I came across an interesting article from Vernon Bogdanor in
The Guardian this week. He makes the interesting point that MPs could
connive to block Brexit indefinitely.
This is what he had to say:
“. . . were Parliament to pass legislation
preventing Britain leaving the EU without a deal, Brexit could be delayed
forever, since the Commons would then be free to reject every deal presented to it”.
He also writes:
“ Looking at the sorry
performance of the House of Commons elected in 2017, it is difficult to avoid remembering Winston Churchill’s condemnation of the parliaments of the 1930s as being “
decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift,
solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”. Parliament has shown itself not to be the
solution to Brexit but the problem.”
Here is a link to the article:
Meanwhile, on a similar theme, this was my favourite letter
of the month taken from the August 24 edition of The Week. It was originally
published in The Sunday Times.
Getting what you voted for.
To The Sunday Times
Michael Heseltine and Betty Boothroyd get into an awful
lather about the “subversion” of Parliament as they attempt to stop us leaving
the EU.
They overlook the facts that MPs voted in favour of holding a
referendum; that the majority of MPs were elected on manifestos that pledged to
honour the result of that referendum; that MPs voted to trigger Article 50 in
the knowledge that it committed us to leaving; and that it was MPs who voted
down the deal that was negotiated with the EU – on three occasions.
If the result of all this is the UK leaving on 31 October
with no deal, that is the result of decisions made by Parliament. Where is the subversion?
Eileen Haxby, Harrogate.
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