202 MPs voted on 15th January 2019 for Mrs May’s misnamed Withdrawal Agreement. So she needs another 124 votes to be sure of smuggling an amended version of it into whatever shabby compromise is eventually agreed in Westminster.
Mrs May’s Agreement may have been voted down. But so was the Constitution of the European Union in the French and Dutch Referendums. It reappeared as the Treaty of Lisbon. The EU Commission always overrules democracy in the end. You can be sure that we have not seen the last of Mrs May’s misnamed Withdrawal Agreement.
So the dictatorial junta known as the Joint Committee that lurked within the 585 pages of her original Agreement could still survive, and no MPs have brought it to the attention of the public. Well, the BBC has not reported any MP as mentioning it. Although Mrs May’s misnamed Withdrawal Agreement is available online, the BBC treats the Junta within it as if it were Top Secret classified information.
What will life be like under the junta? Well for a start it overrules our Parliament in Westminster and the entire British government. It overrules our executive, legislature & judiciary. It is supposedly a joint European Union & United Kingdom committee, but the EU side on the Committee will always have the upper hand over the UK side. That is because the EU Court of Justice will always have the final word in disputes on this Joint Committee junta after the farce of the Arbitration Panel is over.
As the Joint Committee junta will operate in secret, we may not be told who its members are, probably for their own protection. The junta is not likely to be popular, because the Agreement clearly installs it as a dictatorship over the British people, to suppress any future rebellion against EU rule like that of 23rd June 2016. After the EU side of the Joint Committee extends the life of the junta to the end of this century, the European Gendarmerie Force will probably enter the UK to suppress civil unrest.
Dissent against Junta rule in the press could be suppressed by punitive laws like those recommended by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson at his Inquiry into our popular newspapers. Remember when Jeremy Corbyn said that “change is coming” for the press, he knows what change that will be. And remember also Jeremy’s total opposition to a No Deal Brexit, which is the only way to escape from the EU. He is a Brussels man, just as Mrs May is a Brussels woman.
The Junta is called the Joint Committee in the Agreement. It will overrule the British government and Parliament, as Clause 2 of Article 166 in the Agreement says that its decisions “will be binding” on the EU & UK. And its proceedings will be “confidential”, in other words, secret (Clause 10 of Annex VIII).
Articles 164 to 169 give this Joint Committee junta total power over the fulfillment of the Agreement over the transition period, a process that will include most things that matter. And Article 132 gives the Joint Committee the power to extend the Transition Period “until the 31st December 20XX”.
Naturally, the EU side of the Committee will want to extend the Transition Period until 31st December 2099. The UK side of the Committee may dispute that, but the Court of Justice of the EU has the last word over any disputes on the Joint Committee (see Articles 168 & 174). And the Court of Justice will always rule in favour of the EU side … and overrule the UK side on crucial matters. So the Court of Justice will extend the transition period until 31st December 2099.
Article 131 allows all EU councils and other bodies, including the EU Court of Justice, to retain their powers over Britain in the transition period. But Article 7 denies Britain any voting rights in any bodies of the EU in the transition period. So we will have no veto before the end of this century against any EU laws and regulations that damage Britain.
No wonder Mrs May did not mention the Joint Committee junta that is lurking in her misnamed Withdrawal Agreement. The junta could still be present in the remains of her Agreement that are smuggled into any future compromise that eventually gets through the Commons. In spite of its first defeat in the Commons on 15th January 2019 the fundamentals of her Agreement voted down on that day are likely to remain in any amended version eventually passed by the Commons.
The EU Commission never gives up and is determined to suppress democracy in Britain in response to our rebellion of 23rd June 2016. Mrs May’s Agreement is likely to be the basis of a new written constitution for Britain during the transition period. Remember that in the House of Commons 202 MPs voted for Mrs May’s Agreement with its imposition of the rule of this dictatorial junta over Britain.
Those 202 are the natural successors to the MPs who voted through the European Communities Bill in 1972 and the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. Like people at the BBC, they do not much care for freedom and democracy, or for most of the British people at all.
Thank you Mr. Prothero. This is a timely reminder of how truly ghastly the poisonous Maybot capitulation document is, with or without the “backstop”. Boris, Mogg, DUP, all now seem disposed to waft it through if the backstop is altered. So, quite possible this treacherous document, merely an Agreement to discuss a deal, will be the way we leave IN NAME ONLY having surrendered even more control to the oligarchs and Merkel.
More needs to be said about the empire that has been and will continue to control us and what we shall be letting ourselves in for if we do not leave in March with a WTO no deal.
An interesting article on Gatestone re the coming EU army:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13620/france-germany-european-army
Let me get this straight in my head.
1. Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement which she wants us to agree says.
2.Forms a “Joint Committee” Note Has no other name. To oversee The border with S Ireland ( EU ).
3.Secrecy of members. Secrecy of discussions ( Like UKIP )
4..Equal EU and GB ( And we can guess about them ) members.
5 In case of disagreement Refer subject to Any EU Bodies or councils including ECJ During transition period ( can be extended forever )
6. As now, in the transition period, UK Gov’t, courts, etc etc will all be subjected to the EU
7.. easily morphed into EU forevever
7a.No police Now EU Gendarmerie
7b.No more Cornwall or Yorkshire. You will be Lands End, Region 5, , EU western Coastal Administration
7c.No Great Britain .. Banned on letters etc..,( divisive )
We will officially be part of the Great European Empire.
All that from a miserable Iron coal and steel customs fiddle.
As the UKIP slogan says; “Support, vote, join UKIP. If not now WHEN”?
I’ve been a UKIP member for almost a year now. Owing to its lacklustre performance I doubt that I will be renewing. Fortunately my MP is a Brexiteer so will continue to get my vote.
Hi Jack, I think that’s going to be the view of a lot of people. However unless your MP sticks his or her neck out and speaks out (most are useless) then the same-old-party loyalties will lead to a fudge.
We must make it clear to self -serving politicians of all parties (including UKIP) that the only support they will get from us is when they listen to what we have already said.
I found it bizarre that people like Rees-Mogg didn’t vote down May ( the no confidence vote ) after the catastrophic Withdrawal Agreement was voted down. As long as she remains, the Tories will not risk an election but as long as she remains will will never leave Europe.
Richard Drax, the MP or South Dorset wrote in the Dorset Echo recently that he only voted to support the Government against Corbyn’s motion of no confidence because he and others had assurances that the ‘No deal’ option would remain on the table.
Good to hear, UKIP has been / is going through a period of self pruning and it is proving beneficial to the party
and putting the party in fit form for the coming battles.
My personal thoughts on your pro Brexiteer MP is he can be wearing a stack of halos on his nut but all such
politico’s actions, if any come to nought, when meeting the hydra head and co, in-house.
Curiosity begs me to ask, post leaving will the anti UKIP whinge abate or rev up.
Well at least I see in today’s update by GB that action is planned outside Parliament so I don’t have to ask my usual question “where is UKIP?” – hardly an anti-UKIP whinge.
JT,
“Continue to get your vote” does that mean that as a UKIP member your vote has gone elsewhere ?
and seemingly now your support for the party is following.
Over this year we have had the farage plant getting the hard word, Gerard Batten stepping very timely into the leadership, asking for much needed financy in the shape of £100,000 thousand
and receiving £300,000 the party in the black financially and membership rising on a daily basis.
Can your local MPs party better that.
Ogga 1, that is a good question, people seem to forget that we don’t have any MP’s therefore, limited in what actions we can take apart from speaking out. We have to put our money where our mouth’s are and give as much support as we can to Gerard when he requests it, therefore, I have booked next Tuesday off work to go and stand outside Parliament with him and Mike Hookem, therefore losing a days pay. But I don’t mind as I would rather be doing something positive to help than sitting at home moaning about it all, we do need many more Brexit supporters outside the HOC when these important votes are taking place. Come on, come out and join us, there will be a good atmosphere even if it is cold that day!
Well said and well done Deborah.
D,
Afraid I will not be in London until the following Thursday, the pair of us did make the EGM meeting in Birmingham to assist in giving bolton the well deserved hard word, and came away from that meeting well pleased when Gerard Batten took the leadership.
We do plenty of pavement bashing on the East coast delivering the message
every little helps.
Best wishes for Tuesday, ogga1.
Well said Ogga1.
Spot on!
See us there Jack!
I haven’t had an opportunity to vote whilst a UKIP member. At the last election a vote for UKIP would have been wasted and it would not have taken many to shift the victory to Labour, so I consider my action in voting Conservative was justified. (https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2017/results)
This is the problem UKIP faces. Whilst I am broadly supportive of UKIP the party clearly has a long way to go in attracting sufficient votes to get an MP into Parliament. GB seems a good guy but he made a tactical error in voicing support for SYL at this time. He should have anticipated the reaction from the MSM and a wiser leader would have chosen a better time for that alliance.
I am of course vehemently opposed to the Islamisation of our country but have no hope of our dealing with that problem as a member of the EU.