It will not be surprising if the Leave victory in the EU Referendum of 23rd June 2016 is overruled, because the British government itself is opposed to leaving the European Union. Most if not all Leave ministers have now resigned or been sacked. Their Department for Exiting the European Union (DEXU) has been bypassed by the Remain team of Theresa May & Olly Robbins in Downing Street, as has the Cabinet also when necessary.
There are 650 MPs in the House of Commons. It is the House in Parliament that matters because the Lords cannot stop Bills from the Commons for more than two years. 480 of the MPs in the Commons campaigned for Remain in the run-up to the EU Referendum. Only 158 Commons MPs campaigned for Leave. Three-fourths of the Commons were for Remain, including all but ten Labour MPs, and yet Leave won the 2016 Referendum with the biggest ever vote in British history. That shows how alien Parliament in Westminster was then to the British people, and it is certainly no less alien now.
Mrs May campaigned for Remain, so did Philip Hammond the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and so did John Bercow the Speaker, although the Speaker is supposed to be impartial. Contrary to Donald Tusk’s recent claim, they do have a plan; their plan is to stop Brexit. Mrs May knew that Article 50 was introduced into the Lisbon Treaty as a snare to catch countries trying to escape from the European Union.
That is why she started the Article 50 negotiations because she knew their purpose was to stop Brexit. And the Withdrawal Agreement she has negotiated with the EU will keep Britain captive in a stagnating EU until the end of 2099 (see Article 132 in her Agreement). The EU Commission knows that British firms in an independent free-trading Britain outside the EU Customs Union would soon become too competitive for EU exporters. So, the Commission must keep the UK a prisoner inside the Customs Union to stop it making its own trade agreements with the free world outside the EU. After all, since the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 the EU’s share of world trade has halved in volume, from a third to a sixth, as the cesspit of corruption that is the EU stagnates.
If Mrs May had wanted Britain to leave the EU, she would have unilaterally and unconditionally declared Britain’s independence from it when she became Prime Minister. It was her right to do that; national self-determination is a fundamental right in international law. Britain could have left the EU before 2017 and begun to trade with the EU under the terms of trade of the World Trade Organisation, like the rest of the world does now.
But after 23rd June 2016, Mrs May and other EU enforcers in the British government realised that the British people could no longer be trusted to submit to EU rule. The agents of the EU in Her Majesty’s Government are determined that nothing like the 2016 Referendum will be allowed to happen again. The dictatorial Joint Committee in their misnamed Withdrawal Agreement will end the pretense that there has been of parliamentary sovereignty since 1972. Then it was that the House of Commons voted to serve Brussels rather than the British people when it passed Edward Heath’s European Communities Bill.
The 23rd June 2016 came as a profound shock to the EU retainers who comprise our government; they were sure that Remain would win. They had sent a booklet from Her Majesty’s Government to every household in Britain. Its title was “Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for the UK”. In it, they wrote: “This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide.” That’s how confident they were. That booklet cost £9 million pounds of taxpayers’ money. Whitehall signed off the tax to pay for it, even though civil servants are supposed to be impartial about politics.
The Remain campaign, funded by bankers like Goldman Sachs, outspent the Leave campaign by £19 million to £11 million, according to the Electoral Commission. Opinion polls and betting odds foretold a Remain victory. But in the privacy of the polling booth, people felt free to express their true feelings, and the immense chasm between the British people and their alien Parliament in Westminster was revealed.
Mrs May, who might as well be a member of Common Purpose, was one of the 480 MPs who declared themselves for Remain before 23rd June 2016. So most MPs were in favour of the elected leaders of Britain’s Parliament passing off the policies of unelected EU Commissioners as their own. And that is what Mrs May is doing now; her misnamed Agreement is the policy of EU bureaucrats and their counterparts in Whitehall. It is not the will of the British people.
Her response to the British rebellion against EU rule on 23rd June 2016 is a “coup d’état” at the start of the transition period. That is when the Joint Committee in her falsely named Withdrawal Agreement will take back control for the EU, not from it (see Articles 164 to 169). From then on, that secretive junta will be the custodian keeping Britain captive as a colonial possession of the EU empire until the end of this century.
After their shock defeat in the UK Referendum on 23rd June 2016, the EU and its myriad henchmen (& hench-women) in Westminster & Whitehall have decided to suppress democracy and install the dictatorship of their Joint Committee junta over Britain. The EU Referendum was our Revolution, the falsely named Withdrawal Treaty is their Counter-Revolution.
I love your analysis Ralph and you could easily be right, but I don’t see why May doesn’t agree to a second referendum and make sure this time that by hook or by crook, Remain wins – after all, that’s the EU way, isn’t it. We’ve all seen how any vote that goes against the bloc is rerun until the ‘right’ result is attained. But she’s steadfastly refused the ‘People’s vote’; it would be very easy for her to give in.
I think she’s waiting until the day before Brexit day when she’ll offer MPs her Withdrawal Bill or ‘no deal’ and dare them to vote against her Bill. I hope Brexiteers hold their nerve and vote against her; we’ve got to do some serious lobbying if that happens.
The only way any ‘People’s Vote’ or second referendum is going to happen is if the EU agrees to extend the Article 50 ‘negotiations’.
Likewise, if we were to go ‘begging’ to the EU to extend the Article 50 negotiations, I am pretty sure that demands for this second referendum, “People’s Vote” or even a General Election would be included in the terms of agreeing this extension.
I have previously commented about how I believed Theresa May would ‘surrender’ using the excuse of how she “had no choice”, but I now believe she has turned the tables and put it back to the HoC, so they will be put in the position of “having no choice” but to agree to her lousy Withdrawal Agreement, as a preference to “crashing out with No-Deal”.
I agree with you, and I believed this myself some time ago, that it really will all come “down to the wire”, and something is going to come along and put a spanner in the whole works, if May cannot get her lousy WA voted through Parliament.
The Agreement that Mrs May is trying get through the Commons is available online. Article 166 clause 2 in it says that the decisions of the Joint Committee are binding on the EU & UK. So the JC overrules the UK government. Article 174 says that the Court of Justice of the EU has the final word in resolving disputes between the EU & UK sides on the JC. So the UK side of the JC is just there as window dressing, because the CJEU will always back the EU side. The EU keeps all its powers over the UK from the start of the Transition Period (Article 131), but the UK loses the vote or veto on all EU bodies (Article 7). So there will be an EU dictatorship by the JC over the UK from the start of the transition period. It can extend that dictatorship until 31st December 2099 (Article 132).This dictatorship will operate in secret (Annex Vlll clause 10).
Come back Guy Fawkes . All is forgiven
Ralph – you may well be right, although I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll just about manage to escape. You’re right, our government and Theresa May in particular never had any intention of letting us leave the EU and still don’t, it makes me feel sick watching this deceitful behavior and utter contempt for the people that they’re meant to represent.
If you’re right and we’re not going to be allowed to leave the sinking ship that is the EU, then we should make sure that we send our mainstream political parties along with it when it finally sinks.
Vote, support and join UKIP is the only answer. Conservative and Labour Party Leavers should be throwing in their membership cards in droves and joining us. If not, then they can hardly complain of a fudged Brexit.
Totally agree with you.
Some hope of that happening, Come the next election the electorate will flock ( if they bother ) to the polls and vote how they have always done. Someone quoted his constituency yesterday on another blog. 69% leave, then elected a Labour M.P. (remainer apparently) TWICE. As for UKIP if my area is anything to go by I can’t see much hope of any change .
The swamp and inertia is everywhere and very deep.
I fear also voters might be duped by the new “farage” party the sole effect of which would be a safety valve for angry voters while saving the Tories from annihilation. Voters just might wake up when the effects of the Global Migration Pact start to be felt, and as the EU ship sinks taking us with it. I feel very sorry for future generations who are being condemned to an appalling future by the present voters.
My Tory MP supports everything May does including the WA, and has told me many lies eg that it regains us control of borders and frees us from the ECJ; he fully supports the threat to our liberties posed by the WA…….yet always gets a huge majority. I despair.
One has to wonder whose side Farage is really on. I suspect that Farage is for Farage and little else nowadays. Even, as you imply, “his” new party is not his at all but he will simply use it for his own benefit, whilst handing the advantage to the enemy through splitting the vote.
If the Withdrawal Agreement gets through, there won’t be any more elections; the UK will be run by the joint committee, ie EU!