Dear All
The year is 2010, there is a change of
government after the Westminster general election and in comes David Cameron.
As a parting gift by the Labour Party, they vote in Conservative MP John Bercow
after the end of Michael Martin’s departure as Speaker. The appointment and
backing by Labour was done out of one thing, to annoy the Conservatives.
And it did!
There then followed over the years what
could be described as a ‘running feud’ between certain Conservatives and
Bercow. To show you how far back I commented on this situation, you can read my
post of 2011.
Basically I said that the then Prime Minister
David Cameron needed to stamp this out because it was toxic and unhealthy for
parliament.
He didn’t.
David Cameron and a few friends ended up
doing an attempted coup.
The so called ‘payback plot’.
8 years later, we get Commons Speaker John Bercow
using an old rule to 'sabotage' Theresa May's Brexit plan. Bercow who
is a 'remainer' is playing by the rules, but not acting in the interests of the
country and respecting the vote by the people.
What goes around comes around.
Using the rules, Bercow has made a ruling
that Theresa May’s Brexit plan can only come back to the House of Commons if she
made substantial changes. The deal doesn’t have a lot if any room for
improvement, so with 10 days to go, this intervention is not what the
government needed at this time.
Robert Buckland, the Solicitor General,
claimed John Bercow has plunged Parliament into a “major constitutional
crisis” and suggested the only way out might be to suspend Parliament. Once
parliament resumes, the government could then seek a fresh vote in a completely
new session.
In case you missed the update info on the
Bercow feud, here is something to get the wheels turning.
If you thought that Brexit would pass without
incident, you know better know, in a statement EU Chief Donald Tusk said he is
open to Brexit being delayed his price, a second EU referendum.
The UK should not hold a second Brexit referendum,
this would be bad for our democracy, neither should we extend the deadline, we
must and should leave on 29 March. Jacob Rees Mogg said a bad deal is better
than no deal. No deal is better than a bad deal which was the Prime Minister’s
words, and she should recognise that statement’s worth.
Democracy in the UK will suffer greatly if
the people’s vote isn’t honoured in full.
In an attempt to be meaningful, the SNP in
the shape of Ian Blackford will today meet Jeremy Corbyn to urge him
to swing fully behind a People’s Vote, he said:
“We are in a crisis…We need to put this
back to the people”.
If anything has to go back to the people,
it must be a general election, not a referendum,
Blackford added:
“Theresa May’s deal is dead and the Speaker
has announced it. He is quite right because…Erskine May [the parliamentary
rulebook] is quite specific that you can’t bring the same motion forward in the
same session.”
Finally, as we have seen many times before,
if you bide your time and patiently wait, the opportunity can arise when you
can get payback, I am sure John Bercow will enjoy his moment throwing the cat
among the pigeons. That being said, his chances of a peerage, bad before just
got worse, personally, I am still hopeful of hard brexit, whether it is smooth
or a car crash, we can always rebuild once out.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
3 comments:
Personally George, I think that this was probably for the best. Theresa May has tried to bully and blackmail her so-called "deal" into place. It has failed, and Bercow, in my opinion, was saying "No, Theresa. What part of "no" do you not understand?" On top of this, our idiot government and opposition have used Brexit as a pissing contest to try and get some personal gain, rather than obeying the will of the one group they're meant to serve but too often haven't, the British voting public.
In addition, the EU are sick of the whole matter as much as us, and they'd rather draw a line under the whole thing. They're not going to want a long extension because they can't have British MEPs in the EU after the elections, and it's eating into their time as well as ours.
Parliament can't revoke Article 50 because the electorate will slaughter them. And like you said, remain wouldn't have time for a second vote. Perhaps the truth is that they're going to pull something out of the hat last minute like you suggested. I could be wrong, but it is a distinct possibility.
Keep on writing, great job!
buy will we?
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