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Old 08-09-2017, 13:46   #2
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Re: Brexit discussion

For those of a legalistic mind here's a dissection of the Withdrawal Bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4OZS_HMQ2o

Government are trying to play games with standing committees to ensure they get their way - offer some compromise on the Bill, render it pointless by trying to rig committees.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...aafcf68a04?9fg

Robert Peston of ITV looks into these here: https://www.facebook.com/pestonitv/p...13633722294697

Ending with this:

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Having lost her majority in the general election she chose to call, for a while May talked the talk of reflecting the will of the people by trying to work consensually with MPs of other parties.

It is now a case of consensus conshmensus. With the aid of her most important minister, the wily chief whip, Williamson, she will attempt to rule by diktat via the gaming of parliamentary rules.

She has returned back from holiday with the spirit of the Venezuelan approach to democracy seemingly coursing through her veins.
Seems to make a mockery of demanding sovereignty and taking back control for our Parliament if we're going to simply hand it to appointed ministers. It's not much different from the EU commission - they were appointed to positions of power by elected representatives, so are ministers. MPs are elected to represent constituencies only, they are supposed to have to go through Parliament to produce legislation.

One thought: under the Bill there is nothing stopping a member of the House of Lords from being placed into the cabinet and bypassing Parliament entirely.

Another thought: would those who think all this is necessary and support the Conservatives in this trust Jeremy Corbyn and Labour with these powers? There is zero guarantee that the Conservatives will still be a minority government by 2019.
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