I adore Boris Johnston. He is my new hero, although ‘anti-hero’ might be a more appropriate title for him at the moment. After promising that Britain will leave the EU on October 31st, come hell or high water, he is making sure it is going to happen… by suspending parliament for a month just before the deadline.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September – days after MPs return to work.
It means MPs are unlikely to have time to pass laws that could stop the UK leaving the European Union (EU) without a deal on 31 October.
That exit date is written into law, so if nothing changes the UK will leave automatically – whether or not a deal has been reached.
If you have ever wondered why our own MPs seem to completely disregard democracy, then look no further than Britain at the moment. The result of the binding referendum on Brexit in 2016 was that Britain must leave the EU. That is the will of the people. Sure, as is always the case, the majority was a small one, but that doesn’t matter. And yet, all MPs who want to stay part of the EU are calling Boris’s actions ‘undemocratic’ when they are the ones who want to ignore the will of the people in the first place. The Liberal Democrats are the biggest sinners in this regard.
The official term for shutting down Parliament is “proroguing”.
MPs do not vote to prorogue – it’s a power that rests with the Queen, done on the advice of the prime minister.
So it is within Mr Johnson’s gift to ask the Queen to shut Parliament, dramatically reducing the influence of MPs.
With Parliament not sitting, MPs would not be able, for example, to hold a vote of no confidence in the government.
Which, of course, is exactly what they were intending to do.
Supporters say suspending Parliament would respect the 2016 referendum by guaranteeing the UK leaves the EU on 31 October.
But opponents say it would be undemocratic and undermine MPs – most of whom are against no deal. Tory backbencher Dominic Grieve called the move “an outrageous act”.
BBC
Parliament refused to back Teresa May’s negotiated deal with the EU, which was, she said, the best deal they could get. It was rejected a total of 4 times. Now they are refusing to back a hard Brexit. You could be forgiven for thinking that most of them just want this whole business to go on for decades, with no resolution ever being reached. That might suit Remainers, but would be disastrous for Britain in the long run.
The Conservative party has also completely disgraced itself by hatching all sorts of rogue plans, one of which was to install Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister. Yes, you read that right. Some Tories were actually prepared to back a plan that would see Britain with an anti-Semite, communist prime minister, rather than back the will of the people. It is breathtaking in its arrogance and its stupidity.
These MPs seem to have completely forgotten what happened in the EU elections in Britain recently. Once again, the British people made it clear that they wanted Brexit by voting in their millions for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Sure, this was not a general election, but it sent a clear warning to British MPs that they wanted their will to be honoured… a warning that many MPs still seem to disregard.
Anyway, it seems that the Queen has approved Boris’s plan, so the British parliament will be shut down for a month, starting September 14th.
You know what they say. Come the hour, cometh the man. Here’s my favourite saying of the moment, however, and I hope I can turn it into a hashtag.
#dontmesswithBoris.