Off With Their Heads

I’ve heard some hysterical overreactions in my time, but the remain in the EU mob really are stretching it.

Labour’s shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner also challenged the lawyers’ advice. “The logic of saying the prime minister can trigger article 50 without first setting out to parliament the terms and basis upon which her government seeks to negotiate – indeed, without even indicating the red lines she will seek to protect – would be to diminish parliament and assume the arrogant powers of a Tudor monarch,” he said.

Bullshit. The Lisbon treaty is encapsulated in UK law. Therefore, so is article 50.  Invoking it does not need the approval of parliament, because, parliament approved it when they enacted the treaty into our law – and, of course, they all took the time to read and inwardly digest what they were enacting, didn’t they?

The referendum was approved by parliament. Therefore, the executive can invoke article 50 without going back to parliament. And to suggest that doing so is akin to a Tudor monarch is fucking idiocy. These people really don’t take losing easily, do they?

I wonder what their reaction would have been if  vote had gone the other way and leavers were complaining about the size of the majority and wanted a re-run? I think we know the answer to that, don’t we?

5 Comments

  1. Err – isn’t Barry Gardiner (who he?- Ed) acting more like a despot in his twitterings that the expressed desire of the majority be ignored?

    Don’t these tw@s have any sense of irony?

    Or any other sense, for that matter.

  2. I know they keep saying that the EU Referendum is “advisory”, but they keep forgetting the phrasing: it’s “advisory” to the *government*. Not Parliament.

    Parliament is concerned with passing new laws and amending / repealing existing ones. It is not part of the system that handles the day-to-day process of implementing and enforcing those laws: that’s what the Civil Service is for. (All those various Ministries of this and that.)

    The Lisbon Treaty was voted upon years ago. The EU Referendum Bill was passed by both Houses last year. As the relevant laws have already been approved by both Houses, there is no need to go back to them.

  3. It’s time our parliament realised that it answers to the people – not the other way around.

    We don’t need a parliamentary vote to invoke article 50 because we already have a clear mandate. It was called a referendum.

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