What was so amazing about the Supreme Court ruling today, the one that declared Johnson’s prorogation of parliament null and void, for me at least, wasn’t the ruling itself but the fact that the decision was unanimous. It was a thumping defeat for the government. Interviewed from New York, the prime minister was bullish in saying that it didn’t matter, we’re still leaving on October 31st no matter what. The reality is somewhat different.
It will be interesting to see if a vote of no confidence takes place before October 31st. It is looking less and less likely due to the fact that Corbyn won’t step aside to allow it to happen. It probably won’t be necessary, but I find the Labour tactics here interesting. I think he should be encouraging a Ken Clarke led Government of National Unity, for his own political purposes I mean. It would split the Conservative party – then again, that’s probably going to happen anyhow.
Johnson will probably lose Dominic Cummings as an advisor soon enough, either because Cummings walks after Johnson stops proceeding as planned or the pressure to sack him from within the Conservative party becomes too great to avoid. Whether his top advisor happens or not, Boris Johnson only has two choices available to him if the GONU led by Clarke or Corbyn or whomever doesn’t usurp him before he gets the chance to choose: resign or ask the EU for an extension. The idea that he can ignore an act of parliament seemed wacky and outlandish before today; after the Supreme Court ruling, it is totally impossible. Beyond the legality of ignoring the Benn Act, politically he will be under massive pressure from members of his own cabinet to follow through, with threats of walk outs and possibly even voting against the government in a vote of no confidence. Johnson will have no real choice but to comply in the end unless he resigns instead.
Johnson and Cummings relied on the weakness of their opponents, something Sun Tzu (one of Cummings’ heroes) would have explicitly not been keen on (“If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle”). It turned out the legislature and the judiciary were not willing to just roll over and let him do whatever the hell he likes. It is very possible that if there is a general election before the end of the year, the people whose will he enjoys citing so much won’t let him do whatever the hell he likes either.
Oh no. We are not talking about a “Government of National Unity” here Nick. What we are taking about is a Government of National Discord – a government cobbled together without any electoral mandate or legitimacy whatever, by a ragbag coalition of politicians whose sole object is to postpone or avoid facing up to and implementing the 2016 referendum result in any shape or form.
Boris Johnson does not have an electoral mandate. The only people who voted for him to be Prime Minister are 90-odd thousand Tory members. He could have tested his support in the House of Commons with a Vote of Confidence on the day he took over from Theresa May, but he did not. He has lost vote after vote in the House of Commons. As Oliver Cromwell said in dismissing the Rump parliament:
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!
We need a new Cromwell to say this to Boris.
We need a new Cromwell to say this to Boris
So why are we not currently having a general election? After all a motion for one was put forward.
Oh yes — because the other parties don’t want one, as they know they will lose.
“Boris Johnson does not have an electoral mandate.”
Oh yes he does. He won the support of more than half of all Tory MPs *and* two-thirds of Conservative party members. That’s more than enough mandate. And the opposition parties haven’t dared put that to the test. I wonder why?
We do not directly elect the prime minister in the UK and nor is the House of Commons some kind of prime ministerial electoral college although, at the moment, you would be forgiven for thinking that it was actually some kind of failing electoral comprehensive in need of special measures.
What the hell does Boris Johnson do now?
Wins an absolutely massive majoriy in the next General Election, I should think.
seems very very like wishful thinking that
Why don’t we find out?
Pray tell me Oracle what will the majority be for the all conquering ottoman
There is only one Sovereign – GOD. The same who (freely!) decreed and conferred vice-regency on man to represent Him on earth in His necessarily invisible absence. As such man was to be the visible manifestation of God’s sovereignty. God crowned man with glory and honour and made him a little lower than the angels. And even though that crown has lost much of it’s lustre, the decree still stands, God unlike men does not and cannot change his mind.
Further, God decreed nationhood. The breakdown of nationhood in the name of globalisation (and ultimate one-world-government) is divine anathema.
What we presently see in UK politics (and within the EU and further afield) is an attempt to destroy nation states in the supposed purpose of a greater good. It is nothing less than an uprising of evil. History is witness to this present day.
In the democratic UK nation, the people are sovereign (under God), their trusted and elected parliamentary representatives simply their voice. THERE CAN BE NO HIGHER AUTHORITY within democracy. Even the Queen is a citizen of the nation. Therefore, the so-called Supreme Court has no democratic jurisdiction – it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing baying to an opposition that goes much deeper than any found in parliament. It needs to be exposed for what it is, an anti-democratic anti-God confederacy to bring down the nation. Unanimous verdict! – of course! A curse on all their houses.
Boris is in deep trouble now. I guess he may hand his resignation today. The country is in a big mess given the short time we have to Brexit deadline. I guess Boris is just another May in a new package. No courage. No initiative. Nothing. They all want locking up and stripped of their wealth what kind of example have they shown over the last 30 year time for the Queen to do her duty for the people and bring all to justice and example must be shown for future generations
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