It's looking likely that a General Election could be called next year.
Would love it if we ended up with a Liberal Democrat government. INCREDIBLY unlikely, but it would be hilarious.
It's looking likely that a General Election could be called next year.
Could the final decision end up with European court of justice?
After their behaviour at Falmer?Would love it if we ended up with a Liberal Democrat government. INCREDIBLY unlikely, but it would be hilarious.
Would love it if we ended up with a Liberal Democrat government. INCREDIBLY unlikely, but it would be hilarious.
But surely the role of an MP is more than simply representing the wishes of his constituency. It's more complicated than that. Many have tried to define representative democracy but Edmund Burke's views are always given huge weight.
He said this: To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience,--these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Utter rubbish. We fought a civil war in order for Parliament to win the right to make the laws of this land. It is not for the likes of Theresa May to bypass Parliament over something as crucial as the trigger for Brexit.
I will abide by the decision reached by Parliament over the invoking of Article 50 and if that means they vote to invoke it then as a citizen of a Parliamentary democracy then so be it.
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After their behaviour at Falmer?
Utter rubbish. We fought a civil war in order for Parliament to win the right to make the laws of this land. It is not for the likes of Theresa May to bypass Parliament over something as crucial as the trigger for Brexit.
I will abide by the decision reached by Parliament over the invoking of Article 50 and if that means they vote to invoke it then as a citizen of a Parliamentary democracy then so be it.
As for sovereignty, how the Leave campaign had the temerity to link Leave with a preservation of sovereignty, then to seek to bypass Parliament in a matter as important as this is duplicitous in the extreme.
Ah this old chestnut again. Yes, we've had rotten luck with them, particularly Normal Baker (otherwise a good MP) and of course David Bellotti. That doesn't mean the party as a whole should be shunned.
Interesting question and one often overlooked. Stopping Freedom of Movement (and its cousin European Citizenship) is presented as a prize by Leave campaigners but for many it's a price. Different members of my wider family are already seeing opportunities (work, business and studying) clouding over as a result of its possible ending.
Utter rubbish, we fought a civil war because the English Parliamentarians didn't want it or England to be ruled by a King with absolute power to be in thrall to continental Catholicism and the Papacy.
if you think Oliver Cromwell's parliamentarian ideals are being served by this episode you are gravely mistaken.
You need to check out how he treated those in his own army when they demanded suffrage in Putney church.
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You need to check out how he treated those in his own army when they demanded suffrage in Putney church.
Lets see how they get on at the Richmond Park by-election first.
Cameron lying when he said a vote to leave would mean leaving, with no going back. No surprise there, I suppose.Parliament voted for a referendum for the British electorate but the constitution says that the result is not legally binding but merely advisory.
Tall order, bearing in mind that Parliament was the source of much of the misleading and misrepresentation. 80% of MPs in favour of Project Fear - sorry, I meant remaining in the EU.Certainly Parliament must take account of the outcome of the referendum but it must also take account of the campaign itself, whether it was misleading or misrepresentative.
Looks tight if the bookies are anything to go by (they usually are but as we all know, NOT always)
http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/richmond-park-by-election/winning-party
In truth it would need an extraordinary swing for the LibDems to take this one:
1) Conservative Zac Goldsmith 34,404 58.2%
2) Liberal Democrat Robin Meltzer 11,389 19.3%
That is nonsense.
They won't 'lose' people in constituencies that voted Remain - the people they are supposed to represent.
They won't 'lose' any of the (many) people who voted Leave without proper consideration of what it actually meant, and will be pleased for a chance to right a wrong.
They won't 'lose' the huge swathe of people who stick rigidly to a party vote WHATEVER happens.
Guess what all the remainers are hoping for now is an EU style referendum process - ie keep holding referendums until the stubborn voters come up with the 'right' result.
A very good reason for leaving, really.
What about Jeremy Corbyn's resurgent Labour party?
I have absolutely no idea how you came to that conclusion. You wanted parliamentary sovereignty, well now you've got it. Parliament will decide.