Britain’s Supreme Court rules that Parliament must trigger Brexit
Today Britain’s highest court issued a ruling:
Prime Minister Theresa May must give parliament a vote before she can formally start Britain’s exit from the European Union, the UK Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, giving lawmakers who oppose her Brexit plans a shot at amending them.
A “straightforward” bill will now be rushed to parliament within days, the government said after the country’s highest judicial body decided May could not use executive powers known as “royal prerogative” to invoke Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty and begin two years of divorce talks.
However, the judges did remove one major potential obstacle for the government, saying May did not need the approval of Britain’s devolved assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland before triggering Brexit…
May has said she intends to invoke Article 50 before the end of March but the ruling means the Brexit process is now open to scrutiny from lawmakers, the majority of whom had wanted to stay in the EU…
Those who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU said the vote on triggering Brexit should be a mere formality.
“Any attempt to delay the Brexit process … would be an unforgivable betrayal of the British people,” said Richard Tice, co-chairman of the Leave Means Leave campaign. “The Lords should also follow suit; any delay by them would ensure their abolition.”
It will be interesting to see whether this will happen quickly, or whether substantial roadblocks will be thrown up.
The UK’s Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Parliament, rather than the consent of the governed, rules. If Parliament thumbs its nose at the majority, the consequences will be decidedly unpleasant. Ultimately, the denial of redress of grievance is a formula for revolution.
Then again, arguably this is just one more step in the UK’s societal dissolution. First Rotterdam, the significance of which is that a society that won’t protect its children has no future.
Then Mohammad/Muhammad has become the most popular baby’s name in London. Which begs the question; what would Churchill say about that?
Now we learn that, “A passage from the Koran that denies one of the central tenets of the Christian faith was sung aloud at a cathedral service in Scotland.”
And, lest one think this is an anomoly, “Less than a week after one of the Queen’s Chaplains spoke out against an Islamic Prayer denying the divinity of Jesus Christ being read out in a Scottish Cathedral, the senior churchman has tendered his resignation (forced out) from that office.”
Of course, a ‘moderate’ Muslim choosing to sing a Qur’anic passage that directly denies Christ’s divinity, in a Christian Cathedral(!) was not accidental.
Yet the Monarch, the “Defender of the Faith” Head of the Church of England… doesn’t want to compromise her political “neutrality”.
Not sad, suicidal.
eek. How would you like to be some House of Lords fellow that is also pro EU ? They do not have to face elections do they? The Lords?
Man talk about being between a rock and a hard place. Welp they cal always say told ya so later, if things dont work out. But if they vote against the will of the folks, they may get the guillotine.
It would not be surprising, but it would be outrageous if the UK parliment tangled up the brexit process making it impossible carry out.
Jim Doherty:
The Lords are sort of elected. See this.
Judicial tyranny. Just as in the USA.
nope I still dont get it neo. So they changed it 1999, and just some of them are elected now? But only other Lords can vote?
pffft.
Do they even get to weigh in on this? Are they still considered part of parliament ?
“Any attempt to delay the Brexit process … would be an unforgivable betrayal of the British people,” and since when has that consideration ever stopped a politician??
GB:
Rotterdam is in the Netherlands. Rotherham is in England.
I think the court refrained from requiring the assent of the regional assemblies because that would have inflamed the case for Brexit. The court is gambling here that by only requiring the assent of Parliament, it will strengthen the Remain elements in that body and defeat the referendum. By pushing for the vote in the next few days, May seems to calling the bluff- at least that is my read now, and my read of her hasn’t been very clear- I have always assumed she was put into the seat to stop Brexit, not help it along.
I think the Conservatives have no choice but to approve the Article 50 declaration- they don’t want to fight this fight at this point if a final exit is still two long years away, so it will happen in a week or two. At that point, the court that ruled today may take another stab by reversing their decision on the regional assemblies. This will be a long, long battle to get out of the EU, and I still think it will be scuttled at some point.
“And, lest one think this is an anomoly…”
Alas, the “problem” is not confined to Scottish (or otherwise) churches:
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/01/24/imam-at-trumps-prayer-service-recited-a-condemnation-of-jews-and-christians/
If Parliament thumbs its nose at the majority, the consequences will be decidedly unpleasant. Ultimately, the denial of redress of grievance is a formula for revolution.
Similar to the Alt Right’s propaganda campaign backing Trum here, also consequences of the US Congress and State Department/bureaucrat traitors ignoring and blocking the Tea Party by using IRS strategic weapons.
The so called Christians have been fractured numerous times in the past. The Council of Chalcedon was one of the first to split the Church of Jesus Christ, the primitive 1st structure created by the apostles, into competing warring groups. The “Orthodox” side decided to burn out the heretics and destroy the parts of the scriptures they didn’t like. Which ends up with the Europeans and the Catholics receiving half a Bible, the other half is the apocryphal, no longer considered scripture. Any “church” that sells Christians to Islamic sex slave raiders, any “church” that funds or approves of holy wars against the followers of Jesus Christ, is now Christian? What a load of heresy by the Orthodoxy and Papacy there.
And it isn’t merely Islam’s fault. Islam came after the first splits in the Christian Church of the primitive world. Those who call themselves Christians have been following Lucifer for some time now, and many churches are now the same as the Cult of Nice. It is only natural that Islam, Lucifer’s Own, would decide to take things over and declare their supremacy. Since after all, many of the faithful follow the same god. Many of the Christian priests and Islamic Imams follow the same god… unfortunately that is not the God of Abraham. Those would be the Sons of God or the Firstborn, a little bit of esoteric history and theology behind that one.
In the ancient days of humanity, humans followed numerous gods. Which were the Firstborn of God, the Almighty. They lacked the nature of the Alpha and the Omega, and became fallen. Sort of like those Greek tragedies where the legends say the gods were just like corrupt humans. Personality wise they were, but in terms of existence, their plane of existence was still on the divine. Closer to God than humans are now due to Eden’s loss.
For those that like science, this can be parsed out as angels and spirits not being on the same dimension and existence as us material sorts. They are invisible to the normal human senses. More on that from the Vatican funded Lucifer telescope in the US, on an Indian holy mountain.
Most of the legal opinions I read at the time indicated the government knew full well the appeal to the Court would fail. it was just a way of delaying things while they got the thumbscrews out on any potential Tory rebels. They’ve got the Commons vote pretty much covered now, it’s just ‘process’ hassles like the equivalent of the filibuster in the US to worry about. The Lords could make trouble, problem is they only have the power to delay things now – the bill might bounce around between the houses a bit but I suspect it’ll get through eventually. Worst comes to the worst, May can always call an election and the opposition parties are nowhere in the polls at the moment.
Ymarsakar “Those who call themselves Christians have been following Lucifer for some time now, and many churches are now the same as the Cult of Nice. ”
Funny how we all can’t see the beam in our own eye but have 20/20 vision in seeing the moat in our neighbors.
What happened 1500 yrs ago, I have no clue. But I do know that God was in charge back then and He is in charge today. I don’t see the need to throw the Islamists from the top of the towers but I do see the need to limit those coming into the country that would fundamentally change the country. Stay over there and make your country a islamic paradise.
I am and have always been a strong supporter of Brexit. However this decision seems correct to me. Parliament is sovereign and the bill it passed authorizing the referendum made the vote advisory and not binding. Blame David Cameron for that. My sense is that May is doing the best she can in the circumstances. I don’t think there is any question of parliament not voting to trigger Article 50, the question is whether they try to amend the bill to add conditions to the final approval of any deal in two years time.