Sir,
Apparently it is illegal for the Prime Minister to seek to avoid scrutiny of his efforts to obtain some sort of deal with the EU. However, it is not illegal for the main political parties to run for election on manifestos which they have no intention of honouring.
The Fixed Term Parliament Act prevents the – – nominal – – government from cutting and running by appealing once more to the electorate, which anyway they would do, no doubt, with more promises which would be discarded once the election was over.
I’ve been delivering The Brexiteer around my local villages and several residents have told me that it’s not worth voting. I tell them that yes, it is, but only if they vote to punish those who have betrayed their residents , their country and their honour.
May I offer the same advice to your readers? Vote to punish. Vote to chastise. Vote to teach the political class that we are the masters.
Enough is enough.
Respectfully, Julian Flood
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Sir,
The DT reported (14/09/19) that the PM won’t entertain a Tory/Brexit Party pact. That will be music to the ears of those working towards a Lib/Lab/SNP coalition, which would lead to another referendum.Since most Labour Leave voters will be unable to hold their noses, long enough to vote for even for a Brexiteer Tory, the PM would be conceding little by handing Labour held Brexit voting constituencies, to the Brexit Party.
It is not rocket science and this is surely the time not to gamble on current opinion polls (as Mrs May did) – splitting the Brexit vote in the process – but to put your country first. So please think again Boris and don’t just do what your adviser says.
“Boris Johnson has insisted there will be no election pact with Nigel Farage just days after Jacob Rees-Mogg said Brexiteers “owe him a great debt”. On Monday night, the Prime Minister said the Conservative Party will contest the election in every seat as he brushed off suggestions the Tories need the Brexit Party’s support in order to win.” (Quote from the DT)
But if BJ comes up with a new WAB trap, without a unilateral means of escape, then all Brexiteers are likely to support the BP.
Respectfully, Roger Arthur
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Sir,
It is clear that Brexit Blocker MPs don’t want a General Election – until after they have humiliated the PM – by forcing him to accept another Article 50 extension. Then they think they will have a much better chance of a hung Parliament (with the Brexit vote split) with of a Lib/Lab/SNP coalition and another referendum.
As the Attorney General declared, this “Parliament is a dead Parliament” and said “it has no moral right to sit on these green benches”. He accused the MPs of having blocked 17.4 million peoples’ votes before telling the House: “This Parliament is a disgrace”. Mr Cox accused the MPs of cowardice as he said they could call a vote of no confidence at any time. “They could agree to a motion to allow this House to dissolve but they are too cowardly,” he said.
Note that: he did not believe that any prorogation “in the last 50 to 100 years … would have survived the Supreme Court’s ruling.”
Yes, read that again.
Respectfully, Mr King
Boris won’t do a pact with the Brexit Party because he cannot: he wants to reheat Theresa May’s Vassalage Treaty. He has made it clear he would consider no deal to be a failure. He also knows that the Brexit Party would make delivering a clean Brexit an absolute pre-condition for doing any kind of a deal. So this is the real reason he won’t do a deal with them: he doesn’t want a real Brexit any more than does Anna Soubry — I’m afraid.
All accusers in the Boris prorogation debacle are indeed the perpetrators. There has never been a British government so stymied by our own Parliament that rushed through the most debilitating Act within a mere fortnight of a new Prime Minister taking office!
Where is the British pragmatism, the courage to uphold responsibility and for doing their duty by their constituency? On what manifesto did each and every one of those rebel MPs got elected to represent their electorate? Should they now resign if their policies are no longer fit for purpose?
How and when did our Parliament degenerate to the extend where Cabinet Ministers are bound and gagged, held to ransom to allow those rebels total freedom to run amock, to abuse Parliamentary privileges and democracy in cahoot with the 11 Supreme Court judges and the biased Speaker of the House to unlawfully rushed through an Act to betray the 17.4 million British citizens, who in good faith voted in the 2016 EU referendum to Leave the EU. There was no stipulation requiring a deal to Leave. It merely warned the electorate to think carefully of our choice and promised the majority vote will be legally carried to fruition.
With those rebel MPs betraying their manifestos and therefore in contempt of Parliamentary privileges and representation, the Supreme Court should have found them wanting, disqualified from sitting, let alone trying to thwart the Prime Minister in carrying out his duty in accordance with the referendum result. This Supreme Court has a duty of care to promulgate the Democratic standing of Great Britain not just in Europe but as the fifth largest economy in the world, where forty-five years ago we traded and interacted globally with more than 100 countries, setting a fine example of tolerance, compliance and a veritable beacon of leadership.
It is regrettable that those rebel MPs, having betraying their constituencies also managed to collude with the Speaker of the House to under-handedly hoodwink Supreme Court Judges to overlook their disqualification in terms of their manifestos, to pass judgement on the new Prime Minister battling against so many illegal rebels that he had to prorogue Parliament just to be able to take his first step towards fulfilling his duty to the majority, who voted Leave. They have waited over three years, even whilst 80% of their domestic businesses have stagnated for decades, pending free world-trade and fishery. Most lives had been in tatters, putting up with food banks, acute over-crowding in schools, clinics, hospitals and housing, patiently waiting until this government could take us out of the EU, to save our industries and spend the £39billion saved from EU-with-no-deal on our depleted, cash-strapped National Services.
Is it too much to ask for our taxes to be spent on our own necessities? It is time to look into whether our 650 MPs are value for money when over half of 64million are Just Able to Manage after paying their taxes, but many more are being helped by charities and food banks. And as for the Supreme Court Judges, are they fit for purpose? Or are they on EU benefit like the universities and Scotland?
The Attorny General’s speech in the House was 100%. I actually laughed out loud at his jibes to the brexit blockers. Boris’ speech also 100%. I’m sure we are going to escape 31/10 and I’m pretty sure it will be a real exit, probably ‘no deal’. You must admit folks no matter what the remainers throw at them this government still come back fighting.
I have little time for Mr Cox, the Attorney General, due to his finger prints being all over the Tommy Robinson matter, but I saw him on the Parliament Channel yesterday, and he played a blinder !
The Fixed Term Parliament Act is a nonsense as has been shown now. – This needs correction ASAP ! ….. The Opposition not being keen on a General Election, tells us all we need to know about Labour, and the other rubbish !
PM Johnson is doing his best for Brexit, but is like a bull at a gate ! ….. He and Farage are like two kids in a big willy contest, and effectively if allowed to continue, the Brexit vote will be split in a General Election. – This will be a gift to the rubbish parties of the remain ilk with a stupid EU deal, and those two guys will be responsible for an unwanted outcome !
Can someone knock their heads together please, or maroon them together on a deserted island until they see sense ? !
Julian – Voting in the manner accepted as ‘normal’ means, first and foremost, voting for a Party and the full contents of that party’s manifesto. We are unable to vote that way and then pick and choose which parts of the manifesto we like and which we don’t. We are unable to vote for a person for as long as that person is a party member, therefore unable to ‘vote to chastise’ or ‘vote to punish’ – two suggestions that are utterly negative, and ‘the Party’ doesn’t care anyway.
David Cameron must have thought that the leaflet he sent out to the country would be viewed as a Tory (or any other!) Manifesto. No! Decidedly No. The country knew it was not a Manifesto but a solemn PROMISE. Nothing this man says can ever be trusted. Of course in order to try and fully renage on HIS promises he ran away. But for some peculiar reason he thinks he can fool all,of the people all of the time – some people never learn.