Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The Last Hurrah Before Brexit; Commons Speaker John Bercow accused of attempt to 'sabotage' Theresa May's Brexit plan, ‘Remainers’ keen to deny the people of the UK the fruits of their democratic vote, enough is enough, it is time to leave the EU
















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:

  1. 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.

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  2. Keep on writing, great job!

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