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Improper purposes: Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 16/9/2019

The government's hope is that the Supreme Court case will move at its usual snail's pace, thereby making any point ventured by Johnson's detractors a moot point.

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Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Scott Morrison, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un. This era really will go down in history as the age of oddballs!
Posted by Mr Opinion, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 12:30:28 AM
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Those who voted in the barest winning margin to leave 51%, hardly a landslide majority! Didn't sign up for the rubbish and the BS shovelled by the shipload that followed!

Moreover, the leave agreement not universal and not replicated in the north, i.e., Scotland! Those who do not want a second referendum know full well that this would likely result in an even larger vote, with a vastly larger and more reprehensive cohort included! Which, as a larger more representative would likely arrive at a consensus to stay?

Those who are so certain they know the mind and the will of UK citizens should put their money where their loud shouting mouths are now! And allow a second an far more representative referendum!

After all, this is the home of democracy not some offshoot of Nazi imperialism and autocratic dictators (elected) deciding after having lied to convince the morons who wanted/want t leave, that this would result in some advantage!?

Have yet to release any credible evidence to support their case!

The UK got a divorce from the British commonwealth when it decided in favour of a larger union with Europe! And now a small cohort wants reconciliation with former colonial conquests? And without giving the affected voters a proper and fully informed say!

If those who want t leave are to reiterate, so convinced this is and remains the will of the majority, then they cannot have any objection to having that tested in a democratic outcome in a second referendum!

Jahwol mien herrs?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 17 September 2019 8:40:44 AM
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If you really want to get technical about the law on this, there is one thing the author seems to overlook.
The constitutional framework of the UK is that the head of state is the Queen, and to make laws and appoint her ministers she gets a democratically elected parliament to do such.
However it is the monarch who technically is the top dog, both in theory and practice. Her representatives have occasionally removed governments in Australia (twice) and denied governments the wish to call an election (Canada).
If she should so decide to prorogue Parliament, even on false advice, then the act is done and no court has the right to review the decisions of the monarch.
Posted by Edward Carson, Monday, 23 September 2019 12:00:20 PM
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