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Today, the High Court has ruled that Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU. Apparently, we cannot Brexit without triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. This ruling is insisting that the government cannot trigger this process on its own.
Theresa May says the referendum – and existing ministerial powers – mean MPs do not need to vote, but Bremain campaigners called this unconstitutional.
The government is appealing, with a further hearing expected next month. And this should amuse you: it would seem that they are appealing to the European Court! The increasingly farcical situation that the UK has found itself is beautifully captured by John “Two Jags” Prescott:
Leavers: 'Give us parliamentary sovereignty!'
High Court: 'MPs must vote on Article 50
Leavers: 'We'll appeal to European Court of Justice!'— John Prescott (@johnprescott) November 3, 2016
Prime Minister Theresa May insists that she will not let this parliamentary ping-pong delay or “derail Article 50 or the timetable we have set out. We are determined to continue with our plan”. We’re not sure exactly how she plans to ride roughshod over a ruling, but this is Great Britain. Anything can happen.
Lily-livered, yellow-bellied UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he feared a “betrayal” of the 51.9% of voters who backed leaving the EU in June’s referendum and voiced concern at the prospect of a “half Brexit”. The more important question is: is anyone still listening to this PAID MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT after he led faintly bigoted and certainly deluded Brexiters to a decision and then bailed? Not for me to call him a scoundrel and a comprehensive idiot, but surely the people who once agreed with him must now see that there are barrels of fart made of less hot air than Nigel Farage?
After all said and done, the drama continues. I have said and still maintain that Britain cannot Brexit in the total way that was proposed in the referendum – if she can at all.
This is not Ghana Must Go. This is not like leaving a lover after a summer’s fling. The finances, legalities, PEOPLE, human lives, marriages and migration involved is too complex to be anything as straightforward as “Keeping Britain British” – whatever that means in a world where Spaniards are married to English men who have stepmothers who are part Belgian and part German. And who all work on this fair isle.
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So May wants to do what she wants irrespective of the rule of law and Prescott wants to appeal to the European courts.
You couldn’t make this stuff up even if you tried.
Precisely. Too much time spent watching Corrie, the whole country has turned into a soap opera.
Swear down!! ðð
It’s just unbelievable. An unelected PM wants to take it upon on herself to make decisions that will have effects on the whole country for decades to come. Make everybody go sleep abeg.
Walahi!
I thought the whole point of Brexit was to regain Parliamentary constitutional supremacy over Europe on British matters. But Theresa May wants to countermand exactly that??
Yes, because now, there’s a decision that is not going her/their way.
Kinda like “I want feminism, but it ain’t like I’m trying to pay for my own shit or nothing. Never that!”
Well said, Rachel, in that wonderfully descriptive way you have … ð
Hahahah, it’s a mess in here (my mind) but it has its uses, Ify! x
Ify Onwudiwe-Soluade exactly. And the irony is that all the European legislation will be written into British law anyways. It’s just unbelievable.
As a friend of mine would say – “I fitn’t laugh.” ð This whole #Brexit saga pass me, Tunde. Wedda na Naija (the #Chanji programme), wedda na US (with the Trumpster), wedda na UK with #Brexit – na siddon look mode I dey so. E be like say effribodi don craze finish. ð
iSigh
My dear my thots exactly!! Make we watch the drama as it enfolds
Wait first o. On a totally unrelated note. So you mean there is a possibility I will wake up and Trump will be President of America? Beht biko bia, why are you American people like dis na? Is it that upon as we begged you people reach, it’s still not enough? Please na. Na beg we dey beg.
Very likely. With all the FBI and other nonsense coming out. And people that will not go to vote. Abeg, where is the rocket leaving for Mars? I tire for this world people.
Sigh.
God forbid it
Looking like it. That is purpose of the so called FBI revelations – to discourage the people that would have voted for HRC and encourage those still sitting on the fence to vote Trump
Toh. Tired.
Ha ha ha ð±ð±ð±ð±ð±
Rachel, you have plenty sense na… That’s why you are saying this…
My dear, who sense epp? We’re still in the mess..upon sense and sensibility.
E reach to cry.
Na Buhari matter and American options make the matter serious. Poor options everywhere… ðððð
Zero options. Everything is just smelling
So rogodiyan upandan the universe sef, Aliens haf overthrow human beans now o.. person no sabi who be who sef again
So, we now have a situation where those that were shouting the loudest about the independence of our Parliament are now moaning about letting them actually exercise that independence? Couldn’t make it up
…nor is it, as in the case of the dirty rotten scoundrel called Farage, like leaving the Dog & Dark Pub after downing your customary pint(s)
Quite!