Posted on 03/14/2019 1:29:13 PM PDT by Twotone
As I write, I happen to be next door to the Canadian House of Commons - which is far from my favorite place. But, at its lowest and most contemptible, Ottawa's House has never screwed over the Commoners the way that of its imperial mother just has in London.
Last night, sixteen days before Britain supposedly leaves the European Union in accord with the people's vote of three years ago, their elected representatives voted by 312 to 308 to rule out a "no-deal" Brexit - ie, a straightforward walkaway - ever.
So the EU now has no incentive ever to reach a deal with Britain. The appalling "deal" Theresa May "negotiated" was for a wretched and humiliating vassal status with Brussels. Because for the Eurocrats, what matters is to teach the lesson the ingrate voters that you can check "Out" any time you like but you can never leave. Mrs May's deal was meant to be a message to antsy Continentals that the citizenry's impertinence must never happen again.
When that flopped, Brussels moved to the next stage - not that Brexit must never happen again, but that Brexit must never happen, period. And, to their shame, the people's representatives at Westminster have colluded in their subversion of the people's will.
So last night the elites rose up and overthrew the masses. Of course, they have also destroyed their own reputation, and that of England as the Mother of Parliaments. But in a sense that also makes the larger point - that the world is too complex to be left to self-government by the people's representatives, so best to leave it to Brussels.
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I really love the US constitution. :)
Vote to have something done and hand it over to Parliament to rubber stamp but they totally screw it up
EU can’t be blamed for any of this.
Just leave.
” I really love the US constitution. :) “
Most of us do, but there is a serious attack and subversion of it going on right now.
The outcome is Not certain.
312 to 308 is very slim and should easily be overturned.
This vote should serve to steel the will of the Brexit camp.
The history of shared currencies amongst sovereign nations is that the currency collapses due to political differences.
The EU is trying to destroy sovereignty and create a United States of Europe before that happens.
But what they have created is a United Nations of Europe, with all its divisions, futility, bureaucracy and waste.
Even if Brexit is somehow sabotaged or stopped, it will eventually happen as the EU will collapse when the euro does.
They only have to buy or blackmail a few politicians. The rest are easily intimidated and will bend their knees for free.
Farage needs to run for Prime Minister.
The EU is more like the Fourth Reich
Pretty much our entire Congress is blackmailed.
Therasa May wins. I am certain that she has deliberately sabotaged the whole deal.
Yes and no. I think they need a total redo, but the problem is that May has been such a poor negotiator that the EU will but scoff.
I happened to be in London when the Brexit initiative passed, and several Brits told me that they had voted for it just to make a statement, because they thought it wouldn’t pass.
There should have been a plan in place before the vote. And in any case, a lot of the things they thought were voting against - such as Muslim accommodation and speech crime laws - were actually part of British law and the EU was not involved.
The feckless Brits cave again. Sick and tired of their arrogant snobbery. Let them suffer some more until the bubble bursts, which it will. Two men in England have brains. Farage and one other back bencher.
EU not involved in speech crime? Articles 11 and 13 prove otherwise.
But this whole thing looks a little ridiculous.
It's like a couple decides to split; but one doesn't want it to end, and the one who does want to leave can't decide whether to just walk away, or to try and decide what possessions they're going to bring and what they're going to leave.
And rather than come to an agreement, it looks like they're going to stay together and live in separate rooms as if the break-up doesn't matter.
The sad thing, it's not a dysfunctional couple, but a dysfunctional nation.
The British laws are much stronger. They became that way after Britain (or at least England) became Muslim dominated. Muslims aren’t the majority, but they’ve reached well beyond the 10% point at which they start taking over. Most other EU countries have a lower Muslim population.
Not to mention the Black Friday deals on bulk ammunition, with free shipping and a rebate.
The British equivalent of the wall debate — the people want it, the Establishment will do whatever it can to prevent it.
Paging Guy Fawkes...
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