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Brexit Over?
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maggiewinchester | Report | 4 Nov 2016 12:27 |
IPG: "As the member for Maidenhead, TM has one of the most safest Conservative seats in the country. She had a tad under 66% of the vote in 2015". |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 4 Nov 2016 13:34 |
With that sort of majority do you really think she will get voted out if there were to be an election? Not unless the local party de-select her. |
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Joy | Report | 4 Nov 2016 14:19 |
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/728672/High-Court-Article-50-ruling-Law-expert-warns-against-Brexit-betrayal PARLIAMENT should think carefully about betraying the British people by blocking Brexit, as no-one was told MPs had the right to veto the EU Referendum result, a law expert has warned. Steve Peers, a professor of EU law, urged caution after the High Court’s bombshell decision on Thursday as hudges ruled Prime Minister Theresa May does not have the power to start the process of taking Britain out of the bloc without a Parliamentary vote. The EU law expert said: "No-one stood up and said Parliament had the right to overturn this [vote]. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 4 Nov 2016 15:08 |
The judgement of the HIghCourt should not have been a "bombshell" as the Bill of Rights 1689 has been available to read for over 300 years. The Bill of Rights became a keystone of our constitution orecisely becase the executive (Charles I, Cromwell etc ) attempted to rule without parliament. If T May wants to give it a go the Whitehall Banqueting House is still there. |
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Dermot | Report | 4 Nov 2016 15:41 |
Gina Miller - a new political name to me. |
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Caroline | Report | 4 Nov 2016 17:08 |
Except...Parliament did to some degree debate it already when they decided to hold the referendum ....and then spend public money sending leaflets out to everyone telling them about the referendum where call me Dave said he'd follow the public wishes....how much public money were the brexit camp given to promote their views...where in that debate and that leaflet did it say no matter what the result we'll debate it again in Parliament ?? |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 4 Nov 2016 18:53 |
yes Caroline but you miss the point the legal issue was not the policy of brexit one way or the other and the court made that quite clear. The issue was and is can the government of the day override statute law using the royal prerogative? The answer is no. Only parliament can change statute law. The UKGov submission of inferred authority via the referendum was flayed in court. |
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Denburybob | Report | 4 Nov 2016 19:17 |
Democracy is the least worst form of government. (Churchill?) |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 4 Nov 2016 19:38 |
There's one thing that concerns me. Would MPs want to know her detailed negotiating position? Anyone who has been involved in negotiating a contract starts off high (or low) and ends up in the middle. |
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Dermot | Report | 5 Nov 2016 12:30 |
'Not alone would many UK residents like to leave the EU, they would love to detach the country from the entire world. Island mentality.' |
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Caroline | Report | 5 Nov 2016 15:48 |
Rollo...I get the legal point....BUT...if nothing else this just proves Government don't really want to know or care what the public thinks or wants....they asked everyone to vote...they said what they'd do with the results....when they didn't get the result they thought they'd get they had no choice but to follow the law.......and no I'm not naive enough to think Governments ever actually care what the general public wants...this was an exercise in being seen to be doing what needed to be done, spending public money to get the outcome you wanted but being so out of touch with the general mood you didn't "win". |
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Kense | Report | 6 Nov 2016 07:38 |
How does it prove that Caroline? When Cameron didn't get the result he wanted he resigned. |
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Dermot | Report | 6 Nov 2016 08:17 |
David Cameron allowed a series of setbacks to overtake his easy-going leadership. His most damaging feature was that he headed a party of toffs who were on the side of their few friends & financial backers while being coldly indifferent to the rest. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 6 Nov 2016 12:49 |
You also have to remember that the nations wealthiest already pay huge amounts of tax. the top 1% of earners pay 30% of taxes collected.The best-paid 3,000 contribute, on average, £2.6 million in tax per year. To listen to the hype, you’d be forgiven for thinking the richest pay not a penny in tax. The truth is that the UK income tax system is reliant upon a very small number of highly mobile rich people. |
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Caroline | Report | 6 Nov 2016 13:39 |
Call me Dave resigned because it was his version of throwing his toys out of the pram when the masses didn't do as they'd been told to do ! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Nov 2016 13:43 |
...and here's an interesting slant on how this all began.... |
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Caroline | Report | 6 Nov 2016 16:48 |
sitting back waiting for the remoaners to pick that article to pieces...... |
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magpie | Report | 6 Nov 2016 20:54 |
Wow, where do we go from here?!! I've always rather wondered why we had a referendum after joining the Common Market and not before! Now it would seem I might have just found out! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Nov 2016 21:20 |
It does make you wonder how many times we've been lied to, for the sake of lining a few pockets, doesn't it? |
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Caroline | Report | 7 Nov 2016 11:25 |
ummm.....pretty much every day no doubt... |