Boris Johnson‘s lifelong dream of becoming U.K. prime minister has become something of a nightmare thus far.
He’s lost his “Conservative” majority in parliament, the House of Commons, and the pro-European Union, Remain-dominated chamber seemingly has passed legislation blocking a no-deal Brexit. Plus, the opposition Labor Party under Marxist anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn has blocked Johnson’s call for a snap national election to break the impasse, reversing their new election advocacy. Making matters worse, the Tony Blair-appointed, globalist Supreme Court ruled that Johnson’s temporary prorogation (suspension) of parliament was illegal.
Almost 500 parliamentarians across party lines, however, had voted in 2017 to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which started the two-year divorce clock running. And in the June 2017 snap election, both the Conservatives and Labor promised to deliver a “proper” Brexit.
So far, Boris Johnson has stubbornly ruled out a non-aggression pact with the Nigel Farge-led Brexit Party, even though orchestrating an arrangement that would avoid dividing the pro-Leave vote would deliver a huge majority if and when the next election occurs.
The Brexit Party supports a clean-break Brexit with no strings attached, equivalent to a no-deal Brexit. Johnson’s duplicitous predecessor Theresa May declared more than 100 times that the U.K. would leave on March 29 and that no deal is better than a bad deal, but she didn’t mean a world of it.
Under Farage’s plan, Brexit Party candidates would stand down in constituencies where the Conservative incumbent is pro-Brexit. In exchange, the Conservatives (Tories) would give way to the Brexit Party in pro-Brexit, Labor strongholds, where Conservatives have no chance of winning anyway.
Johnson still insists Britain will exit the EU on October 31, despite the opposition of the virtually the political/media establishment, the government bureaucracy, and the crony capitalist/corporate socialism sector. Politicians on both sides of the aisle seem hell-bent on advocating for the EU and overriding their own constituents.
There are continuing concerns among the Euroskeptics that Johnson will try to get parliament to approve Theresa May’s failed surrender document with minor tweaks. So it remains to be seen what Johnson means by “getting Brexit done.”
A reboot of May’s EU capitulation, which the Commons rejected three times, would constitute Brexit in Name Only 2.0 and would be a further betrayal of the grassroots electorate which voted 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the EU.
It’s interesting a candidate can win election to parliament by just one vote, a binding law can pass the chamber by as a little as one vote, but the Remainers have arrogantly disregarded 17.4 million pro-Brexit voters in both the Conservative and Labor Parties.
While spending three years trying to sabotage Brexit after the British public voted for a divorce from the EU on Jun 32, 2016, the flip-flopping Remaniacs in Labor and the so-called Liberal Democrats have the hubris to talk about upholding democracy.
The Remainiacs, a.k.a. the Remoaners, are continuing to demand a second referendum. Not only is Labor now officially an open-borders party, but they want to allow any British resident, citizen or not, to vote in a theoretical second Brexit vote, thereby stuffing the ballot box with EU sympathizers.
Johnson still insists Britain will exit the EU on October 31, despite the court ruling and the the fierce opposition of the the London-centric, globalist political/media establishment, the anti-Brexit government bureaucracy, and the crony capitalist/corporate socialism sector.
Are there loopholes available that he can use to circumvent the Remoaners? Former PM John Major, yet another EU apologist, claims that Johnson could use an arcane group called the Privy Council to circumvent parliament and implement Brexit (in whatever form that might take) on Halloween, the London Telegraph explained.
“Sir John raised the hypothetical scenario as a possible explanation for Mr Johnson’s apparently contradictory statement that he would not break the law but would still take the UK out of the European Union by Oct 31, making good on his ‘do or die’ promise. Under the Benn Act – repeatedly dubbed the ‘Surrender Bill’ by Mr Johnson in the Commons on Wednesday – the Prime Minister must ask the EU for an extension to Article 50 if no [U.K.-EU] deal has been secured by Oct 19.”
Recall that Johnson was somewhat wishy-washy about Brexit until more or less the last minute. His endorsement, however, carried a lot of weight with the voters.
Even though Johnson is himself a member of the establishment and operated as a liberal mayor of London for eight years before his election to the Commons, his effort to put Britain first has sadly prompted the same kind of hysterical vendetta by the London-centric, globalist elite that the Deep State and the Democrat-media complex is waging against U.S. President Donald Trump.
The fear-mongering Remainiacs have also accused Johnson and others of using offensive language, forgetting their own track record of violent rhetoric. In effect, the most divisive politicians are accusing Brexiteers of engendering divisiveness. Just like the unhinged, anti-free speech, power-hungry Democrats in the U.S.
The left-wingers and socialists in Europe follows the same hypocritical and divisive playbook as the Democrats in the U.S. That is, accuse others of doing or saying the things they actually are doing.
In most parliamentary democracies, when a government (i.e., the prime minister and his cabinet which oversee the executive branch) no longer has the support of a majority of lawmakers, of if the chamber enacts a vote of no-confidence in the PM, or if the PM decides to dissolve parliament, an election is the next step.
The next U.K. election is scheduled for May 2022, however, as a result of the ruling coalition (Conservatives plus Liberal Democrats) government under Conservative in Name Only PM David Cameron after the 2010 election.
Under current law, then, the U.K. is stuck with what’s being called a zombie parliament, as the Guido Fawkes blog explains:
“The [Fixed Term Parliament Act] – forced through by the Lib Dems in 2011 – prevents the PM calling an election without 2/3 majority support, and means the Government losing a vote of no confidence doesn’t automatically lead to an election. In reality, it’s meant weak Governments can’t fall and strong Governments can still call an election whenever they want.”
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[Featured image credit: U.K. government, Wikimedia Commons, Open Government Licence v3.0]