Court Ruling Goes Against Johnson

[hobinfoot]

13 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Brexit thread ———————————>

This judgment is nothing to do with brexit. The judgment was to do with the government stopping parliament from sitting and being able to scrutinise the executive which is not legal. We have a parliamentary democracy and quite rightly parliament is the senior party.

[Longcol]

2 minutes ago, hobinfoot said:

This judgment is nothing to do with brexit. The judgment was to do with the government stopping parliament from sitting and being able to scrutinise the executive which is not legal. We have a parliamentary democracy and quite rightly parliament is the senior party.

Concur - otherwise we'd have an elected dictatorship.

[Waldo]

2 minutes ago, L00b said:

I hope that you all kept some popcorn, because this is going to run and run over the next few days.

Fully stocked up thanks!

[Guest makapaka]

He should resign - but he probably won’t.

[ANGELFIRE1]

So the establishment who are remain, passes a judgment that surprises no one. Democracy is now officially dead in the UK. RIP democracy, 17.4 million people have been betrayed by traitors and quislings. They cannot know or understand what they have done.

 

Angel1.

[L00b]

27 minutes ago, Waldo said:

Not okay for government to ignore parliament.

 

Perfectly okay for parliament to ignore the will of the people.

Sovereignty vests in Parliament, not in British subjects: there's no such thing as "will of the people" in British constitutional law. Only in populist haranguing.

[Longcol]

2 minutes ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

So the establishment who are remain, passes a judgment that surprises no one. Democracy is now officially dead in the UK. RIP democracy, 17.4 million people have been betrayed by traitors and quislings. They cannot know or understand what they have done.

 

Angel1.

No - democracy is dead if the government can shut down parliament at will to achieve their ends.

 

Then we have an elected  dictatorship.

Edited September 24, 2019 by Longcol

[ANGELFIRE1]

1 minute ago, L00b said:

Sovereignty vests in Parliament, not in British subjects: there's no such thing as "will of the people" in British constitutional law. Only in populist haranguing.

If there is no will of the people, why have General Elections then, they are meaningless.

 

Angel1.

[L00b]

4 minutes ago, ANGELFIRE1 said:

So the establishment who are remain, passes a judgment that surprises no one. Democracy is now officially dead in the UK. RIP democracy, 17.4 million people have been betrayed by traitors and quislings. They cannot know or understand what they have done.

 

Angel1.

Your Supreme Court just restated the very fundamentals of British democracy, and this is your take on it?

[ANGELFIRE1]

Just now, L00b said:

Your Supreme Court just restated the very fundamentals of British democracy, and this is your take on it?

The establishment passed the decision.

 

Angel1.