It’s D-Day minus 2 today, and this military terminology is appropriate: Tuesday is Decision Day. It’s difficult to think of a more significant date for our Nation, not even the Day of the Referendum, because we are not just observing a Government working to thwart the will of the people but MPs working to change how our democracy and Government works. And all for the sake of staying under the boot of Brussels!
MPs and indeed the PM herself have been taking to the Sunday Papers to address us voters, or rather, to show us peasants what they think and therefore what we have to think. Obviously they assume that we, in good old forelock-tugging manner, will believe the PM and her ministers rather than her Brexit MPs.
Ms May writes in The Express that she is only doing what’s ‘right for our country’, that MPs should stop playing games. Amazingly, while she praises her WA she doesn’t mention the Backstop once, not once! Her final words surely take the proverbial:
“You have delivered your instructions. Now it is our turn to deliver for you. When you turned out to vote in the referendum, you did so because you wanted your voice to be heard. Some of you put your trust in the political process for the first time in decades. We cannot – and must not – let you down. Doing so would be a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy. So my message to Parliament this weekend is simple: it is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country.”
No, Ms May – we didn’t vote for Leave because we wanted to be heard, we voted because we wanted to LEAVE! Your WA is not what we voted for. Your weasel words about ‘breach of trust in our democracy’ mask that this is exactly what you are doing. Your Remain MPs are working to dismantle our Constitution. One cannot help but wonder if they have your secret agreement!
Next into the fray is the current Brexit Minister Stephen Barclay writing in the DT, regurgitating the mantra that it’s May’s deal or nothing, using the phrase we’ve come across yesterday already, reported in our column. He writes that ‘losing the deal’ on Tuesday leads to ‘Brexit paralysis’. It’s the now well-known May ‘directive’ of “My Deal or No Brexit”. It is, with all due respect, pathetic.
In the DT, the former Brexit Minister Dominic Raab is being upbeat about a ‘No Deal Brexit’ while the former Brexit Secretary Stephen Baker (also in the DT and equally upbeat) makes a good point:
“Demoralisation through tales of doom to provoke despondency may be a key pillar of the strategy to reverse the biggest democratic decision in our history, but it will not work. The British are not a small and cowardly people. As the eurozone tips towards recession and more QE seems likely, we are not leaving Utopia, whatever its noble ideals.” (My bold)
It is fascinating how the Remain Establishment has been turning a determinedly blind eye to what is going on in the wonderful EU to which they want us chained forever. Not one of them takes the EU’s attitude into account – see here and here. It’s the usual ‘no-non-nein’ from Brussels, and never mind the vote in our Parliament on Tuesday.
The DT has an excellent Editorial today, telling MPs to vote against Ms May’s deal, to ‘kill it forever’. Their conclusion is important:
“Those saying that Mrs May’s deal is the only one on the table are fraudulently limiting this great country’s options to a Brexit so light it is barely Brexit at all (the Government’s current position) or a reversal of Brexit to keep us within the EU (the effective position of the Remainers, including the Tory rebels). Both options frustrate the will of the people, and MPs have to consider the political backlash. If an MP’s goal is to delay or stop Brexit, let them be open about it and face the consequences at the ballot box. If, however, an MP is genuinely committed to upholding the result of the referendum, then on Tuesday there is only one thing in all good conscience that they can do: vote down Mrs May’s deal.”
Indeed! But what will happen after the vote? Since Bercow’s decision to allow the Grieve amendment, it is plain that the Remainers have plunged us into a Constitutional crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in living memory. The reports about behind-the scenes Remain machinations in Parliament are sickening. See e.g. The Express article:
“The conspirators are thought to be planning to seize control of the House of Commons timetable, allowing non-Government MPs to table motions. The move could see laws passed preventing a hard-Brexit, or indeed any departure from the EU. […] They are reportedly planning to table an amendment giving motion proposed by backbench MPs priority over those put forward by the Government, in a move which would radically change how Parliament functions.” (my bold)
All that just to thwart the Brexit referendum vote! However, it’s also a crisis for the two main parties:
“The Tories are on the brink of a historic split, senior Conservatives have warned, as Brexiteers and Remainers both threatened to torpedo the Government if they did not get their way on Brexit. […] At the same time, The Sunday Telegraph understands that several senior ministers are agitating Mrs May to immediately open talks with Labour MPs about a compromise involving a permanent customs union if her deal is defeated by a large margin on Tuesday. […] Steve Baker, the deputy chairman of the European Research Group of Eurosceptics, warned […] “It’s difficult to see how at least some Conservative MPs would not withdraw confidence in the Government.” (source)
Labour however couldn’t give a toss, not about Brexit nor about respecting the vote of 17.4 million voters. For them, as pointed out yesterday, it’s about power:
“Talking up the prospect of a vote of no confidence if the deal was blocked, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: “It’s now here before us, we could have a socialist prime minister.” (source)
Underlining this is the report in the DM that Labour strategists are planning for a No-Confidence Vote on Wednesday with an ensuing GE, to get Corbyn into 10 Downing Street. The DUP, according to that report, will join forces with Labour unless May is replaced by a Brexit PM. But in regard to Brexit, Labour is as split as the Tory Party (see here).
We can conclude with confidence that Tuesday’s vote is not about Brexit, it is about power: Ms May wants to keep it, Labour wants to grasp it, and the Grieve Cabal wants to change how whichever Government works in future. He and his ilk think Parliament should govern, not the PM and Cabinet. Make no mistake: this won’t be limited to Brexit negotiations. This creates a precedent. No future PM will be safe.
If anything shows the utter disdain in which our elected representatives hold us it is this constitutional crisis manufactured simply to thwart our, the 17.4 millions, vote. This, the destruction of our system of governance, even more than their denying us Brexit, is what we must fight.
Get yer yellow vests now!
The only way to stop all the dishonesty, lies, fraud and general lack of ethical behaviour in parliament is to actually enforce Representation. …At the moment it is purely a tolerated fiction. Momentum has got it right.! MP’s must be representative and recallable, replaceable and dismissable.
Quite right. I think David Cameron’s cack handed Referendum will nevertheless be the trigger that leads to a complete overhaul of the British political system which is no longer fit for purpose. I hope it’s a peaceful revolution by the people, but it might not be..
Hi Viv. I would alsi like to thank you for the effort you are putting into these articles., they are very helpful as is Brrxit Central.
I don’t suppose Grieve, Bercow and the rest of the Remaniac cabal actually want to cteate anarchy but that is precisely what the result of their actions could be. In fact i think we may have seen the start of it yesterday with ‘yellow jsckets’ fighting ‘yellow jackets’
Cheers Lidian
I’m not sure this is the right place to post this Anonymous video but it is relevant even if it does seem indirectly. I’ve long been trying to understand the relationship between the worlds elites and Satanism, in fact I’ve written about it from time to time.
This video explores the work of Josef Mengele, his evil experiments for the Nazis and how these were carried on in the US after the war, the is The New World Order. Some of this video seems far fetched, but unfortunately much of it has a distinct ring of truth and I recognise this after the research that I’ve put in myself, whatever you decide it is worth a watch and giving it some thought. I warn you though, it is not for the faint hearted.
“Anonymous. Update Jan 11, 2019. POTUS in contRol. Monarch and The Deep State” (They are not referring to the Monarchy)
https://youtu.be/yIUVa4vH-CE
For years, people have been warning (or trying to) that democracy in the UK is a sham and that there is a hidden globalist agenda being pushed behind the scenes. Equally for as many years, these same people have been dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” peddling ‘utter nonsense’.
The whole Brexit charade has thankfully done one thing: it has seriously exposed this ‘conspiracy theory’ as actual reality, and as the weeks go by, and the Establishment becomes ever more desperate, the veil of secrecy unravells further.
The Labour, Conservative and even the LibDem parties are revealing themselves to be one single party, all following this same ‘hidden agenda’, though presenting different versions of the same ideology as a front. What we’re seeing now is merely different factions of this same party trying to wrest control, much as you would see different factions within Labour or the Conservatives (and to an extent within UKIP too).
For all the talk of “cross-party collaboration”, read instead “collusion”. Collusion in order to deny the will of the people, while trying to maintain the facade of ‘democracy’ that is crumbling before our very eyes.
The ‘hidden agenda’ does not allow for the possibility of Britain leaving the EU, hence why Theresa May is desperate to get her Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament, because it offers no guarantee that Britain will ever actually leave the EU, and is merely a ‘transition’ to the next stage of our EU membership. And hence why the calls and demands from MPs that Britain cannot leave ‘without a deal’.
Still sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense to anyone?
The political establishment see Brexit as a challenge to their authority and thus all three main parties are circling their wagons.
Power has been migrating slowly upwards and thus becoming more opaque since the last war and they do not wish to see this reversed in what they see as their mission to further the brotherhood of mankind in some form of world government. Democracy is an inconvenient obstacle and they are determined not to let it get in their way – their careers and personal prosperity depend on it.
……Stuart, spot on Sir, the Brexit charade is clear for all to see and I believe a very large number of The People are not going to be shy in letting the establishment know of their feelings.
The monumental constitutional crisis that Westminster is creating will have far reaching consequences for us all.
The Queen, how will the Queen react ? She could decide to step off the fence and offer a solution, to insist her Peoples will is honoured and, the existing Act of Parliament to leave the EU on 29th March actually happens. I wonder what her Remain majority Privy Counselors are advising her to do ? !!
The Queen signed us up for this whole mess in the first place and now doesn’t have the legal authority to step up effectively even if the desire was there, eg The Queen previously wielded the power to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, but the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act put an end to that in 2011
Its exactly the same principle as used by soap makers, have a hundred different brands to create the illusion of choice when each supposedly different product contains the same active ingredient.
It’s sickening to read this! I’ve long thought that the reason that our politicians think they can get away with this is because democracy isn’t what they have planned for us anyway. Most of our politicians wish to remain in the EU, a fundamentally anti-democratic organisation and they’re not prepared to let Brexit ruin their evil plans.
If we loose this fight we loose our democracy, if we haven’t already that is. In fact Peter Mandelson admitted this, post-democracy has been carefully planned for a very long time.
Against the odds, I predict May will win the vote, as the Tories dare not risk an election and so lose their jobs. MPs are being told by the whips that they will be deselected if they vote against. Harder than a 3 line whip.
I fear the stench of treachery and the consequences of it that will soon be with us.
If the vote does go through, there will be hell to pay and severe civil unrest. It’s inevitable. Britain will not go gently into the night.
I’ve been told ( but can’t check to verify / so do not take it as gospel ) that there will be troops ready for deployment on Wednesday and that police leave is cancelled. ( Can anyone else verify??? There are a couple of ex- cops who contribute on this site )
May is clearly expecting big trouble.
I disagree Kev. Tory MPs know she won’t call a GE after the fiasco of last time. They all know that Remain MPs will lose their seats and if enough of them do so, May won’t be PM any more and, as has been said elsewhere, it’s all about power. She likes being in charge so IMHO she won’t risk it.
There is still the possibility of a second referendum but there will be a big conflict over the question. ‘Accept my deal or stay in the EU’ as the LibDems want, or ‘accept my deal or go WTO’ like the rest of us want. It could easily be argued that as we have already voted to Leave, the first of these options has been negated, but there’ll be a lot of people who will still work for it, including Cable. There’s a few hundred thousand people who have signed the petition saying they disagree with him.
Interesting times, but we must never give up the fight.
Even those who don’t like a fight might be forced into one this time. Corbyn is clearly on a roll, confident on Marr this morning and clearly ready for an election. Gawd help us if he gets in control, but I’d rather suffer that than be sold away by the Tories with the current Withdrawal Agreement on Tuesday
I notice the relative silence of JRM and BoJo of late. Raab wrote a very strong article in todays Telegraph but its behind a paywall.
It strikes me that for politicians who believe in destiny ( like Rees Mogg but particularly Johnson ) that THIS is their time.
Its either Finest Hour or Useless Shower….
2 days to go….
Again I have to disagree with you Kev. Yes, Corbyn is ready for an election, which is precisely why May won’t call one. But he’s desperate for a deal with the EU and that means he’ll give away a lot more than May’s deal does. And the bloc knows that. They won’t offer him any concessions at all if he’s in power.
I agree that it’s time J R-M, BoJo and David Davis showed their colours – they’re surely not going to give up now. I note that the DUP has threatened to side with Labour unless a true Brexiteer replaces May. That could be interesting.
Certainly are interesting times ! And not a peep…. Nothing …. from any UKIP spokespeople AFAIK.
And where is UKIP on broadcast media?
Why do we pay a Press Officer £70,000 a year ??
Kevin is correct. Where the hell is Ukip on the radio, on the tele? Worrying vacuum.
Your right Debbie, if any of the parties go for a general election, most of the remainers would be chucked out, in the north, 140 labour seats voted out, included where i live, Scunthorpe, where 70% voted out, but guess what, the labour man who won the seat is against brexit, after he was elected of course. I can see a massive gain for UKIP if there is a general election, also bear in mind, since the referendum we have had nearly 3 years of remainers stating their case, but if there is another referendum, or general election we would hear the case for the brexiteers, for the first time for years, and it would be goodbye to all the remainer MP`S. All these remainer MP`S will be able to go back to their homes in the EU. Dominic grieves for instance, French through and through. These MP`S are a disgrace, they are frightened of the EU, who we are protecting by the way, having our forces on the Russian border, i would bring them back straight away. Why protect these idiot bureaucrats, i would not. Let`s get out out now, and leave the EU to it. Business will carry on, whether we are in or out, if they don`t, they go bust. Bye Debbie, all the best. Dusty, Scunthorpe, N. Lincs.
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I agree. Withdraw ALL forces from Europe. We spend 2%, Germany just over half that….
“MPs are being told by the whips that they will be deselected if they vote against (May’s deal).”
Well, that’s rubbish, only local Tory associations can deselect an MP and, as a recent poll showed that more than twice as many Tory members want no-deal in preference to her deal, it is much more likely that those MPs who vote FOR May’s deal will be deselected.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8116974/tory-members-want-theresa-may-to-scrap-brexit-deal-and-go-for-no-deal-instead/
More ‘Project Fear’. It’s all getting very dirty.
I fear Kevin just might be right in his prediction… and the stench of treachery is overwhelming.
Hence I have called for peaceful action outside Parliament starting at noon this Tuesday. Please come if you can and even if you can’t.
Details at:
https://independencedaily.co.uk/join-tuesdays-london-demo/
A true leader would have taken away the whip when the shower voted against the government.
As to deselection – if not by the party then by the public. There are some very shouty (poor English!) mps with slim majorities,
e.g.
Anna Sourberry – majority 879
Amber Rudd – majority 341
Swivel Eyed Morgan – majority 4,269 (may get away with it)
Amazing how many remainers went to Oxford.
And I am reminded of The Cambridge Five:-
Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
who also sold our country out.
If troops are on standby then they need to consider where their loyalties lie. Military coups are not necessarily a bad thing…maybe that is why Cameron cut their numbers and May is so keen on their joining an EU army.
Please make sure you your family your friends sign the 327,000 petition to government before Mondays debate and Tuesdays vote.
https://petition.parliament.uk
Done ….326,986…
Viv,
Thanks for giving your time to put this together every day. For me, being out of the UK just now, it is far easier to read this than wade through the newspapers.
Thank you, Jack!
There’s much on Brexit in the papers, for obvious reasons, but the more important developments are not blared about in the headlines.
I am very worried about the cross-party Grieve Cabal because what they are working on means the destruction of our parliament and the compact between us voters and those we vote to represent us.
It’s frightening and I hope some constitutional lawyers are working their socks off today to ring the alarm bells.
Indeed Viv it is extremely worrying. Even more worrying is that so many, and not just Remainers, are unaware.