Brexit madness has gripped Parliament and the Westminster MSM. Yesterday’s session in the House of Clowns (apologies to real clowns everywhere!) provided ample proof.
Yesterday the MPs provided overwhelming evidence that the House of Commons is more akin to a madhouse than a Parliament. They showed us that their policies are Alice-in-Wonderland policies and that they have the right to ride roughshod over the will of us, the people.
Yesterday’s HoC performance had four acts. First the PMQs, then the Special Report by the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Javid, followed by the 2nd reading of that Surrender Bill, now called the Benn Bill and finally Johnson’s motion calling for a General Election.
I promised to watch – and watch I did, from noon onwards. It was pandemonium in PMQs, it was anodyne and boring for the next two acts, enlivened by something which gave rise to the most outlandish speculations of government skulduggery – more on that below.
More pandemonium ensued when Johnson came back to present his motion to call a GE. After that vote I simply didn’t have it in me to go and watch the Brexit madness in the House of Lords.
“Preventing a No Deal” is code for ‘No Brexit’. This has now, finally, incontrovertibly, been proven: Keep that in mind, keep pointing this out to Remainers everywhere. Remain MPs dropped their masks last evening, making it clear that all the shenanigans, the posturing, the shouting, are smoke and mirrors: they are hell-bent to stop Brexit. They actually said so.
I was stunned by the visceral hatred spewed forth in the HoC yesterday. It was not just the heckling and boo-ing – unheard of before, but allowed by the Speaker. In speech after speech it poured forth, undiluted. I am sorry to say that the female Remain MPs were the worst.
The parliamentary sketch writers, trying to be sarcastic, could not hide their dismay. Richard Littlejohn writes:
“If anyone is trashing democracy, it’s the majority of MPs, hell-bent on overturning the result of the 2016 referendum. […] They bleat about upholding parliamentary sovereignty. But only so they can surrender it to the EU. For the best part of the past five decades they have been content to sit back as the bulk of our laws and trading arrangements have been made by unelected foreign bureaucrats and judges. The self-styled ‘rebels’ say they want a deal. Boris wants a deal. We’d all like a deal. But they have deliberately stripped the Prime Minister of his only chance of securing one.” (link)
Michael Deacon wrote last night:
“The anger in the Commons today was something else. It wasn’t just political. It was personal. Steamingly, screamingly personal. MPs flinging insults at each other is nothing new. But usually it feels like a performance. Pantomime. Playing to the gallery. Not today. This time, the hostility felt all too brutally real. It started with the booing. […] Boos are not normal. Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair: all were routinely heckled and jeered. But not actually booed. Especially not before they’d even sat down.” (paywalled link)
Finally, here is Quentin Letts:
“The visitors [a delegation from Lebanon] were subjected to a marathon of soul-dirtying malignancy, quivering insults, bad stratagems and bogus concerns. There was clapping (improper in the House) at moments of emotive hyperbole. We had histrionics, blubbing, an epidemic of self-pity. It was a bruising day for Boris Johnson but a pretty rotten one for our parliament, too.” (link, paywalled)
It actually was worse: it was remorseless. The Speaker finally showed for all to see that he is a biased Remainer. He allowed the screaming and shouting, he allowed the clapping for a piece of virtue-signalling by a Labour MP, a Sikh who seems to be more muslim than Sikh.
Sometimes Bercow let language slip by which belongs to the playground – not that we didn’t enjoy hearing BoJo call Corbyn a ’chlorinated chicken’! Bercow displayed his bias when he called MP after MP to speak in support of that Benn Bill.
Three wily old foxes on the government benches – Sir Bill Cash, Iain Duncan Smith and David Davis – got the speaker on record, forcing him to say that the Benn Bill did not need Royal Consent. According to mutterings on the twitter rumour mill a legal challenge is possible.
Next – the shambles about that amendment to the Benn Bill, presented by Mr Stephen Kinnock, son of that former Labour wannabe PM Neil Kinnock. It simply brings back the May WA. It was not supposed to be voted for!
What happened was that the Speaker left for a break, the Deputy Speaker tried to speed things up and called amendment after amendment while MPs milled around the chair, chatting. In the old-fashioned style, if there is no challenge (“all who say No” …) the amendments were passed quickly without the need to call for a vote. Thus the Kinnock amendment slipped in.
Ensuing cries of government skulduggery (“the Government didn’t provide any tellers!”) are infantile. I am not surprised that the MSM hacks, tweeting like people possessed, showed again their ignorance. I am also no longer surprised that the MPs showed their ignorance. They ought to know that is the Speaker from the chair who calls the tellers from the MPs present, not the government!
However, in the current demented atmosphere that is Westminster everything now is a plot. A Labour MP actually said that in her opinion ‘three men in No 10’ are conspiring to make us leave with No Deal … oh dear! One even screeched that it was Nigel Farage who runs the government … if only!
When Johnson came back to present his motion, calling for a dissolution of Parliament for a GE, the heckling rose, unchecked. The contrast between his and his supporters on the Tory benches and those opposed was striking. It was reasoned argument against hectoring, screeching and ad hominem attacks.
Gone was the customary veneer of politeness from the benches opposite. Instead we were treated to schoolmarmish condemnation of Johnson and Rees-Mogg, we were treated to opposition MPs bewailing the horrible thing Johnson did by throwing out Tory MPs who had voted against the government yesterday. How dare he! One such MP was even the grandson of Churchill!
Opposition MPs believe that they now also have the right to interfere into the governance of the government party. Mind you – the Tories played right into their hands: a group of them demanded Johnson to reinstate these rebels. Knifing the government and the PM they had just elected into the back – that must be without consequence provided it stops Brexit!
The visceral hatred these MPs have for Brexit came out in their even more visceral hatred for the one man they rightly regard as enemy, Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s chief adviser. Their hatred is amply and ably supported by the MSM, even by those not explicitly for Remain. The Remain masses in Westminster are all baying for his scalp.
And so to the grand finale: the vote against Johnson’s motion. Labour abstained, as did the Libdems. Only the SNP voted – against. This was the result: 298 ayes to 56 noes.
As opposition MPs left the chamber, a Tory MP asked jokingly if there shouldn’t be a motion that “This House has no confidence in the Opposition”, whereupon Johnson quipped: “And this is the first time that the opposition has shown confidence in HM Government”.
Meanwhile, the House of Lords was plodding on, having to deal with the over 100 amendments to the Benn Bill which they must get through before Parliament is prorogued on Monday. According to the DM, a ‘deal’ was made:
“Peers agreed early today that the No Deal bill would clear the Lords by tomorrow – Earlier it seemed Tory Lords would try to filibuster until Parliament is prorogued – Over 100 amendments were tabled and the Lords faced days of 24-hour sittings – But a dramatic breakthrough came as Labour and Tories agreed to pass the Bill -Clears the way for Boris Johnson to try again to win a snap General Election -Jeremy Corbyn said he would support the motion if government passed the bill.”(link)
If this is confirmed then Corbyn is in a cleft stick. He did say he would vote for a GE if the Benn Bill was passed. Johnson seems to calculate that a GE now will give him a mandate, based on the latest polls. We know what happened when Ms May thought she’d win such mandate in 2017 … and this time there’s a new player around, TBP.
We now know that most MPs and the self-proclaimed pundits who still tweet as if they knew everything are pig ignorant. Any predictions coming from those ‘sources’ are therefore just self-serving tosh and piffle. Nobody knows what will happen next!
Yesterday stands out though because it showed once and for all the undisguised hatred of the Westminster Establishment for Brexit and Brexiteers. All their pious words notwithstanding, they want to stop Brexit.
It’s official. It’s war – but we will
KBO!
I was told of this latest bit of news posted on Facebook:-
“Scientist have discovered that voting in the UK is a total waste of f*****g time.”
One just cannot trust scientists anymore.
Ah – but Boris has JRM, Cummings and John Redwood on his side. Anyone who has witnessed the latest battle and has an iota of sense now knows exactly what the remaniacs are like. I liked the Alice in Wonderland cartoon by the way. The war is not yet over.
Will someone please dig up Oliver Cromwell and set him loose in the HofCards.
Just a thought – what if BoJo throws down the gauntlet with a Motion of Confidence in his own government with a challenge to Parliament to back him or sack him?
Pent up rage about the corrosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy and widening inequality finally erupted over the issue of extradition in Hong Kong. ( The UK MSM coverage of the riots there never mentioned the European Arrest Warrant that hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles did they!) Here is an interesting article about the fight for democracy in the UK and in Hong Kong.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-05/brexit-hong-kong-show-democracy-assailed-from-all-sides/11479000?pfmredir=sm
The instruction to Boris to go cap-in-hand to the EU and ask for a further Brexit delay has to go back to the HoC for potential amendment on Monday before going to the Queen for the Royal Assent. Only if it has been passed by the HoC will it automatically be given the Assent in the case of prorogation. However, Boris has the right to prorogue as of Monday, so couldn’t he announce the prorogation first thing Monday morning, BEFORE the Bill has had its final reading in the HoC? He could then announce that prorogation will last until October 31 and we leave with no deal. There would be uproar, of course, but it would be legal, wouldn’t it?
Where there is a will there is a way? The Remainers seem to have no problem with either the will or the way.
Well Mr. Johnson did have the option of waving through the Tilbrook case rather than leaving it contested. The diversity judge declaring it “without merit” was using a legal device to avoid it being tested. It seems it was widely regarded as being ‘highly arguable’. To me that seemed to suggest that Mr. Johnson didn’t actually want us to Leave the European Union.
(Any kind of deal [treaty] signed BEFORE the UK had left, as was voted for by us, means in effect we never left.)
Lets make this really simple so even remainians can understand it.
You are standing on the rear platform on one of those lovely old double-decker busses, the ones with the pole. The bus slows down. Then, while holding the pole you then run along the road, hanging on for dear life. The bus speeds up, You jump back on. Did you get off the bus? Certainly the conductor on the bus I was on didn’t think so.
It seems both remain and leave are still fighting the last election and the referendum. with it seems an understanding that if one side or the other wins the ‘sheepie’ will go back to watching and talking about some reality T.V show or other while the the political elite and the troughers used as they are to doing very well out of their Public Sector, NGO and Third Sector jobs will resume as was the normal and still is actually in many parts of ‘middle England’ .
Somebody needs to ask themselves if Brexit is thwarted , just how are they going to govern and rule whats left of the U.K. One thing is certain the status quo is not an option, particularly when it finally dawns on the people what remain and the Lisbon Treaty actually means and how it will effect them. The public judging by the ‘anti ‘ comments rife on social media seems to have had enough of the shenanigans in parliament, and will demand change at some point, the next demand for change may well involve the monarchy who came very near to losing their support in 1997 something the political elite and the establishment may do well to consider.
“piece of virtue-signalling by a Labour MP, a Sikh who seems to be more muslim than Sikh”
Sikh (re: dress) seeks redress! Good to see Sikhs burying the hatchet with the Muslims after 400 years of genocides – this in their common cause against us colonized folk objecting to female oppression and political uniforms.
Shock, horror, Churchill’s Grandson thrown out – how dare the PM?
Churchill himself is probably spinning in his grave at Soames’ outrage.
Having given ‘blood, sweat and toil’ to save this country from the ‘Today Europe, Tomorrow the World’ Tyrants, his Grandson, yes his Grandson, wants to sell us out.
‘Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Eine Fuhrein’ comes to mind. And that is where we are now going.
The big picture:
Watching the House of Commons yesterday was like entering a room covered in dust and cobwebs, picking up a piece of furniture to find it crumbling to worm-eaten dust on the floor. Putting this in the contest of an interview with Noam Chomsky on RT this morning it is easy to understand why things are tuning out as they are. A democratic government is an aberration that has to be stamped out at all costs before the people get notions of equality with the rich and powerful elite who believe in their divine right to rule. Brexit is therefore a political aberration.
However Brexit is not going away. And a solution has to be provided. And of course the solution has to be based on bringing back the truth in human rights. ……….. the right of human life to be recognised as having a value and a destiny that cannot be conferred by ownership of one person by another ….. the right to the truth ……… the right to the security of a natural family ……. and the right to the fruits of our labour.
Some people still enjoy these rights but they are under constant and sustained attack and the EU is to the forefront in creating chaos in order people would not be able to enjoy these rights.
When democracy fails through the actions of a self serving Parliament there is only one workable solution; a military coup that would provide for a return to an elected government once things had been straightened out and the troublemakers dealt with.
Before that return there need to be rules in place to exclude the current crop of carpetbaggers who, of course, put their own selfish interests before those of the electorate. It should also be necessary for prospective government ministers to demonstrate relevant work experience and professional qualifications appropriate to the job that they are selected to do.
Was the need to prevent a possible coup the reason for Cameron emasculating our military?
We’ve almost all heard tell and few may have actually seen, all of this before.
The hatred, the jeering and above all the arrogance. (And as always with arrogance, the crass stupidity.)
From those jackbooted thugs, with their Nazi salutes, duped into a war by the international elites of their day, as always playing and profiting from, both sides.
But to see a repetition THIS side of the channel, within our own parliament?
They will of course lose and we will, of course, win. This is England.
But how much will it cost us this time? (It is to be hoped only in money and not in blood.)
While the international elites of our day make their killing.
(Just think of all the step-by-step decisions with financial implications that have been and will be made with a privileged few knowing in advance where to place their bets each step of the way.)
And as for those not on the fiddle, those who truly believe and are probably shouting the loudest?
Crass Stupidity.
The way I am seeing it now, and it is quite likely I have missed something, is this:-
BJ needed the ability to be able to leave with a ‘no-deal’ in order to negotiate a fair deal.
1. The Remainers have denied him that no-deal fall back.
This means that the EU can bully the UK in negotiations as we have no power but to accept what we are offered. There are three ways that I see this going.
a) The UK accepts the WA
b) The UK stays in limbo until the EU accepts another deal (this is effectively the same as (a))
c) BJ calls a GE and sweeps the board of Remainers repealing the ‘no-deal’ law. Clearly the first two are not leaving so we remain.
2. The Remainers have denied him the ability to call a GE.
The combination of 1 and 2 above has effectively betrayed this country to the rule of the EU and is a treasonous act.
The only thing I can see that BJ can do now is to take action against the HoC. By that I mean all the Traitors who have denied the result of the Referendum and led this country into surrender. The implications will be very bad as, the asset stripping will continue, our armed forces will be taken away from us, our currency will be replaced and our country will be broken up into the EU regions already planned for the whole of the EU to finally remove national boundaries.
What can BJ do? The first thing that I would suggest would be, as PM, make a national broadcast and explain to everyone what has happened and what are the implications. Without holding back any punches. Ask people to decide where their allegiances lie. Then use his powers over the Army and the Police to 1. Detain and secure any foreign troops in this country. 2. Surround and secure Parliament. It will of course be civil war but everyone will then know which side they feel they should be on the UK or the EU.
I know there are other thing still to be done, such as, a legal challenge, or call WTO rules a legitimate deal. But if all pans out the way it is going BJ will either have to resign or show that he is going to fight for this country.
I had not forgotten the unmissable Sir John Redwood – but had to leave his Diary entry today out for space reasons.
Please go and read it, it’s a cracker, as always:
“A useless Parliament”
So, the Remainiacs have finally taken control of Parliament, leaving us with a Government that can’t govern, yet deny the people of this country a GE, whilst at the same time attempting to reverse the Referendum result. They ramble on about Parliamentary democracy but where is the democracy for the people outside the Westminster bubble?
Block and stop is not good enough, is that the best they can do? We deserve better than that. Yesterday’s performance was a shameful disgrace, aided and abetted by the Speaker.
Doesn’t look good, does it ?
Unless Boris has an arrangement with Nigel that could be a big mistake. Why vote TraiTory ,who might get us out or tie us in deeper with the Vassalage Treaty, when you can vote for a party who will take us out cleanly? The Tories have a much better chance of a good majority if the election is after we have left on WTO terms.