Aaahh…My job is done…we’re back in control with my hush-puppied foot firmly back on the pleb’s necks once again.
Brexit: Supreme Court says Parliament must give Article 50 go-ahead
I suppose it is some consolation that Scotland’s own wee Idi Amin gets no say in things.
The court also rejected arguments that the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly should get to vote on Article 50 before it is triggered.
Lord Neuberger said: “Relations with the EU are a matter for the UK government.”
Many millions of British people felt for the first time in their lives that their vote counted; that their vote would make a real difference. Those same millions will be wondering if that rare moment in history will be taken away from them by the establishment once again.
The Supreme Court ruling on the triggering of Article 50 was to be expected, but that doesn’t lessen my disappointment. This isn’t about democracy; this is about placing an obstacle in the way of the will of the people. A technicality in law which ignores the will of British citizens.
Even if the judgement was the correct one, the fact is that the whole affair was purely instigated and dealt with by the wealthy, privileged, and out of touch. Another perfect example of exactly why we voted to leave the EU in the first place.
I will not give way! And I hope everyone else who voted for Brexit feel the same.
Certainly do. As I put in my comment under Toady of Toad Hall, we’ve heard no discussion of what would happen if Brexit is somehow stopped. Do all the Remoaners not see that our existing status quo with the EU is now gone, whatever happens? It would be full steam ahead for the political superstate, with plentiful financial contributions exacted from us while they have us bound and gagged in the corner, signed up to Schengen, the Euro and the EU Army. Want to make a democratic/parliamentary issue of it? Tough.
PS. Of course that would be absolutely fine by Clegg, Blair, Cameron, Osborne, Mandelson, Verhorstadt, Tusk, Juncker – and the BBC.
Eleven lords a leaping 11 v SNP 0
So no opportunity for their prolonged meddling.
The grievance team who claim to represent Scotland have been unanimously rebuffed.
Make no mistake this lot are using Brexit solely to deflect from the serious situations in Scotland developing around the NHS,Rail Transport chaos and education shambles ……the latter which used to be the jewel in the crown for Scotland.
My late Grannie would have summed up the ruling as the SNP being told
“Awa n bile yer heid”
Strubble
Agree Gina has done Brexit an inadvertent favour in bringing this case. The judgement by the highest court in the land is clear, this is a matter for Westminster alone. Without this judgement the Scottish Parliament would have sought to interfere and ultimately frustrate Brexit. The government would have been nervous in case they were at some future point taken to court by the Scottish Parliament and lost. Thus Brexit could have been much more difficult to achieve. But the Scottish Parliament has lost any ability to do that thanks to Gina.
Article 50 will go through the H of C with good majority and if the unelected Lords dare to delay or frustrate it the government will ennoble sufficient Tories ( perhaps a few UKIP as well, Lord Farage anyone) to vote Brexit through and then abolish the Lords. So Lords interfere at your peril.
All in all this has been a good day for Brexit.
I had a regular customer who is a very highly qualified Scottish communications engineer doing advanced military work. We were discussing education last year and he told me he was horrified at the degradation in Scotland. He told me of his sadness that his alma mater had actually closed its Physics faculty due to under utilization. Now that is a frightening fact when we are on the verge of International competition.
This is actually as good as we could realistically have expected. No devolution and no negotiating against the government before the vote itself. This isn’t the attack on the referendum (or the courts “saving” Britain as at least one treacherous leech described it) that it’s being described as, if anything it strengthens the result which May has already assured us means full divorce from the EU. The irrelevant anti-British Europhiles claiming otherwise, such as Tim Farron, aren’t actually saying anything new and in the case of the Lib Dems are in no position to block anything anyway, though of course doing so will be professional suicide for any MP of any party. And of course it gives Miller and her traitorous allies, caring more about their own bruised egos and personal finances than the good of the UK, a tokenistic phyrric victory that also means they have no credible right to moan when we eventually leave despite their efforts to prevent it.
Make no mistake, Brexit is on its way and it’s going to work. Today doesn’t change that.
ALM, Miller’s efforts were only ever a holding action whilst the figures operating in the twilight moved their finances accordingly.
You’ve even got to give them credit for getting Joe Public to stump up for it a la Crowdfunding. The rich are just that because they tend not to risk their own money unnecessarily.
Interesting to note that the Supreme court mentioned that had the wording of the referendum indicated the course of action to be taken (in the event of a Brexit vote) then this would have given the Goverment power to enact article 50 without Parliament’s approval.
Ineptitude on the the part of Cameron’s goverment or what? mmmm……..
Amazes me that Cameron didn’t realise this either?
I agree with Edward – well said.
Shame the BBC has the cheek to give Miller air time but then why shouldn’t they I suppose, supports the bias!
I don’t believe this was an error by Cameron. His legal drafters would not have left such a gapping hole. This was a deliberate back stop to hinder the process in the event he lost to propel the country into the State its in right now.
Note how in the “notes to the Referendum Act” they clearly stated that the Referendum was advisory.
The reason no thought was given to indicating what course should be taken in the event of a Brexit vote is simple. The Europhiles, in their arrogance, were convinced that the British public would never dare to do anything other than obey their demands and vote to Remain shackled to the rotting carcase of the EU. That is why they are now running round like headless chickens trying to invent ever more fanciful excuses to pretend that the result of the Referendum was not really the actual result but was somehow something different from the result.
The reason no thought was given to indicating what course should be taken in the event of a Brexit vote is simple. The Europhiles, in their arrogance, were convinced that the British public would never dare to do anything other than obey their demands and vote to Remain shackled to the rotting carcase of the EU. That is why they are now running round like headless chickens trying to invent ever more fanciful excuses to pretend that the result of the Referendum was not really the actual result but was somehow something different from the result.
Cameron is largely to blame for the emergence ,in suppressing democracy, of global elite member Gina Miller , the foreign hairdresser and the grumpy ex- pats who don’t want to live here but want to retain all the privileges of doing so. Cameron’s government was slapdash in many ways and not thinking through the process of leaving the EU prior to the referendum was just one example .
“…grumpy ex- pats who don’t want to live here but want to retain all the privileges of doing so…”
I fall quite happily into that bracket. I don’t want to live there, and haven’t done for years, which is why I left. Having contributed all my working life to National Insurance, Tax requirements, and everything else, and chosen to live somewhere else, I feel that those few benefits to which I am entitled, are sacrosanct wherever I reside. If I were still in the Former UK, I would be more of a drain on their resources now, than I am living elsewhere in Europe. If I have to lose my meagre benefits, then tough – I’ll manage.
I support Brexit, I also support Frexit, and the exit from the God-awful EU of any country which has the guts to leave.
As it is, I benefit from a private pension, and I pay extra for additional health insurance, as well as pay tax here in France. My conscience is clear – the daft Former UK is screwing itself, clearly not having the wit to run a proper referendum, and buggering up its own departure from the “club” for everyone and I, for one, am glad I’m no longer part of it. What a fucking shambles.
Hello EE,
Does that include me as I’m a grumpy ex-pat and I voted ‘out’? Like the Old Goat, I have paid fully into the UK system. I have been out of the country for nearly 10 yrs now, but I still have the vote for a few more years anyway and I shall use it. I have had many conversations with continental Europeans since I left and surprisingly or unsurprisingly the majority do no want us in the EU! I have to say though, that there are not 100,000’s of Eastern Europeans in France…they do not want to come here as they cannot get work. Even if any non French have the relevant qualifications, they make it blatantly obvious that they do not want non-French working here. France is a protectionist country. However, they do know how to spend money that they haven’t got! One of the many reasons that I left Blighty was because I was sick and tired of the place…can’t drive anywhere, PC everywhere, the Government not listening to the majority and finally the blatant biased corporation peddling left wing merde all the time. Looks like it hasn’t stopped since I left!
I have no problem with ex pats enjoying reciprocal rights in their European countries of residence regarding say health. That can hit the UK financially because most other countries have insurance based systems of funding whereas the NHS is useless at reclaiming the costs from other EU countries. But I still wouldn’t oppose it. If ex pats don’t get the rights they currently enjoy, that will be down to other EU governments given that the UK government has already tried to settle this issue but been rebuffed by Mutti Merkel. The ex pats siding with Gina Miller were in my opinion, trying to block Brexit using a process fig leaf, rather than just preserve rights. Just like Miller and her international hedge fund manager pals.
Smells like a ‘stitch up’ if you ask me ?
I suppose it was a ‘nice little earner’ for the barristers and judges of the Supreme Court while the case ran.
Furthermore, I suspect that Labour and Libs will be losing more supporters after this fiasco.