Is it a distraction from Boris Johnson’s failure to deliver and failure to keep his word?
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is making another call for an early General Election, this time for 12th December this year. This is after a previous attempt failed. The argument for these calls has been to “get Brexit done,” but is it a valid one?
The PM indeed was elected as the leader of the Conservative party at least partly on this slogan, but what has he actually done to bring this about since then?
It is undoubtedly true that he has had to contend with a Parliament which is dominated by an assortment of remainers, but he knew that before he became Prime Minister.
Those who defend his inability to deliver on Brexit state that in reality he has an ace up his sleeve and using that will ensure Brexit happens. There is no evidence of the existence of such a card and time is running out.
Who is to blame for not delivering Brexit? Parliament? Boris Johnson? Or both?
Already, Boris Johnson is blaming Parliament for the failure to deliver Brexit, despite him being fully aware of the odds stacked against him.
Although much of the mainstream media is being compliant with the Downing Street message that the Prime Minister has achieved “the impossible” and negotiated a “deal” with the EU, the reality of what this means is becoming revealed to the British public.
Johnson deal: a sell-out of Brexit?
Nigel Farage of The Brexit Party correctly stated that this “deal” is 95% Theresa May’s “deal,” and most of the rest of the difference is the sell- out on the unity of the United Kingdom.
Yes, Boris Johnson was prepared to do the unthinkable, and surrender so one of the Home countries effectively has a different EU connection to that of the rest of the UK. He was prepared to be duplicitous and dump his Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP) allies, all for the sake of getting a “deal.”
Have Tory Brexiters neutralised themselves by their actions?
This, as well as other important appalling aspects about the “deal,” should have raised warning signs among the small band of Conservative MP’s who the public had perceived as standing up for a clean break Brexit.
Sadly, no more. One by one, these MP’s, “Spartans” and others, queued up to support and defend this Conservative party caving in to the EU.
To watch this was unedifying, excruciating and frankly embarrassing.These were people we put our faith in, and in a matter of a day, they lost our support and respect, and they grossly let down the Leave campaign.
They lost their credibility to such an extent that it will be amazing if they can regain it. How can anyone trust them to deliver Brexit after their conduct?
Can the Conservatives be trusted on Brexit?
So we come to the crucial point: how can we even trust the Conservative “Brexiters,” let alone Boris Johnson and the rest of the Conservative MP’s to deliver a Brexit which is nothing but one in name only?
The evidence is that we cannot by their actions to date. Whether it has been a deliberate ploy or not, getting the Tory Brexiter MPs to “front” this “deal” has successfully discredited them and the Brexit cause. They have been neutralised.
Then there is the key question –
“Why are not Boris Johnson and indeed the Tory Brexiters taking the UK out of the EU on 31st October?”
That is not only the default position, there is now additional legal argument that the UK left the EU on 29th March and those arguments apply to 31st October too. This has been recently published on the Unity News Network and elsewhere. In essence, it is the contention of QC Stanley Brodie that the EU broke their own laws for the UK exiting the EU, and thus legally the UK is no longer a member.
The impression given is the remain dominated Conservatives simply do not want to deliver on the clean break Brexit public voted for. The public never voted to have a deal and it is a distortion to allege otherwise.
The awful fact is that the Conservatives have not brought about Brexit in over three and a half years and that cannot all be blamed on remainers in Parliament.
Have the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary tactics helped or hindered the Brexit cause?
The tactics of the PM in Parliament over the past few weeks have been hardly impressive. We know the tactics of the remainers have put Parliament into disrepute, but the government’s conduct has been very questionable too.
[To be continued tomorrow in Part 2]
I would hold back until reading Part 2, but cannot resist a few words.
Totally agree with comments about the LibLabCon Party. They are all as bad as each other and terribly disappointed to hear that Bone, Baker, Cash, Paterson, Raab, Redwood and more voted for the ‘Deal’.
We feel we are being conned and one trick of a con artist is to keep you guessing and of course use a deadline. The former similarity is that we could still be leaving on the 31st October. The latter that we did not have to wait until the 31st October.
Whether we leave or not under the Conservatives the die is cast. They are traitors and liars of the worse kind. I agree that it is treason and that there is anger. I hope to God none of them get away with it and they are reminded of their actions for rest of their vile political careers.
There were no Conservatives who voted against this rotten deal and those other MPs who voted against it only did so because they want to stay in the EU.
Could that last sentence be wrong? If we carefully sieve through the Noes could we find a few genuine souls? Is there any integrity left in the HoP?
First of all, the EU was given the driving seat in negotiations. They were then allowed to mix leaving and a deal in one item. Rather than sticking to the EU terms of leaving the club, that exit date was extended. This was the mess that was Mrs May’s doing. – Some say this was because she was a remain PM. – Personally I consider it was because she was a clueless fool ! She was certainly out of her depth by the fact that she gave all the aces to the EU, and became the Court Jester of Brussels !
Consider now the correct way. Leave in total first, due to our peoples Democratic decision, and sign Article 50. Then negotiate terms of Trade, and our association with the EU. Article 50 is designed to hold us back for two years, but we have already made arrangements with W.T.O. and opened Trade with non EU Nations. – The EU don’t like it, but that goes against the rights of a sovereign Nation that is no longer a member of the EU. Further negotiations take place in London at the EU’s request, as some of their members see a loss of Trade to them ! A boarder in Ireland is no problem to us, but let the EU become unpopular in the enforcement of such !
Pension entitlement to British MEPs and others employed in British / EU business would be taken up by us as our responsibility, and that is the extent of our financial obligations ! The Irish Republic would need to consider their position, and although of interest to us, would be none of our business and they would need to make decisions upon their own association with the EU ! The EU would need to accept our total rights of self determination, even if they disagreed with it ! ….. Job done, but with financial assistance given domestically, to businesses in need for the short term transition period, which may well be inevitable !
Article 50 ‘Withdrawal’ never had a chance to be LEAVING THE EU. As Gerrard Batten said years ago it is simply a trap set by the EU to keep errant nations in. I hope Nigel Farage understands that.
What I’m not sure about is – if the Boris/May BRINO becomes law would it still be possible to get out by Repealing the 1972 Act that took us in? I suspect it would be. See ‘Road to Freedom’
Brexit Party does seem to be our only hope.
Oh and as for the EU breaking their own law re first extension That is what the EU does. Why not? Their ‘Courts’ are part of the same system and will always find in their favour.
If Boris really does NOT have any more shots in his locker then I have to agree he is as bad a traitor as all the Tories before him. He COULD have stopped the Benn Bill. He probably could have been so obnoxious to the EU that they stopped negotiating. He could have NOT agreed any more money – ever – even if they told us the truth that we could not leave. The Rotten Parliament would have prevented Repeal of 1972 Act but one way or the other I think he COULD have ‘crashed out’.
It has been said before, although UKIP are in disarray at the moment they do have the Branch infrastructure and TBP has the mouthpiece. If they were to bang a few heads together they would clean up at the election, or at least get a good majority. What are they waiting for?
Is it a distraction? All together now – YES!
Look at the website ‘standup4brexit.com’ and see how these so-called ‘Spartans’ are forsworn. They PLEDGED ”to commit to leaving the EU on 31st October and abandoning Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement as dead.” That they don’t even bother to explain to us why they should have dishonoured themselves like this just goes to show what arrogant and self-serving people they are.
There is not one Tory MP that you can now have any respect for including, sadly, John Redwood who made the excuse, after voting for Johnson’s Surrender Treaty, that it was only a vote for the second reading and, if he hadn’t voted for it, it would have looked like he was trying to stop Brexit!
As for the ERG calling themselves the Spartans, as Melanie Phillips said on Politics Live the other day, they should now be renamed the Spineless.
Just been watching Melanie being interviewed by Peter Whittle. Worth a half hour watch.
Bernard, thank you so much. She articulates what I call ‘The Plan’ (Kenya, Suez, Rhodesia, S. Africa, Ted Heath etc.) so succinctly. Although this is only a small part of what she said, I found the rest of it fascinating as well. A breath of sane fresh air amidst the madness and fog of the political war we’re in.
No Deal is the proper way forward. There is no problem other than those made by the civil service and politics.
We cannot accept anything else.
Even the idea of another treaty is abhorrent.
Boris’s agreement gives away everything that makes a country, in exchange for political gain, and has all the reality of a protection racket.
The actions of parliament are blatant. Why? if not CORRUPTED.
I think we will find that this is far worse than Expenses. And will have been organised.
You can only beat an organisation ( H of C ) with another. UKIP has descended into self destruction, so in spite of the rafts of political carpet-baggers that have joined, it is now up to us to give BRXIT party all the cards. And Nigel to start pruning.
“The actions of parliament are blatant. Why? if not CORRUPTED.”
We can be pretty damn sure there’s an EU/Open Society slush fund around to induce co-operation, and failing that the threat of blackmail in not a few cases. The combination of carrot-and-stick must be almost irresistible.
I have written this many times, but Boris could have stopped the Benn Act by advising the Queen not to give Queen’s Consent which was required to allow the Bill to proceed to its third reading, because it affects the Royal Prerogative (the prerogative of the Crown to negotiate international treaties). OK, so Bercow cheated and ruled Queen’s Consent was not required. But Boris could have then advised the Queen to withhold Royal Assent. If this was challenged on the grounds that Royal Assent is never withheld, he could have said that this was necessary to cure the illegal conduct by Bercow to not ask for Queen’s Consent, which is routinely withheld and which would have been withheld. So why did Boris allow the Benn Act to become law? Because he doesn’t want to deliver Brexit. His ‘secret plan’ was to deliver BRINO: a reheated thrice-slain rotten pig of Theresa May’s Surrender Treaty with just enough lipstick applied for Boris to be able to claim “victory”. And the Benn Act is the backstop which allows him to evade a clean break Brexit while portraying himself as the Brexit champion and blaming someone else for the failure to deliver (in this case, Parliament). The truth is, the Conservative Party cannot be trusted, not one of them, as we can now see, not even the Spartans, with Brexit, and our only hope now is that there is no Brexit until after the General Election, in which the Brexit Party wins and finally delivers a real, proper, Brexit. It’s a very long shot, but anyone voting Conservative is voting for Boris to deliver May’s BRINO. It’s less bad to vote Labour or even LibDems and get Remain.
Agree except I could never vote for any of lib lab tory ! The vassalage treaty is as bad as no brexit and worse : just for starters we will be ruled by an anonymous junta or ” joint” committee consisting of British Britain -haters like TMay along with hostile Eurocrats, bent on punishing us. Also if we “left” then “re joined” later, would we rejoin on even more punitive terms like joining the Euro (not sure if we would have joined the euro anyway). We will be trapped for ever, as Govt will quietly sign May’s Security Treaty destroying all our criminal justice rights under English common law and our army will be gone. The problem is, the MSM has possibly hoodwinked the public with the lie that this treaty is our only chance and should not be kicked away?
Voting BXP and getting them in, in order to get us out, is fine…..but we have to remember too that many BXP people are former Tories. Leopards, spots and all that. We may have to get rid of them also in the near future.
As I have said many times, ever since the debacle of the Matrix-Churchill trial,NEVER TRUST A TORY. That trial was a disgrace and the ministers of the Major government who signed the Public Interest Immunity Certificates proved that Tory selt-interest is the only rule they support.
What do you mean, “never trust a Tory?” They can be totally trusted : to serve their globalist masters and their own interests, trampling underfoot the hard working tax paying voters who pay their undeserved parliamentary salary. They are a globalist party of consummate con artists, and it’s tragic that ordinary voters have all these years failed to see them for what they were.
I’d suggest most BP Tories are there precisely because they haven’t changed their beliefs. Their ex Party did, and lied for decades to conceal their treachery which is now obvious to anyone with eyes to see. The only functioning genuine article left is Farage and he’ll get this today’s vote every time.
MPs on all sides are scared of losing their seats but I fear the most likely outcome of any election is another hung parliament. Once you factor in low turnout, tribal voting, leave support split and remain alliances nobody knows where we will be..least of all a Prime Minister that cannot get us out the EU.
We must leave next week or its groundhog day till the FTPA kicks in around 2022. The logic is unescapable.
Keeping labour out is vital. But a tory majority would not necessarily be a pro-brexit party. The existing parliamentary party is overwhelmingly Remain and happy to deliver BRINO. There are not loads of Brexit supporting Prospective parliamentary candidates waiting to snatch seats from liberals or labour. The tories are not selecting Brexit supporting candidates. If Mrs May had won a huge majority her Surrender Treaty would be signed now and set in stone. That was her mission. It cannot be said loud enough and often enough. If you want to leave the EU you must vote for a party that wants to leave the EU. That rules out the tories, labour and the liberals.
Northern common sense here, Matt. None of the LibLabCon is fit to govern. The cartel government parties are at war with themselves and the anti-democratic enlightened despots in the LD party are anathema. None will deliver clean Brexit or, more importantly, reform our collapsed and shattered democratic system. It has almost gone beyond Brexit now. If Boris wins a majority, God forbid, we shall return to Maybot’s treaty. That is NOT getting Brexit done.
The CONservatives only view this as cementing power and keeping themselves together. They have no interest in a proper Brexit. Giving them a majority will leave the UK at their treacherous mercy.
They should not and cannot be trusted. Johnson has already been caught out twice.
First he lied to the DUP at their conference claiming no UK PM would separate NI from the UK. His deal achieves exactly what he said he would not do.
Second, he said in Parliament, NI businesses could trade freely with the mainland. This was a lie, as NI businesses have to fill in a customs declaration to export to GB. Clearly he hasn’t even read his own Treaty nor brief. Just like Hurd, Major et al before him. Can you trust a man who lies so brazenly to ones face? No wonder the DUP are incensed.
Once this ‘Deal’ aka Treaty gets proper scrutiny and remainder amendments get tabled theTories poll lead will be dramatically cut. I think they are actually misjudging public anger. As for Labour, they have long abandoned their leave voters. When Johnson finally ends up on a leaders debate his weaknesses will be exposed for all to see. No wonder they want no deal of the table and to force this Treaty through quickly with no scrutiny. Hinson’s honeymoon will soon be at an end.
JL
Fully agree. Johnson cannot be trusted – he has had his chance. Only one route forward for a clean Brexit – get fully behind the TBP and wreak havoc at a general election. The political establishment will never deliver a clean Brexit we must change the face of Parliament for Brexit to be a success.
The only thing we can see is that Boris and company have done nothing a lot quicker than May and her shambles, As he and his cabinet have copied most of what May did , perhaps he would do well to go the whole hog and have ‘ a moment of clarity’ .