For the first time in over a century, the UK government have been found to be in contempt of Parliament. It is down to the failure to publish in full, the legalities of the brexit process. The government have now said that it will be published in full tomorrow the 5th December.
The Scottish Parliament have been successful in bringing a case to the European Court of Justice concerning article 50. The ' advisory ' decision that makes it possible for the UK Parliament to be able to withdraw article 50 and automatically remain in the EU. A final decision will be made before Christmas. In reality that will never happen, but it gives an opportunity to hold another referendum. A sort of get out of jail free card.
The Parliamentary debate on the proposed deal to leave the EU has started and is expected to last till Monday 10th December with a vote a day later. I will update the blog about that as the week progresses.
Till next time.
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Monday 3 December 2018
Where to start.
This is my first post for quite a while. The government of the so called "United" Kingdom is in complete disarray. The opposition are no better off. The fact that the Labour party couldn't win the last general election even though Teresa May's Conservative party fought one of the most inept campaigns in history. Jeremy Corbyn couldn't inspire enough voters to produce a Labour victory. That being said, the Tories don't now have an outright majority. They remain in government due to May offering a bribe to a bunch of homophobic, racist and sectarian bigots called the DUP from Northern Ireland.
That's the background to what has transpired since. The most important piece of legislation the UK has had to implement since the 1960s has degenerated into farce and incompetence by a government that puts self interest before proper public service. Of course I'm talking about BREXIT. We are now at the business end of the process and after two years of so called negotiations, we have two choices, take it or leave it, otherwise known as May's cobbled together disaster of a deal or no deal whatsoever. A substantial portion of tory mps have said that they will vote against the deal. There have even been threats to trigger a vote of no confidence in the PM. A five day debate starts tomorrow the 4th of December with a parliamentary vote on the deal on Tuesday 11th December. The outcome is far from certain.
The referendum that triggered BREXIT was won UK wide by the leave side however, Scotland voted remain by 62% to 37%. Northern Ireland also voted remain. Both England and Wales obviously voted leave with only London producing a remain vote. The fact that numerous cases of electoral fraud by the brexiteers were reported and then swept under the carpet has been virtually ignored by the likes of the BBC. Since the referendum the devolved government in Scotland have been almost completely ignored to such an extent that Independence from the UK is very much on the cards. The trending hashtags on Scottish Twitter sites are #indyref2 and #Dissolvetheunion The Scottish branch of the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem party's are in full panic mode.
The upshot is that as I said earlier, the debate starts tomorrow and is televised. I will be watching and will endeavour to post on the days proceedings.
Till next time.
That's the background to what has transpired since. The most important piece of legislation the UK has had to implement since the 1960s has degenerated into farce and incompetence by a government that puts self interest before proper public service. Of course I'm talking about BREXIT. We are now at the business end of the process and after two years of so called negotiations, we have two choices, take it or leave it, otherwise known as May's cobbled together disaster of a deal or no deal whatsoever. A substantial portion of tory mps have said that they will vote against the deal. There have even been threats to trigger a vote of no confidence in the PM. A five day debate starts tomorrow the 4th of December with a parliamentary vote on the deal on Tuesday 11th December. The outcome is far from certain.
The referendum that triggered BREXIT was won UK wide by the leave side however, Scotland voted remain by 62% to 37%. Northern Ireland also voted remain. Both England and Wales obviously voted leave with only London producing a remain vote. The fact that numerous cases of electoral fraud by the brexiteers were reported and then swept under the carpet has been virtually ignored by the likes of the BBC. Since the referendum the devolved government in Scotland have been almost completely ignored to such an extent that Independence from the UK is very much on the cards. The trending hashtags on Scottish Twitter sites are #indyref2 and #Dissolvetheunion The Scottish branch of the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem party's are in full panic mode.
The upshot is that as I said earlier, the debate starts tomorrow and is televised. I will be watching and will endeavour to post on the days proceedings.
Till next time.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)