The Supreme Court has decided unanimously that the Prorogation of Parliament was unlawful and that the speaker of the HooC and the HoL can now recall Parliament.
I’ve listened to the Court’s verdict being read out by Supreme Justice Ms Hale, and got sicker and sicker while listening. This is a suitable time to document the first reactions from ordinary people who watched and listened live, as I did. They are from comments and from Twitter. I post them here, to show the mood, before the legal eagles get their comments going in the papers later today and overnight.
Let’s start with these:
“10:45 on the 24th September 2019. Parliamentary Democracy in the UK pronounced officially dead.”
“There is no peaceful way to leave the EU.”
‘Gina Miller rules the UK”
She of course had a little help from her financiers and the Supreme Court. Note also that the government has no right to appeal – but they can, irony of ironies, go to the ECJ!
“The people are no longer sovereign,a rotten parliament, corrupt foreign businessmen, corrupt lawyers, a corrupt UK Supreme Court and corrupt quangos, such as the Electoral Commission are sovereign. Pay your taxes, obey your masters: you have been told.”
“Vote for a referendum in the UK .. ignored. Vote for a politician in the UK .. they just change parties. So what now?”
Indeed – what now?
Here are some more well-known voices, quotes taken from their twitter accounts as they came in and caught my eyes:
Andrew Marr: “Queen now placed in the centre of the most sensational constitutional fight in modern history. We must expect that Bercow will call Commons back today. Conference season blown away. Over to Johnson in New York. Calls today for him to resign, may follow soon”
Douglas Carswell: “The Establishment is now going all out to overturn the referendum result”
Partick O’Flynn: “The judges at the Supreme Court have actually awarded themselves the right to decide if Parliament actually IS prorogued, not just if it should be. This country’s “unwritten” constitution is completely falling apart. A huge culture war and massive constitutional reform both loom.”
Paul Waugh: “Massive questions here for the No.10 team who advised Johnson and for the Attorney General. But the biggest Q is for the PM: shouldn’t misleading the Queen be a resigning matter?”
Adam Tomkins MSP: ” Important to note that it is the *effect* of the order to prorogue on whch the Court has focused, not the PM’s purpose or motivation. This is *not* about the PM “lying to” HM the Queen.”
Ian Birell: “Prepare now for a vicious hard-right assault on the judges & politicisation of the courts to divert attention from their leader’s grotesque misbehaviour that led us to this position”, answered directly by Andrew Williams: “Judges have deemed that they are political actors. Their appointment now inevitably becomes political. The culture wars have been taken up a notch by this decision.”
Toby Young: “The decision of the Supreme Court fundamentally alters the balance of power in our constitution in favour of the judiciary. If we’re going to have a US-style Supreme Court from now on, SC Justices will need to be appointed by the PM and there will have to be confirmation hearings
Stewart Wood: “There also has to be the most serious of questions asked about how the Attorney General could have given legal support for a prorogation of Parliament that the UK Supreme Court has unanimously declared unlawful. This seems a failure of the most fundamental kind.” Answer: “Because the SC is making new law.”
Sam Coates SKY News: “Here in New York No10 make clear they won’t be instantly responding. They need to digest the ruling, they say”, answered by Jason Scott Tilley: “He knew when this ruling was coming and he chose to be out of the UK.”
Of course, we all know that the UN planned their annual General Meeting just in time to comply with Johnson wanting be out of the UK! The idiocy – it burns!
I leave you with this latest tweet
SKY News: “I invite Boris Johnson to consider his position.” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the SupremeCourt ruling shows the PM has “acted wrongly in shutting down parliament and demonstrates a contempt for democracy and an abuse of power”.
He would say that, wouldn’t he – and how happy he must be to be able toe scape the cauldron that is the Labour AGM!
These quotes are just the first, momentary snapshots. They show that the Remain Establishment thinks they can now overturn the Referendum result.
This will not end well – the repercussions will be felt up and down the country but over the coming years and decades.
Lawyers are well known for ‘finding’ FOR the biggest payer aren’t they. Was that why they are like prostitutes misterpaul?
As usual I am late to the party, but seeing as Viv has alluded to the Corbyn speech this afternoon, and I for my sins watched it, he did indeed “do” for Bojo, but he didn`t go for a vote of No Confidence – I wonder why..
I also saw Trump`s speech at the UN
Anyway what struck me about the speech apart from the enormous Labour Money Tree, was that Trump spoke about the perils and evils of economic immigration to the very stability of independent nations and I didn`t hear a word from Corbyn which apart from return of COMPLETE Sovereignty was the underlying prime reason why the country was in the crisis and general Services mess that we are in.
Corbyn went on and on about the NHS and how Labour was going to introduce all these radical nostrums (free prescriptions – how many of the actual poor, aged or needy pay them?) and yet he didn`t appear to understand that while the population isn`t stabilized, there will never be sufficient money available to even keep it going in its present rotten state. and that goes for many other services too!.
I do hope Boris is keeping the Robin Do-Da proposition up his sleeve and metaphorically continues to stick two digits up to the Remain conspiracy. I know two wrongs are not supposed to make a “right”, but in view of the parliamentary shenanigans (and worse) by the Speaker etc. I think he is entitled to use any legerdemain after all we know lying is de rigueur in the EU.
A sensible appraisal of the dire current situation;
https://youtu.be/mVy61QH4gYg
The Next step is to force the government to resign. The ball is now in Mr Corbyn’s court. He has a stark choice. Is he going assist those who renege on their promise to deliver Brexit. If he does then it is political suicide for Labour, for the Lib Dems will take the place of Labour in the next Parliament.
I believe that John Major prorogued parliament when he was PM. It appears from this ruling that he acted UNLAWFULLY.I suggest that he be prosecuted for this action crowd funded as soon as possible.
Regards
Jerry
Of course Major should be prosecuted too and probably others) it’s all a silly Parliamentary game isn’t it?
Boris is still making all the right noises in New York with a confident speech about free trade in the UN lobby to businessmen.
He’s still saying we leave on October 31st. I believe it.
In the meantime, Nigel Farage (worried about what relevance he has after Oct 31st and where his money will come from ) viciously attacks Johnson and states that we WILL NOT be out of the EU on that date. What’s that all about ??
Now we know what side he and TBP are really on. Noses in the trough, they want the EU debate to continue for as long as possible, to line their own pockets with very lucrative MEP salaries and perks and in NFs case, radio and media contracts.
Follow the money.
Mr Bav – with respect – rubbish. If it weren’t for NF and the Brexit Party there would be no chance that we would be leaving the EU.
Where will his money come from? I suggest he is wealthier than you or I could ever dream of without taking any of the EU’s money (ie our money). Your comment sounds very much like frothing, foaming, spitting, choking, eye-watering envy – most unattractive.
I totally endorse what L. Jones says here. UKIPPERS like Bavo should try to suppress their seething envy of Farage and TBP for gaining the mass support that UKIP, without Farage and with nightmarish internal management dysfunction have dismally failed to gain.
I have been saying as much for some time. Whilst I will hold my nose and vote tactically, there must be an election soon, I always believed NF was not interested in getting out of the trough.
OMG. Someone did warn us the EU had appointed the supreme court. Wasn’t it Bliar that sneaked that one through. This is so obviously ridiculous. a) If Boris resigned we would have a totally unelected Remain Government. b) He has offered a GE and been prevented from having it. c) It seems that he has been prevented from getting the ‘No Deal’ brexit which is actually what the referendum was about. d) We will be offered another referendum which is actually between Remain or Remain.
How is it that The People are so blind that they have learned nothing from all the other countries that have tried referendums and had to keep voting again until they got it ‘right’. Somehow please, please get us out of this ridiculous situation. CAN BORIS SOMEHOW JUST GET US OUT 31/10 NO DEAL?
Pauline – to my mind you are articulating the questions millions of us are asking – Yes, I know Farage is no angel – but like him personally or not – he and The Brexit Party appear to speak for the Majority, So – for God’s sake – put it to the to the REAL test – a General Election.
If we look at the history of decisions by Judges – we can easily find another eleven who will find for Johnson – The Judicial System is simply a comical, money consuming lottery, and certainly reflects the state of ‘justice’ in this country. What did they say about Lawyers and Prostitutes? Some things NEVER change.
Seems like the Fourth Reich is succeeding where the three earlier ones failed!
you may be more wright than you know!
Too true Viv, we now live in the eu but voted leave and would again as would many of our friends. Now judges should be voted in and every 2 years., for things like this we could have a selection of normal people to use common sense.
So now we are governed by 11 unelected judges who are, no doubt, so far removed from reality in their own lives that they are devoid of any common sense. They must be satisfied that they will remain subservient to EU law should Brexit be allowed to fail. Will they then be willing to judge against the government for not complying with the will of the people as expressed by the referendum?
Toby Young: “The decision of the Supreme Court fundamentally alters the balance of power in our constitution in favour of the judiciary.”
WRONG. The Constitution is unchanged. Power remains with the people and not with institutions. We need to take people like Caroline Lucas (and others) to task for stupidly advocating that if you don’t like the constitution you’ve got, let’s write another one. It will be a statute but we can call it a constitution until somebody spots the difference.
As this is the silly season Boris may like to appeal to the ECJ. This action would put beyond doubt the answer to the fundamental question “Who governs Britain”?
There is only one Supreme Court in the e.u ( of which we are still a paid up member ) and that is is Luxembourg, I’m just now waiting to see what happens to Boris tomorrow, or will he jump first which I think unlikely, maybe as May is still an M.P she will be invited back as some sort of caretaker. In this mad world that the London elite seems to have joined anything could happen. Whatever , I can’t see this ending nicely .
Not a good idea I would have thought, to alienate a huge number of the population, try to bring down the elected P.M and government, and questioning the decisions of the monarchy. Interesting times ahead.
KBO.
Kick Bercow Out.
Would that be Bercow the Rule Maker or Bercow the Rule Breaker ? “Ooops, I didn’t know I had to register my company Fedhead Ltd, so sorry for my ignorance of the rules, I’m only the Speaker”. Yeah, right.