Wednesday 25 September 2019

Labour disappoints, Supreme Court delights




Labours conference decision on Monday to be indecisive and remain on the fence re Brexit  will undoubtedly benefit we Liberal Democrats if an election takes place before a People’s Vote.  Nevertheless, as a dedicated Liberal/Liberal Democrat activist for nearly 60 years I should have preferred Labour to make a clear decision in favour of Remain.  Then we could have seen 23rd September as the date the tide turned positively in favour of our chances of putting an end to this act of national self-harm which will irrevocably damage our political, economic, social  and cultural futures, along with the living standards of many Labour's loyal voters.
Why is it that Mr Corbyn and his supporters cannot recognise that leaving the EU is simply a plot by which series of fortuitous chances  (Cameron’s fear of UKIP, a complacent parliament which failed to include normal safeguards in the rules for the Referendum0, a hugely biased press, much of it owned by foreign-based tax avoiders, illegal expenditure, lies  and dubious practices via digital targeting, not to mention the possibility  of foreign interference) have enabled a tiny clique of the Tory elite to gain temporary control of the machinery of government in order to establish a neo-liberal off-shore island for their own economic benefit.
 All power to Labour's Remainers to to come on board the Exit-Brexit alliance and bring more of their party with them,  even if this does lead to a less convincing performance in the next election for we Liberal Democrats.
 In other words, I'm prepared to but the national interest before my party's interest as , I suspect, would most Liberal Democrats.
 Corbyn et al shamefully and misguidedly do the reverse




By contrast Tuesday's (24th September) unanimous Supreme Court ruling that our prime minister acted unlawfully in using residual prerogative powers to prorogue parliament certainly makes up for Monday's disappointment.

This is a moment of genuinely historic significance. Britain's shambolic uncodified constitution is actually working and, for, as far as I know, for the first time in our history a British prime minister has been declared to have acted unlawfully be our own judicial system.   

We should declare every 24th September  a National  Holiday  and  could call it Constitution Day.

What now happens is anyone's guess.  Ideally I should like our present parliamentarians, their powers restored,   grasp the nettle,  and Revoke Article 50 here and now.  They could do it before the end of the week.

6 comments:

  1. Corbyn is a Brexiteer.He wants his revolution.He too will be a disaster for the country.It seems to me winning no matter the cost to the country and its people is everything. Hedge funds and assit strippers are hoping for us to leave for the juicy pickings afterwards.

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  2. Corbyn is a Brexiteer.He wants his revolution.He too will be a disaster for the country.It seems to me winning no matter the cost to the country and its people is everything. Hedge funds and assit strippers are hoping for us to leave for the juicy pickings afterwards.

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    1. Thanks Nigel: that's something we need to get over to the electorate, either in a People's Vote or a general election, namely, Brexit is for the benefit the hedge-funds and asset strippers, not the common people.

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    2. I have nothing to do with any hedge fund nor have I ever stripped anything but wallpaper, and I desperately want the UK to leave the European Union. So, you know, that's wrong.

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  3. Remainers can win every fight that doesn't involve actually consulting the people… but you can't hide from the electorate for ever.

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    1. Opinion polls show that in a people's vote on Europe, Remain would win, though not by the substantial margin I'd like. As for a general election, I'm afraid you're right. The polls, for the moment, show the Tories well ahead. I find that hard to understand. How big a mess can a government make and still be ahead of the official opposition? Part of the answer lies in the bias of the press against any Labour leader, as we've see with Kinnock, Ed Milliband and now Corbyn.

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