Government ‘should shut down parliament’ if MPs delay Brexit, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

[Vouthon]

Government 'should shut down parliament' if MPs delay Brexit, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

Government ‘should shut down parliament’ if MPs delay Brexit, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

A top Brexiteer has claimed the government should shut down parliament if MPs are successful with an attempt to make a “no-deal” departure from the EU impossible.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the chair of the European Research Group of Conservative eurosceptics, suggested ministers should “prorogue” parliament if a cross-party effort to thwart a “no-deal” Brexit prospers.

He recommended the drastic action amid the deepening guerrilla warfare in the House of Commons between Brexiteer MPs and those looking for ways to delay the UK’s exit from the EU.

Next Tuesday, the House of Commons will debate and vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan B, after her withdrawal agreement with the EU was overwhelmingly rejected by MPs last week.

A series of amendments have been tabled to Mrs May’s “next steps” on Brexit, with one aimed at preventing the UK leaving the EU without a divorce deal.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper and former Tory minister Nick Boles are spearheading an attempt to compel the prime minister to delay Brexit until 2020 if she cannot get a withdrawal agreement through the Commons by 26 February.​

 

[Vouthon]

Astonishing volte-face.

The cheerleader for a Hard WTO Brexit, who has been championing the sovereignty of the British Parliament in his campaign to wrest the UK free from continental legalism, in defence of traditional English liberties, is now calling for the Prime Minister to use archaic 16th century prerogative powers accorded to the Monarch - but not exercised since the 1830s, and certainly not in this manner with the aim of actually obstructing parliamentary procedure since our last civil war in the 1640s - to dissolve parliament and prevent our elected representatives from legally blocking a “no deal” Brexit.

This not only makes a mockery of the Brexiteers much vaunted desire to conserve parliamentary liberty, it is fundamentally subversive to the very concept of constitutional, parliamentary democracy that Britain has enjoyed - in the main - since 1689.

Some caveat emptor (“buyer beware”) warning here for any other country thinking about indulging in a spot of “direct”, plebiscitary democracy: it may undermine your legislature and parliamentary system.

It’s like Charles I, “Pride’s Purge” and Cromwell all over again (for those who aren’t familiar with British history, I suggest a quick google search on this one), only this time truly repeated as farce.

 

[Nakosis]

Trump has started a trend.

 

[Estro Felino]

Or you guys can make an anti-Freemasonry law...banning those Rascals from Westminster...
that would be a good start....some good cleansing