yet none of that stopped him from being the greatest-ever London Mayor, serving two terms, an amazing achievement in a left-wing Labour-supporting city.
It’s not just Boris bending the constitution
Remainer MPs want to use the queen, the courts and caretaker governments to block Brexit.
Luke Gittos
15th August 2019
Spiked
Do Remainers really believe Her Majesty would agree to the overturning of a democratic decision by her people?
A poll published this week in the Telegraph suggested that a majority of the public would support prime minister Boris Johnson proroguing parliament in order to deliver Brexit on 31 October. Proroguing parliament, which was mooted by Johnson earlier this year during the Tory leadership race, would involve suspending MPs using constitutional powers under the Royal Prerogative. These powers are held by the queen but, in practice, are exercised by ministers on her behalf. Shutting down parliament would allow the UK to leave the European Union by default on 31 October. Unless MPs approve a deal, a further extension is granted to the Article 50 timeframe, or the UK revokes its Article 50 notification, there will be a No Deal Brexit.
The sanguine attitude of the public to Johnson’s plan to bypass parliament is in stark contrast to the reaction of the Remainers. John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons, said he would fight the suspension of parliament ‘with every breath’. He has said previously that the prospect of preventing parliament from intervening on Brexit would be ‘unimaginable’. Then we have Gina Miller, the campaigner who brought the legal case to prevent Theresa May from triggering Article 50 without a vote in parliament. She has branded Boris a ‘dictator’ in response to his plan to suspend parliament.
It would certainly be wrong for the prime minister to dissolve parliament using the undemocratic Royal Prerogative. Our constitution is unwritten. It relies on MPs and the government respecting democratic tradition; they should not manipulate the rules to get their own way.
But the Remainers calling Boris a ‘dictator’ ignore the ways in which their own side has played constitutional games, too. Ever since the Brexit vote, Remainers have used the institutions of parliament, with their arcane rules and procedures, to stall Brexit – and they have more plans up their sleeves. Bercow, in particular, is no stranger to constitutional wrangling. He has used his powers as speaker to bolster Remainer MPs on numerous occasions. In January, he allowed MPs to vote on an amendment tabled by arch Remainer Dominic Grieve. In allowing the vote, he went against the advice of his expert clerks, who argued it was in breach of parliamentary rules.
Many of the Remainers’ schemes envisage the intervention of our unelected monarch. In November 2018, MPs passed a ‘humble address’ motion. This forced the government to disclose legal advice it had received from the attorney general on Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement. Some Remainer MPs are seriously suggesting that a humble-address motion could be used to get the queen to attend an EU summit and request an extension to the Article 50 period. In this event, the queen herself would attend an international summit instead of the prime minister, and she would negotiate on the UK’s behalf. Of course, this is incredibly unlikely to happen. But it shows the desperate and undemocratic lengths Remainer MPs are willing to go to in order to block Brexit.
A cross-party group of MPs is also planning an amendment that would allow them further sitting time to stop a No Deal Brexit. It would amend a motion which requires MPs to break for party conferences in mid-September. The hope is that the extra time would allow them to pass a bill forcing the government to seek an extension to Article 50.
Then there is the suggestion that MPs could table a vote of no confidence to replace Johnson’s government. Jeremy Corbyn has promised to table a no-confidence motion as soon as parliament returns from recess in early September. If such a motion is passed, the house must express its confidence in either the same government or an alternative government within 14 days, or a General Election has to be held. It was the possibility that an alternative government may command the confidence of the house that lead to Caroline Lucas’s bizarre suggestion of installing a government of national unity constituted solely of women. Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey has suggested a different government of national unity, led by either Yvette Cooper or Hilary Benn. Corbyn’s plan is to install himself as a caretaker prime minister.
Parliamentarians have even brought litigation to prevent Johnson’s plan. A legal case, the weapon of choice for well-heeled Remainers, has been brought in the Scottish Court of Session (English courts don’t sit in August). It has been backed by 70 MPs, each of whom is trying to use the courts to prevent a democratically elected government from carrying out the largest mandate ever delivered in British political history.
Johnson’s plan to prorogue parliament is wrong. But it is absurd for Remainers to call the prime minister a dictator when we consider the array of anti-democratic constitutional tricks that are being pulled to stop Brexit. MPs and the government need to find a way of carrying out the mandate bestowed by the 2016 vote. The UK constitution should be a vehicle for enacting the will of the people, not shutting it down.
Luke Gittos is a spiked columnist. His new book, Human Rights – Illusory Freedom: Why We Should Repeal the Human Rights Act, is published by Zero Books.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/15/its-not-just-boris-bending-the-constitution/
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Well, at least Blackshirt is finally admitting BoreJo is acting unconstitutionally.
Baby steps.
No, I fight fire with water. YOU fight fire with fire.
Because you're stupid.
You probably babble about "the exception that proves the rule" a lot too, don't you?
Boris certainly is.
Although he's using an undemocratic method to ensure democracy is carried out.
The evil Remainers, however, are using undemocratic methods to ensure democracy is NOT carried out.
And yet you only have a beef with the former.
LEO McKINSTRY: This lofty clique will do anything to obstruct democracy
By Leo Mckinstry For The Daily Mail
15 Aug 2019
Boris Johnson caused a stir this week with what some felt was incendiary language when he denounced the ‘terrible collaboration’ between the EU and the anti-Brexiteers.
But inflammatory though the phrase may be, the sentiment behind it is understandable.
The fanatical gang of Tory Remainer rebels, led by the ‘other Dominic’ in the Brexit saga – Grieve rather than Johnson’s right-hand man Cummings – have just signalled their willingness to work with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to thwart a No Deal Brexit.
It is hard to imagine a greater betrayal of their own party and of British democracy than this shameful move by Grieve’s group, whose number also includes former minister Oliver Letwin, ex-Tory chairman Caroline Spelman and semi-detached Grantham MP Nick Boles.
In their eagerness to undermine Johnson’s Government, they are willing to consider installing in Downing Street a Marxist agitator whose entire political outlook is the very antithesis of Conservatism.
Dominic Grieve
Corbyn is not fit to be a school caretaker, never mind a caretaker premier, yet this is the role that the zealous Tory Europhiles seem to be contemplating for him.
Showing more sense than Grieve’s gang, the Liberal Democrats have dismissed Corbyn’s proposal that he should form ‘a time-limited government’ to secure another delay in Brexit and a general election.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, rightly argued yesterday that not only is Corbyn too widely despised at Westminster to command a Commons majority, but also he is too extreme to be prime minister.
But such concerns seem lost on Grieve and his fellow Tory pro-EU diehards, who wrote to Corbyn to tell him they ‘should be happy to meet with you’ to discuss ‘our common priority’ of defeating a No Deal Brexit.
In its obsequiousness, this letter illustrates the depths of ideological fervour to which Grieve & Co have sunk.
Support for a hard-Left revolutionary, who sympathises with terrorism and wants to overthrow capitalism, should never be part of any Conservative MP’s activity.
Yet, within the Grieve clique, worship of Brussels has warped their judgment, destroyed their moral compass, obliterated their party loyalty and shows utter disdain for the people they serve.
The pro-Corbyn manoeuvre is just the latest in a pattern of conduct designed to bring mayhem to the Brexit process through endless procedural wrangling in Parliament, particularly through the use of wrecking amendments.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, rightly argued yesterday that not only is Corbyn too widely despised at Westminster to command a Commons majority, but also he is too extreme to be prime minister
Spelman, an unimpressive former minister, has co-operated tirelessly with Labour MP Jack Dromey to undermine the Government, as have Letwin – who has gone from Thatcherite loyalist to serial trouble-maker – and Boles, whose anti-Brexit posturing led to a fall-out with his local constituency association.
But by far the biggest figure is Grieve himself, the barrister and former attorney general who has appointed himself the keeper of the holy flame for the Remain cause.
Grieve once described himself as ‘a bit of an old-fashioned Conservative’, but in reality he is the smug voice of the modern pro-EU Establishment which, behind all the lawyerly courtesy, has nothing but contempt for the referendum decision.
Grieve once described himself as ‘a bit of an old-fashioned Conservative’, but in reality he is the smug voice of the modern pro-EU Establishment which, behind all the lawyerly courtesy, has nothing but contempt for the referendum decision.
That is why he has spent the past three years dreaming up ever more complex plots to block the will of the people.
Astonishingly, this is the same Dominic Grieve who, in the 2017 general election, declared that ‘the decision in the referendum must be respected’.
He justifies his U-turn by saying he is putting Britain’s national interests first, but what could do more damage to our country than the advent of a Corbyn government?
Grieve, who was awarded the Legion d’Honneur for his services to British-Franco relations – is often lauded for his cleverness. But his apparent faith in Corbyn’s good intentions seems dangerously misplaced.
The lesson from history is that once revolutionaries seize power, they rarely let go without conflict.
Grieve’s antics have already alienated a large section of his constituency association in Beaconsfield, where he recently lost a vote of confidence. He has vowed, however, to ‘continue as before’.
And that is the problem. The zealous Remainer stance, which has now descended into collusion with Corbyn, will only provoke further disillusion.
Beaconsfield was once the home of the great 19th century prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, one of the architects of democratic Conservatism.
How ironic that democracy is precisely what Grieve appears to have no regard for whatsoever.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...cKINSTRY-lofty-clique-obstruct-democracy.html
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What changes were made? What lasting changes were made? If nothing was changed was he ineffective or does the place 'not need fixing' as it is running just the way the real bosses like it. The glass of beer with the locals would be Humpty Dumpty ofter a fall if the script was obeying the natural laws of physics.
What changes were made? What lasting changes were made? If nothing was changed was he ineffective or does the place 'not need fixing' as it is running just the way the real bosses like it. The glass of beer with the locals would be Humpty Dumpty ofter a fall if the script was obeying the natural laws of physics.
That's the Lord Mayor of the City of London, not the Mayor of London.
The current Lord Mayor of the City of London is Peter Estlin.
The Sun: EU spokespeople sounding like a broken record on Brexit
EU's top body is riddled with fraud and harassment, a shock report revealed today.
The European Commission run by Jean-Claude Juncker has seen a string of serious accusations against officials: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9107974/jean-claude-juncker-european-commission-fraud-harassment/
EU's top body is riddled with fraud and harassment, a shock report revealed today.
The European Commission run by Jean-Claude Juncker has seen a string of serious accusations against officials: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9107974/jean-claude-juncker-european-commission-fraud-harassment/
The Sun:EU spokespeople sounding like a broken record on Brexit:
EU's top body is riddled with fraud and harassment, a shock report revealed today.
The European Commission run by Jean-Claude Juncker has seen a string of serious accusations against officials: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9107974/jean-claude-juncker-european-commission-fraud-harassment/
EU's top body is riddled with fraud and harassment, a shock report revealed today.
The European Commission run by Jean-Claude Juncker has seen a string of serious accusations against officials: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9107974/jean-claude-juncker-european-commission-fraud-harassment/
Arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, the newly appointed Leader of the Commons, has given the Scottish National Party a history lesson during his first stint at the dispatch box.
The SNP’s Pete Wishart began by reminding the man known as ‘the Honourable Member for the early 20th Century’ that ‘he’s Leader of the House of Commons, not the House of Plantagenet, or the House of Tudor.’
Rees-Mogg responded by reminding Wishart that ‘I would point out that the House of Commons predates the House of Tudor. It started in 1265’ before relating a brief history of the Commons.
The SNP’s Pete Wishart began by reminding the man known as ‘the Honourable Member for the early 20th Century’ that ‘he’s Leader of the House of Commons, not the House of Plantagenet, or the House of Tudor.’
Rees-Mogg responded by reminding Wishart that ‘I would point out that the House of Commons predates the House of Tudor. It started in 1265’ before relating a brief history of the Commons.
Dominic Grieve & Phillip Hammond's Lies Exposed Over Claims A WTO Brexit Was Not Discussed In 2016
So we have all heard the nonsense claims made by the Remoaners that no one voted for a WTO Brexit because it was never discussed. Let's see how wrong these anti-democratic shitweasels are:
So we have all heard the nonsense claims made by the Remoaners that no one voted for a WTO Brexit because it was never discussed. Let's see how wrong these anti-democratic shitweasels are:
The Remainers' latest ludicrous scare story over Brexit is that No Deal would kill 45,000 cows. This was recently discussed on BBC Newsnight.
Of, course making out like 45,000 cows is a lot and expecting people to believe farmers would just kill something they have spent thousands rearing when we don't even export milk in any real quantity. It's more Project Fear nonsense and complete fabrications with the host conveniently forgetting about the former Chancellor Phillip Hammond being exposed by the BBC Panorama program admitting he did not tell businesses to prepare for No Deal, even though he's now telling us how disastrous it would be.
Let's expose these Remainer f+ckpigs' lies:
Of, course making out like 45,000 cows is a lot and expecting people to believe farmers would just kill something they have spent thousands rearing when we don't even export milk in any real quantity. It's more Project Fear nonsense and complete fabrications with the host conveniently forgetting about the former Chancellor Phillip Hammond being exposed by the BBC Panorama program admitting he did not tell businesses to prepare for No Deal, even though he's now telling us how disastrous it would be.
Let's expose these Remainer f+ckpigs' lies:
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