Parliament vs The People.

Posted by Pointman on September 13, 2019 · 27 Comments 

If like me, you’ve been keeping an eye on the non-progress of the UK’s exit from the EU, namely Brexit, you’ve no doubt marvelled at the three year long delaying tactics of the Remain faction within Parliament and outside it. Essentially, the non-essential requirement of negotiating some sort of exit deal from the EU before Brexit could happen was thought up as a delaying tactic.

Some abortion of a deal was cooked up between Theresa May and the EU that would be called Brexit, but to all intents and purposes, would weld the UK into the EU even further while at the same time prohibiting any future exit without EU permission and as a mere afterthought, chopping off all voting rights in all the myriad unelected committees that in reality actually run the EU.

May was always a Remainer and in that capacity, came up with a deal that went directly against the majority will of the nation as clearly expressed in the Brexit referendum.

You can find the pertinent details of the surrender deal May came up with in a previous article. She presented the same “deal” with minor changes three times to Parliament and it was rejected on all three occasions. As usual, fake news, led by state TV in the shape of BBC, was all for the wonderful deal, but the country wasn’t fooled – the country wanted a full-blooded Brexit or they’d empty Parliament of Remainers at the next General Election. I don’t intend to list the various delaying tactics used, but the intent was clearly to drag it out so long, and make the faux negotiations so complex, that the electorate would get totally fed up of the whole issue and by the time the Remainers in Parliament had finally killed off Brexit, the Brexiteers would just be glad to see the back of the whole Gordian Knot.

I tell you now, no such thing has happened.

Instead, an anger has grown not only amongst Brexiteers, but in a sizable faction of people who voted Remain, both of whom perceive, quite rightly, that the directly expressed will of the people is being deliberately sabotaged by Parliament. The UK has in one form or another, functioned as a true representative democracy for more than a century. That means the country is organised into constituencies, each of which votes in an MP whose job is to represent the broad will of the people who voted for them. In effect, the power to make legislation and the important decisions is devolved into the hands of MPs. Parliament has the power.

A referendum, on the other hand, gives the power directly to the people, and MPs are required to act in accordance with the result. The people have the power. Again, no such thing has happened. Instead, a cross-party cabal of MPs, called by several names, but which has become known as the Uniparty, has set itself on crushing the result of the referendum.

In response to that anger, Nigel Farage came out of his retirement from politics and rejoined the Brexit fray to create a new party, the Brexit party, which a week after its inception, was polling 28% of the electorate, but has since dropped back to the mid-teens. As always, you can’t trust polls these days. Witness them saying the referendum would be won massively by the Remainers, the poll of polls on the eve of presidential voting day in America giving Hillary a 98% lead over Trump and May’s snap General Election election result of 2017 supposedly giving her a big lead of what’s become an unelectable neo-Marxist party in the shape of Labour.

They were all wrong and I continue to think the only utility of political polls these days is to act as emergency toilet paper. They appear to be nothing more than a mechanism to feed fake news ammunition in order to influence the outcome of any election.

The situation at the moment is that the Uniparty have seized control of Parliament and using their majority have enacted legislation in the hope of forcing yet another renegotiation with the EU, while at the same time refusing to have a General election, because they know full well that with the mood the country is in, they’d lose heavily. Above and beyond partisan mischief, their loyalty is to a globalist Europe and not to their electorate, never mind the country.

For want of better words, this is a betrayal of democracy, if not outright treason.

The PM, Boris Johnson, has said publically that he’d rather be dead in a ditch than go back to Brussels and start negotiations with the EU again. Their bureaucrats have been caught on camera crowing at how they’d made a cuckold out of Britain and have at last made it a colony of the EU. The deal they’re pushing is complete subjugation to the EU and no voting rights, for what they’re worth anyway with the dictatorial manner in which the EU is run. In their arrogance, they won’t offer any significant amendments to that deal. Why should they? They’re already supplying legal advice to their proxy attack dogs in the Uniparty who’ve hijacked Parliament.

At face value, Boris’ first priority is to extricate Britain from the anti-democratic tentacles of the EU, but that isn’t quite the whole story. It’s an absolute prerequisite to achieving his secondary object, which is to save the Conservative party from being destroyed at the next General Election. If he doesn’t achieve that primary objective to the satisfaction of the country, Farage’s Brexit party will strip both the Conservative and Labour parties of what used to be their reliable bedrock supporters. In that situation, Farage will have the whip hand in forming a coalition government, and be in no doubt, his condition for doing so will be nothing less than the complete Brexit that was voted for by the majority of people.

I’ve mentioned Brexit a lot, but that’s just because it’s become the party political football being kicked around by the Conservative, Labour and Uniparty political factions. It’s become an obsessive point of focus both for the mainstream parties and the commentariat in its various fake news forms. For the ordinary person, Brexit is no longer the central issue.

It’s about teaching Parliament a lesson it’ll never forget. You decided not to listen to us, so we’re going to give you a bloody good hiding next time we get near a poll booth. The blood will be ankle deep. That’s now the issue, and the central one, and the only one, whatever you might be hearing. With the amount of sheer anger directed against the political establishment, who seem to live in that by now familiar bubble where they only talk to themselves, only listen to fake news to gauge how well they’re doing and feel totally free to ignore the wishes of the despised British version of the “deplorables”, whom they regard as backward little Englander dullards. They’re riding for a heavy fall with the electorate.

Boris has a complex political problem to solve, but his defiant phrase of “he’d rather be dead in a ditch” is reminiscent of Churchill at his best. Churchill was by no means an ideal politician, he made some terrible errors of judgement, for which he’ll always be held to account, but at the same time, he was also the man who rammed through a fiercely resistant Parliament the first minimum wage legislation and the man who, when all was lost after the disaster that Dunkirk really was, and Britain stood alone against the seemingly invincible Nazis who’d completely overrun Europe, penned that speech about fighting them on the beaches, the countryside and the towns.

In the circumstances, how any 67 years old man taking office in the midst of such a disaster could show such defiance, resolve and inspire a nation to resist by offering them nothing more than blood, sweat and tears is a tribute to the steadfastness of the very people the Parliamentary elite now think they can safely abuse. That hardy island stock have not gone away. Time will tell fairly soon about Boris, but what’s for sure is that he enjoys the backing of the ordinary person against the Uniparty.

Whatever happens, there is a “back stop”, a phrase that’s bandied around a lot when it comes to Brexit. Under the rules of the Fixed Term Act of 2011, a General Election has to be held at the end of a five year period, if no snap election has been declared within that period. The hope of the Uniparty is that all will have been forgotten by then, but the popular mood is venomous towards Parliament, and a lot of MPs will be looking for jobs in its aftermath.

That General Election has to happen one day, and the revenge taken by the electorate on Westminster will be savage.

©Pointman

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